The majority of members of the Parliamentary Administrative Committee decided not to continue the process of appointing nine members of the State Election Commission (SEC) at today's session.
Member of the Civil Movement URA Miloš Konatar appealed to try to reach an agreement, because it does not make sense for someone to be excluded from the SEC.
Konatar commented that his party will not have a representative, even though it has four deputies.
Nikola Zirojević from the SD said that his party has a representative and pointed out that he is "thankful to his colleagues from the DPS", and that the URA should address the coalition partners.
Duško Stjepović (Democrats) reminded that by law four members are elected by the government and four by the opposition.
DPS MP Mihailo Andušić said that the law leaves room for interpretation in different ways, but hardly anyone from the outside will say that GP URA does not belong to something.
Konatar pointed out that his party has a certain percentage in the Hrabro se roji coalition, and that one percent of the members in the SEC should belong to that coalition.
He said that he informed the secretary of the SEC about the issue. According to him, the current state is an attack on elementary logic.
He pointed out that the club with four deputies has no members, and the club with three deputies has both a member and a deputy.
The president of the board, Jelena Nedović, indicated that the solution would be for all parties to run independently in the next elections.
PES MP Vasilije Čarapić pointed out that this case shows another flaw in the Montenegrin electoral legislation, and called for this problem to be resolved as part of the reform of the electoral legislation.
Radinka Ćinćur from the independent club of deputies pointed out that she would like the SEC to be professional, so that it is not answered at the committee, "but while the law is like this, we have to solve it at the committee".
"It is not logical to me that the URA deputies' club and our deputies' club, which have a total of seven deputies, do not have a member in the SEC," said Ćinćur.
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