HRA wrote to the Constitutional Court: Decide on the proposal for priority decision-making on benefits for mothers

In the same letter, the HRA repeated the proposals for increasing the transparency of the court's work and decision-making efficiency within a reasonable time, which were sent to the previous president of the Constitutional Court, Desanka Lopičić, in 2014.
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mothers' protest of the Parliament, Photo: Savo Prelevic
mothers' protest of the Parliament, Photo: Savo Prelevic
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Ažurirano: 10.03.2017. 10:43h

Action for Human Rights (HRA) today, in a letter to the President of the Constitutional Court, Dragoljub Drašković, appealed to the Constitutional Court to urgently decide on the proposal for priority decision-making in cases regarding the constitutionality of the law on benefits for mothers, and to publish that decision.

Drašković previously said that legal solutions related to mothers of three or more children, as well as provisions regarding the reduction of benefits, are not a priority of the Constitutional Court and there is no legal deadline for deciding on them.

Mothers with that and more children are protesting in front of the Parliament of Montenegro and demanding that the amendments to the Law on Social and Child Protection, which reduced their lifetime allowances by 22 and 25 percent, be repealed. Fees were reduced from 336 euros to 264, as well as from 192 to 144 euros.

"Given the great interest of the public in deciding these cases, we also appealed that they be discussed at a public session, which should be announced in a timely manner. The appeal was motivated by the statement of the President of the Constitutional Court in the RTCG program by author Duška Pejović, on March 8, 2017 , that these cases "do not have priority", as well as that the Constitutional Court in the case regarding the reduction of fees "will try to solve it as soon as possible", although, as far as the public knows, the Constitutional Court did not rule on the proposal that these cases, i.e. , especially the second subject, will be put into operation as a matter of priority," the HRA press release states.

In the same letter, the HRA repeated the proposals for increasing the transparency of work and the efficiency of the decision-making of that court within a reasonable time, which were sent to the previous president of the Constitutional Court, Desanka Lopičić, in 2014.

"We asked for decisions on constitutional appeals to be published urgently, because only two are currently available on the website of the Constitutional Court, despite the Rules of Procedure of the Constitutional Court, which prescribes that the decisions and rulings of the Constitutional Court are published on the website as a rule. It is necessary to provide a search engine the decision on constitutional appeals according to the characteristic words and article of the Constitution that was violated. The HRA also requested that it be ensured that constitutional appeals are decided upon in the order of receipt, and that priority processing of cases in accordance with the Rules of Procedure be adequately justified, bearing in mind that the work of the Constitutional Court includes constitutional appeals filed in 2017, although we know for sure that the appeals filed in 2013 and 2014 on behalf of victims of war crimes have not been resolved. follow the written explanation", said s.

In the letter, they also requested that the court sessions be opened to the public and that the dates of the sessions be published in a timely manner with a list and brief description of the cases to be decided, as well as that public hearings be held more often.

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