The ruling majority is caught in "unscrupulous and open political influence on the highest legal instance in the country", said the head of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) parliamentary club Andrija Nikolić.
He said this while commenting on the proposal to amend the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance (PIO), which provides for the addition of Article 197n after Article 197n (referring to exceptions), which reads: "With the exception of Article 17 of this law, an insured person who performs the duties of a judge of the Constitutional Court, he is entitled to an old-age pension if he has reached the age of 67 and has 15 years of insurance experience". Article 17 of the Law on PIO stipulates that the insured acquires the right to an old-age pension when he reaches the age of 65 and has at least 15 years of insurance experience. The insured acquires the right to an old-age pension when he reaches 40 years of insurance service and 61 years of age.
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He added that the parliamentary majority adapts the law to one person.
According to him, the ruling majority launched a "political battle" for the president of the Constitutional Court, Milorad Gogić, just as they once launched the same battle to remove the former chief special prosecutor (GST) Milivoj Katnić from the judiciary.
"This is a pattern of political corruption. They are passing a systemic law against the system. Last year, it was said that there should be no discrimination, but that men and women should retire at 65, and now because of one man, that limit is changing," said Nikolić at a press conference. in the Parliament of Montenegro.
Nikolić added that the Constitutional Court will decide on the constitutionality of the norm proposed by the Assembly, which will concern the judges sitting in that court.
"The Constitution of Montenegro prescribed clear criteria for the termination of a judge's office, and the parliamentary majority decided to add legal norms to the Constitution. They are abusing legal solutions, thinking that someone will file a constitutional appeal, which should be decided by the person to whom this legal solution refers." said Nikolić and invited the majority and the professional public to dialogue.
"Here, it is to be expected that the Judicial Council and the Minister of Justice will announce themselves. We need to receive the IBAR (Report on the Fulfillment of Temporary Criteria) from the area of the rule of law, and look at the chaos in which it functions. They want to take power in Šavnik by illegal introduction of forced administration, system laws are changed contrary to all rules and democratic procedures, the opposition is not allowed to exercise a control role in the parliament by stopping all control initiatives, the prime minister says that for him coming to the Assembly is a waste of time," said the president of the DPS parliamentary club.
He added that this was not done even in autocratic regimes.
He invited the Judicial Council and the judges of the Constitutional Court to give their opinion on this act and concluded that he would inform international partners about this.
Answering a journalist's question about the situation in the municipality of Šavnik, he said that the representatives of his party will be present at the meeting organized by the head of the parliamentary club Pokreta Evropa Sad (PES) Vasilije Čarapić.
He said that at that meeting, DPS representatives will point out that the decision on forced administration in Šavnik must be withdrawn "in order to start a dialogue about finding some smart solution to solve the situation in that municipality, respecting the laws and the Constitution".
"This means that we have to create the conditions for the electoral process in Šavnik to end. Whether we can do that through some legal intervention or by calling the state seriously to do what it has not done in the previous nine or 10 cases, I would leave it to the Committee for Comprehensive Electoral Reform. The condition that if it is discussed in the right way, the decision on forced administration should be put out of force," said Nikolić.
In response to a journalist's question about the vice-president of the assembly from among the minorities, he said that he is against the principle of the majority electing him, but that he advocates that the minority parties elect him.
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