The joint proposal of the members of the Committee for Comprehensive Electoral Reform is to transfer the work to working groups, and to schedule Committee sessions when they have concrete results.
This was announced by the co-chair of that parliamentary body, Nikola Rakočević from the Democratic Party of Socialists, at today's session where the deputies were determining the work plan.
The second co-chairman, Vasilije Čarapić from the Europe Now Movement, pointed out that a great deal of reform has been done in the previous period - the adoption of the law on elections in one day, the professionalization of the election commission, and the increase in quotas for women.
As he added, it was previously defined that the Committee has three working groups - one that deals with the drafting of the Law on the Election of Councilors and Representatives, the second that will deal with defining the Law on the Voter Register, the Law on Permanent and Temporary Residence Registers, analyzing the implementation of the Law on Identity Cards, analyzing the implementation of the Law on Montenegrin Citizenship, and the third that will deal with the drafting of the Law on Political Parties, the Law on the President and defining the Code of Ethics for Conduct in the Election Campaign, and that they will also include representatives of the non-governmental sector.
Rakočević said that there is time to deliver the proposals within the stipulated deadlines.
Representative of the NGO Center for Democratic Tradition (CDT), Dragan Koprivica, said that there is a standard that "nothing changes a year before the elections" and called for work to begin on Friday, adding that former Interior Minister Sergej Sekulović should be invited to the working groups because his department worked on the Voter Register Law, as well as former MP Branka Bošnjak because she was part of the Committee's working group in the previous convocation.
Čarapić said that each working group must draw out the ODIHR's recommendations, and that this should be a priority in its work.
Rakočević said that the joint proposal is to schedule the Committee meetings when they have concrete results, and to transfer the work to working groups.
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