On the agenda of the first session of the first regular session of the Ulcinj Municipal Assembly, the councilors will have proposals for decisions on amendments to the Decision on social and child protection rights and decisions on amendments to the Decision on the formation of working bodies of the Assembly. Also, the Assembly will decide on the proposed solution for the formation of a commission for awarding the honorary citizen of Ulcinj.
The President of the Ulcinj Municipal Council, Ardijan Mavrić, scheduled the session for Thursday, March 28.
The session is a prelude to the next, festive one, which will be held on April 6, on the occasion of Ulcinj Day. Since the end of the last century, instead of November 26, which was celebrated as Municipality Day for decades, in commemoration of the date when the southernmost city was liberated from the occupiers in 1944, Ulcinj celebrates the first Saturday in April, which symbolizes the end of the olive harvest, the departure of sailors to ships and the beginning of the season.
Meanwhile, after addressing the relevant state and municipal institutions, long-time political and NGO activist and former MP Muhamet Nika addressed the Delegation of the European Union in Podgorica with a letter in which he claims that the local parliament of Ulcinj should have 34, not 33 councilors, and that therefore, the March 2022 local elections were irregular.
Article 3 of the Law on the Election of Councilors and Members of Parliament stipulates that citizens in municipalities elect 30 councilors and one more for every five thousand voters. In the same article, it is stated that the number of councilors is determined by the SO with a special decision no later than on the day of announcing the election, after notification of the number of voters.
In the elections two years ago in Ulcinj, over 20.393 voters had the right to vote, but the then convocation of the Assembly did not adopt a decision on the number of councilors because there was no quorum.
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