The Minister of Sustainable Development and Tourism Pavle Radulović scheduled a meeting for Thursday, to which he invited the mayors of Podgorica and Cetinje, the presidents of other municipalities and officials in the Directorate for Inspection Affairs to discuss the implementation of the law.
That regulation was adopted on Saturday in the Assembly despite the great opposition of part of the public, and until last night it was not published in the "Službeni list", that is, it did not come into force.
According to "Vijesti" information, the presidents of the three coastal municipalities of Budva, Kotor and Herceg Novi, Dragan Krapović, Vladimir Jokić and Stevan Katić from the ranks of the Democrats of Montenegro, will not go to that meeting. They had previously strongly opposed the content of the law because it excludes local self-governments from the area of spatial planning, but the Ministry stuck to the centralization of decision-making, claiming that it brings order to the country.
In the letter, Radulović reminded that the Parliament of Montenegro adopted the Law on Spatial Planning and Building Construction. "In order to reach an agreement on the implementation of the law, a meeting is being scheduled," the letter stated.
The members of the Assembly adopted the Government's Bill, with the minimum number of votes of the ruling coalition - that is, as many as were necessary to be adopted (41 out of 81), while Force representative Genci Nimanbegu was against.
Centralization of decision-making power, deprivation of the rights of local self-governments and citizens, non-compliance with the Constitution of Montenegro and other legal acts are just some of the major objections to the draft law, which the professional and lay public have expressed recently.
The law has been called a tycoon law, because it opens the door to corruption and the further destruction of the most valuable untouched sites on the Budva Riviera.
SDP will write a constitutional initiative
The SDP announced that it will propose that the opposition MPs submit a request for an assessment of the constitutionality of the Law on Spatial Planning and Building Construction, as fundamentally unconstitutional, because it takes powers from representative bodies directly elected by the people. SDP spokesman Mirko Stanić said that he will ask for the annulment of the Law because one of the main principles of the European legal tradition in this area is that the representatives of citizens always have the authority to regulate the space in which they live.
Stanić assessed that every autocracy wants to turn ownership of the party into ownership of the land of every citizen of Montenegro. "They destroyed state property and state land, and now they want to continue the pohara policy on the personal property of the citizens of Montenegro," announced Stanić. He said that SDP stopped the Law on Expropriation a few years ago, which they then called a law of Stalinist character.
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