Mugoša: We will not accept that the parliamentary majority selects a candidate for judge of the Constitutional Court and imposes that we vote for him

Social Democrat MP Boris Mugoša said that he would not accept that the parliamentary majority would elect a candidate for judge of the Constitutional Court and then impose that he must be voted for.

Mugoša was one of the participants in the meeting between Prime Minister Milojko Spajić and representatives of parliamentary parties regarding the election of judges to the Constitutional Court.

"In the previous period, there was a pretense of dialogue or situations where that dialogue was absent. Whether the mistakes will be corrected through dialogue, we will see. The will to the narrative exists, we will see if it will be in the future. The situation like during the last election should not be repeated. We, as the opposition, do not accept that the majority chooses a candidate, so they impose that we have to vote for him. In that sense, I hope that this meeting served to change the negative practice and to start having a dialogue," said Mugoša.

As he added, judges are not elected for the EU, but for the citizens.

He pointed out that Montenegro should enter the European Union as a country that has elementary standards regarding meritocracy, and that many proposals in the parliament do not correspond to that principle.

"Time until the New Year - you will soon see if this from the meeting made sense. Just because someone has 53 votes does not mean that those votes from the opposition do not represent the citizens. We have data that nine candidates have applied for the position, the president's proposal... We have about 70 laws that need to be adopted, I hope that this practice will end. You remember the IBAR law when we had to change many things subsequently due to quick adoption," Mugoša said.

He pointed out that his concern is that, if the laws are passed by the end of the year, what will happen when they begin to be implemented.

"We cannot discuss 70 laws within 10 days. I hope that the majority will accept our suggestion that we select the most important laws from the citizens' perception and hold a slightly longer discussion about them. The days are ahead of us and all this we are talking about sounds nice, but practice will show who truly stood for what they were talking about, and who can use these events to score political points. I think it is very disgusting if someone wants to score points on these topics because then they are essentially not for the European integration process and I hope that citizens will recognize that," he said.