Members of the Parliament of Montenegro today did not adopt the agenda, the only item of which was the proposal by President Jakov Milatović to elect lawyer Mirjana Vučinić as a judge of the Constitutional Court.
59 MPs voted - 21 voted in favor, 38 abstained. There were no votes against.
To be elected to that position, she needed the support of 54 out of a total of 81 MPs. If she did not receive a majority, there would be a second round of voting, in which she would need 49 votes from MPs.
According to earlier writings by "Vijesti", Vučinić had little chance of being elected to the position. The Democrats declared that they would not support the proposal, and according to unofficial information, she did not even have the support of the strongest ruling party - the Europe Now Movement (PES).
Milatović's proposal for her election has been in the "drawer" of the highest legislative chamber since mid-May, and in early September he requested that the Assembly vote on it at an extraordinary session.
The Constitutional Court is operating with a truncated composition, considering that it currently has four out of the seven judges that the institution should have in total.
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