They vote again for the director of the Labor Fund

At the beginning of the week, the Board of Directors of the Labor Fund will have to decide again on the first man of that institution, because they were recently ordered to do so by the Government's Appeals Commission.

The labor fund has been without a full-time director for two years, and numerous competitions ended with the election of an acting manager and dismissals or resignations in the Board of Directors.

The Special State Prosecutor's Office is dealing with numerous illegalities in that institution in the previous two years, and recently the Special Police Department requested that additional documentation be submitted to them.

The Appeals Commission recently overturned the decision of the Management Board from December last year, when that body assessed that a director should be chosen, because none of the candidates received the required number of votes.

The first-ranked candidate in the competition of the Human Resources Administration appealed against such a decision Ana Mrdovic.

"Examining the legality of the contested decision, at the behest of the Commission, in the process of its adoption, the first-instance authority committed a violation of the rules of administrative procedure, because the explanation does not contain reasons that, given the established factual situation, refers to the decision in the enacting clause, and the reasons given are unclear and unintelligible", it is stated, among other things, in the decision of the Appeals Commission.

In the last decision, it is recalled that the Labor Fund first decided to choose the third-ranked candidate in the contested competition Vesna Ćalović, but that even then the Commission appreciated that Mrdović's complaint was justified.

Ćalović was the state secretary in the Ministry of Public Administration when Suzana Pribilović was the minister in Duško Marković's government. Mrdović was acting director of the Labor Fund during the mandate of the 42nd Government of Montenegro.

"In the retrial, the first-instance authority conducted an interview with Mrdović and Ćalović, and obtained a decision not to appoint a director due to the fact that none of the candidates received the required majority of the votes of the members of the Board of Directors... That finding, according to the Commission, is not a sufficient reason for non-election ..." is stated in the decision of the Governmental Appeals Commission.

The board of directors should have nine members, but at the moment there are eight.