The state does not want to strategically solve the issue of discrimination against minority peoples, but the Democratic Party of Socialists often proves that it manages employment processes in the state administration by making various promises to inter-party agreements, according to the Civic Alliance (GA). community in state bodies in Montenegro.
"The data we obtained through that research showed that the ethnic structure of employees is not adequate and does not correspond to the ethnic structure of society, and the data published by the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights show that nothing has changed," said the coordinator of the good management program, Edin Koljenović. . He said that it is worrying that there is still no progress in solving this issue.
According to Koljenović, official data from the last census show that more than six thousand members of the Roma population live in Montenegro (about one percent) and that they are not represented in any of the leading positions. "It is even more drastic that out of over 31 thousand members of the Albanian population in Montenegro, only one member of that nationality is employed in leading positions in the executive branch," Koljenović said.
He added that Montenegro has not yet developed adequate ways to measure the national structure of employees in state bodies, and that this should be done, without at the same time the measurement being in conflict with human rights standards. "Those methods must provide broad, precise data and statistics, which will be of crucial importance for evaluating and monitoring the ethnic structure of employees and the extent that they exist, then the positions they have in the hierarchy and the tendencies that are at work in employment in public authorities at all local government levels," explained Koljenović.
GA points out that it must be a clear obligation of the Government to respect the Constitution and the law defining affirmative action and the right to equal representation, stating that it must not be the subject of inter-party agreements and political trade without long-term strategies. In this way, as it is evaluated, the message is sent that the state does not want to solve this issue strategically, but that the strongest ruling party often proves that it manages the employment processes in the state administration by making various promises to inter-party agreements.
"Thus, he is abusing the employment processes defined by the clear procedures of the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees, which should lead to depoliticization and professionalization in state administration bodies, the judiciary, healthcare and the education system," Koljenović stated. He said that equal access to the right to employment and proportional representation in state bodies of all ethnic communities, in all multi-ethnic societies an indicator of the democracy of the society.
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