Laković Drašković: Medenica's third mandate is a matter of personnel and institutional development policy, not constitutionality

The Director General of the Directorate for Justice in the Ministry of Justice, Marijana Laković Drašković, said that the third mandate of the President of the Supreme Court, Vesna Medenica, is a matter of personnel and institutional development policy, not a matter of constitutionality.

Answering the question about Medenica's third mandate, to which the European Commission stated in a new non-paper that it was not in accordance with the Constitution and laws, she said that an expert opinion had been given on it.

"The expert position on the issue of the number of mandates and the prohibition of retroactive application was given by the largest institutional and professional authorities in our country. This position was taken by all members of the Judicial Council. On the other hand, there is an opinion that it is not good for the development of institutions and personnel that the same officials have multiple mandates ", said Laković Drašković on today's conference on the occasion of the publication of "non paper".

As she added, Minister of Justice Zoran Pažin also agreed with such an assessment, recently in the Assembly answering the psolanik's questions.

"So the legal position of the competent institutions that there was no unconstitutional third mandate is clear, and whether it is better for the first development of the institutions and the development of the personnel in them that the most experienced ones do not get more management mandates, but that the personnel are replaced, that is again a question of personnel policy and institutional development, not a question of constitutionality," Laković Drašković said.