The parliamentary debate on the Government's draft law on spatial planning began after a break of several hours. Parliament Speaker Ivan Brajović announced that Minister Pavle Radulović will only explain the content of the law today, and that the discussion on it will be continued at one of the next sessions.
Brajović said that the date of that session will be determined later, and that in the meantime, the competent parliamentary committees will deal with the content of the law. The source of "Vijesti" from the Assembly said that the controversial provisions between representatives of the Government and the parties from the ruling coalition, which oppose the passing of such a law, will be harmonized in the coming days "on the fly".
The session of the Parliamentary Committee for Tourism and Spatial Planning was canceled because, as President Petar Ivanović (DPS) said, the proponents of the amendment did not appear at the session, so there was no quorum. He said that the board will not sit again today.
The coalition partners of the DPS, the Liberal Party (LP), the Bosniak Party (BS), the Croatian Civic Initiative (HGI) and Forca have proposed amendments in which they object to the law's excessive centralization in the field of spatial planning and condition support for the amendments.
The debate in the Parliament of Montenegro on the Government's Draft Law on Spatial Planning, which was supposed to start at 11 a.m., was postponed to 13 p.m., after which a collegium was held.
It was announced that the session is expected at 18 pm, or it could be postponed until tomorrow.
If the Parliament does not accept the amendments of the coalition partners of the DPS today - the Bosniak Party, the Liberal Party and the Croatian Civic Initiative, the government's Proposal for a Law on Spatial Planning and Building Construction, which has caused opposition from the lay and expert public, could be rejected.
In the past practice of the parliament, this rarely happened.
The SD announced that it will decide during the debate on the proposal, which the DPS supports.
MPs from the Liberal Party (LP), the Croatian Civic Initiative (HGI) and the Bosniak Party (BS) announced that their vote would depend on the (non)acceptance of the amendment. There are no proposed amendments on the parliament's website yet.
The Assembly has 81 deputies, and the ruling coalition has 42. This means that without Nimanbegu, the adoption of the law proposed by the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism depends on one deputy of the ruling alliance. The most controversial part of the bill, as was heard yesterday at the Committee, is the centralization of the spatial planning system, that is, the taking away of the municipalities' powers in that area and transferring them to the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism. Minister Pavle Radulović said that this law only deprives the parliaments of local self-governments of their right to vote on the document, while giving the municipalities themselves significantly greater rights in spatial planning.
"Municipalities will formally have much greater rights to influence the text of the plan under the new law than is provided for in the existing law. Due to the new law, they will not be harmed, their income will be increased, and their expenses will be reduced because the administration has been transferred to the Ministry", said Radulović.
He claims that with the new law, it will be known "at every moment where it went wrong" and who is responsible for it.
Bosniak Party MP Ervin Ibrahimović told "Vijesti" that they will make a final decision at today's session, depending on the discussion. According to the MP, BS has submitted two amendments and expects them to be accepted.
The first concerns the return of inspection competences to the Directorate for Inspection Affairs, because the law stipulates that they should be taken over by the Ministry. The head of the Directorate for Inspection Affairs is the staff of BS Alija Košut.
The second amendment stipulates the extension of the deadline for monitoring the implementation of the law from 90 days to three years. Ibrahimović says that the deadline from the Draft Law is too short.
Andrija Popović (LP) told "Vijesta" that due to the disputed "centralization of the state" today they will try to improve the final version of that law through amendments. "Our eventual support will depend on that," Popović told "Vijesta".
Adrijan Vuksanović (HGI) said that the support of his club will depend on the (non)support of numerous amendments that will be submitted today.
At the board meeting, Genci Nimanbegu asked the minister why his department did not foresee that local self-governments have the same principle of adopting plans as attributed to the state. "Why would the ministry be more efficient than the local self-government," he asked Nimanbegu.
Unacceptable proposal
Most of the opposition parties called on the deputies yesterday not to vote for the Bill. The Citizens' Movement URA announced that "through Radulović, someone wants to uncontrollably make plans that will make Montenegro the prey of insatiable profiteers." "This is an unacceptable proposal, which points to the suspicion that its goal is to facilitate and speed up the behind-the-scenes tearing up of the most valuable parts of the territory of Montenegro, such as Buljarica, Kraljičina plaža, Boka, Velika plaža, Solana, promised by your leaders to who knows whom and under known conditions only to them," they state in their address to MPs Dritan Abazović and Neđeljko Rudović.
The SNP assessed that the solutions in the proposed law only enable the consolidation of monopolies and additional centralization of power in the state.
The member of the SDP in the Assembly of the Capital City, Jadranka Vojinović, called on the deputies from the Capital City to vote against the adoption of the law today and thus contribute to preventing the adoption of this "freakish legal text".
The mayors of Budva, Kolašin, Kotor, Plav and Novi raised their voices
The mayors of Budva, Kolašin, Kotor, Plav and Herceg Novi, where the opposition is in power, appealed to the members of the Assembly to withhold support for the adoption of the proposed law. They claim that the Proposed Solutions represent a direct attack on the position of local self-government units provided for by the Constitution and the European Charter on Local Self-Government. , in a significant part, reduce to the level of local communities", it is written in the joint statement. They believe that this law would represent a dangerous concentration of power in an individual, with the risk of abuse of power and unforeseeable consequences to the detriment of the local population and the public interest in general.
SO Kotor yesterday made a decision opposing the adoption of the law.
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