European Union Kotor: After MPA confirms that the law was violated, other councilors should vote to shorten the mandate of the Municipal Assembly

Now that we have confirmation that the law was violated and that the Mayor was not elected within the legal deadline, we hope that the other councilors will also vote to shorten their mandate, the municipal board of the European Union of Kotor announced.

"Confirmation has also arrived that Kotor does not have a mayor. Namely, the Ministry of Public Administration confirmed that the initiative of the opposition councilors was justified and legally founded," the statement said.

The European Union made its statement after the Ministry of Public Administration assessed that the Kotor Municipal Assembly should make a decision to shorten its mandate, while the Mayor of the Municipality, Vladimir Jokić, subsequently accused that government department of having, in cooperation with the DPS, interpreted the law contrary to the positions of the Administrative Court, the Supreme Court of Montenegro, and the European Court of Human Rights.

"Let's all restore law and order, which have long been foreign words in Kotor. After all, all councilors have been denied the legally guaranteed right to elect the executive branch," the European Union said.