Croatian Civic Initiative (HGI) MP Adrijan Vuksanović said that the DUA-HGI parliamentary group will support Mugoša for Constitutional Court judge.
He said that by the time the vote is held at the club meeting, it will be decided how to respond to the second candidate.
Boris Mugoša (SD) said that Nikola Mugoša will probably be elected, and that he hopes that he will justify the trust of the deputies.
"I wish the other candidate good luck, even if he is not elected. I see that the clubs are having intra-party discussions," said Mugoša.
In his closing remarks, Milatović said that of all the candidates considered by the Assembly for the new composition of the Constitutional Court, Krstonijević is the candidate with the longest judicial tenure.
The search is over, and the work will continue tomorrow.
The head of the Bosniak Party (BS) club, Amer Smailović, complained that there are no representatives of the Bosniak people among the candidates for judge of the Constitutional Court.
"We are not asking for anything that does not belong to us, but what is stipulated by the Constitution and the law," said Smailović.
Independent Club MP Radinka Ćinćur said that Krstonijević had steadily built his career, and that his biography shows that he is "one of the steadfast professionals on whom society rests."
"Doctor Nikola Mugoša is a young professional who deserves the respect of the entire Montenegrin society. We need such professionals in order to progress as a society," said Ćinćur.
Democratic Montenegro MP Nikola Rovčanin said that the Constitutional Committee unanimously proposed Mugoša, because he met the professional criteria and the fact that he does not have any political influence, that he has a high academic title and that so far as head of the State Election Commission (SEC), he has acted professionally, "neither to the detriment nor to the benefit of any political party."
He said that at the club's meeting, they will very soon make a decision on how to express their opinion on the second candidate for judge of the Constitutional Court - Krstonijević.
Members of Parliament are debating the election of a judge of the Constitutional Court.
The President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, has nominated Predrag Krstonijević, a judge of the Higher Court in Podgorica, as a judge of the Constitutional Court. As he stated in his explanation, he has references that indicate that if elected, he will perform the function of a Constitutional Court judge professionally.
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The Constitutional Committee nominated the former president of the State Election Commission (SEC), Nikola Mugoš.
According to the Constitution, the judges of the Constitutional Court, whose mandate lasts 12 years, are elected and dismissed by the Parliament. A qualified majority, i.e. a two-thirds majority of all deputies (at least 54 votes) is required for the election of a judge of the Constitutional Court in the first round. If this majority is not achieved, in the second round of voting, after 30 days, the judge may be elected by a three-fifths majority (at least 49).
The head of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) parliamentary group, Danijel Živković, said that so far there have been excellent candidates with over 20 years of experience, and that now we have reached a situation where people who are 42 or 43 years old are being elected as judges of the Constitutional Court, who will still be able to make decisions in the next 12 years, and by then two or three governments will have changed.
He said that DPS gave support to Nikola Mugoša at the Constitutional Committee, and that it would declare itself that way at the vote.
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