President of the Municipality of Pljevlja Dario Vranes announced that he would remove the objections and again ask the Government for approval to declare October 27, which coincides with the religious holiday of Holy Friday, as the day of the Municipality.
The remarks were pointed out by the Ministry of Public Administration, after the decision of the local Assembly to declare October 27 as the day of the Municipality, instead of November 20, which had been celebrated for decades, the day when the partisans liberated the city in 1944...
"Although we initially received a response from the minister (Marasha) Dukaja that the documentation is complete, the procedures have been properly implemented and that there is nothing disputed, after receiving the answer we will remove the objections", said Vraneš for "Vijesti".
The Ministry of Public Administration recently informed the President of the Municipal Assembly of Pljevlja Jovan Tošić that there were no assumptions that the Government was considering the request because the procedure prescribed by the Law and the Statute of the Municipality of Pljevlja and the Rules of Procedure of the local parliament was not followed in the decision-making process.
In the response of the Ministry of Public Administration, it is stated that the RIA form, the report of the public hearing, the acts of the state institutions of Montenegro on the events that decided the proposer to propose that the holiday of the Municipality of Pljevlja be October 27 were not submitted in the supplement to the documentation.
"Also, from the submitted documentation, it follows that the Committee for Statute and Regulations considered the Proposal for a Decision on Amendments to the Draft Statute of the Municipality of Pljevlja, and that with 2 votes 'for' and 3 votes 'against', it was established that the Decision on Amendments to the Draft of the statute of the municipality of Pljevlja is not included in the agenda due to the lack of a legal basis for its adoption", the Ministry's response states, among other things.
They remind that the provisions of the Law on Local Self-Government stipulate that before adopting plans and programs for certain areas in the municipality, urban projects, budgets and general acts that determine the rights and obligations of citizens, the municipality should ensure the participation of the interested public in decision-making by conducting a public hearing procedure .
"The public hearing cannot last less than 15 days. Bearing in mind all the above, we point out to the Assembly of the Municipality of Pljevlja that in the process of passing the decision in question, the procedure prescribed by the Law, the Statute of the Municipality of Pljevlja and the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly of the Municipality of Pljevlja was not followed. Also, on this occasion, we point out the position of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro expressed in the Decision, U II no. 17 and 18-15: by-laws must be in accordance with the Constitution and the law, not only in terms of material (content of the contested act), but also in terms of formal legality, which dictates that the legal act must be passed by an authorized body and according to the procedure prescribed for its bringing”.
Oština previously submitted to the Ministry the decision on joining the drafting of amendments to the Statute, with an explanation, the Decision on the establishment of the Commission for drafting and proposing amendments to the Statute, the report from the session of the Committee on the Statute and Regulations at which the Proposal for a Decision on Amendments to the Draft was discussed of the Statute of the Municipality of Pljevlja, draft Decision on Amendments to the Statute of the Municipality of Pljevlja, with explanation, explanation of academics Slavenka Terzića on the occasion of determining the date for marking the Day of the Municipality of Pljevlja.
At the end of September last year, the councilors of the Pljeval Assembly adopted a decision on changes to the Statute, which change the day of the municipality, by a majority of votes. Councilors of New Serbian Democracy, Democratic People's Party, Movement for Pljevlja, United Montenegro, SNP and three Democrats voted for the changes. Democratic Councilor, Milojica Tešović, he was reserved. The councilors of the DPS, the Bosniak Party and the councilor of the Civic Movement URA were against, while the councilors of the Movement Europe now left the hall before the vote...
The Municipality Day, November 20, was recently celebrated more modestly than in previous years. Vraneš also attended the formal session, but he did not speak, which was the practice in previous years when the work results were usually summarized between holidays.
Before the session, he made a statement in which he stated that the people of Pljevlja celebrate the Municipal Day the way they have to, the way it is imposed on them, and not the way they want.
"The will of the citizens of Pljevlja, shown through the decision of the directly elected representatives of the citizens-members of the local parliament, was ignored that the day of the municipality should be October 27, the day of liberation from the occupiers, from Turkey in 1912, and from Austria-Hungary in 1918. "It obviously bothers someone that October 27 is the holiday of Holy Friday for the Orthodox, while at the same time it doesn't bother them that November 20 is also the day of Sandžak, a kind of paraterritorial area unsuccessfully created in 1943," said Vraneš, an official of the New Serbian Democracy.
He said that he expects that in the near future, October 27 will be celebrated as the day of the municipality: "We have to be patient, we know how all those who imposed decisions on the citizens against their will went, especially in the recent past. Be that as it may, we must be patient, I believe that the will of the citizens will have to be respected at some point and that in the near future the municipal day will be celebrated on October 27".
Unlike last year, this year Vraneš did not lay flowers and light candles on the monument to those who died in the fight against fascism on Stražica.
Last year, he lit the candles about twenty meters away, at the place of the pit where the partisans allegedly threw 25 Chetniks from Pljevlja.
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