Seven candidates applied for the fourth competition for the president and members of the Central Election Commission

Seven candidates applied for the fourth public competition for the election of the president and four members of the Central Election Commission (CEC).

Sanida Kojić, Boško Nenezić, Muhamed Đokaj and Amer Šukurica applied for the position of president and member of the CEC, and Abid Đozović, Alija Beganović and Boris Vukašinović applied for the position of members only, the Parliamentary Commission for the Conduct of Elections of the President and Members of the CEC announced.

"The Commission will, after the findings and applications that may be submitted by mail in the coming days, as well as after receiving information from the competent state authorities, in accordance with the law, as soon as possible, make a decision on compiling an appropriate list of candidates who meet the requirements set out in Articles 24 and 25 of the Law on the Election of Councilors and Representatives," the Commission announced.

The Commission published the fourth advertisement for the CEC at the end of April, because it concluded that there were no conditions to submit a proposal for a candidate for the president and members of the CEC to the Administrative Committee of the Parliament. The members of the Commission proposed Boško Nenezić for the president of the CEC, but were unable to propose candidates because none of them achieved a sufficient number of points (according to the prescribed criteria). The Commission, based on the Law on the Election of Councilors and Representatives, is obliged to compile a list of candidates for the president and members of the CEC, which it cannot do without proposing a candidate for the head of the CEC.

The first advertisement for filling the CEC position failed at the end of last year, when the Commission members unanimously decided that the then only candidate for CEC president did not meet the legal criteria.

The second competition "fell" at the end of February, when it was announced that no candidate had "sufficiently" fulfilled the criteria on the basis of which they could be nominated for president.

The third public call was announced in mid-March.

According to the amendments to the Law on the Election of Councilors and Representatives adopted last summer, the State Election Commission should be transformed into the CEC.