The President of the Assembly, Andrija Mandić, in an interview with Television Vijesti last year, said that he promised his colleagues from the parliamentary benches that by the end of the first quarter of this year, he would come before them with the long-awaited Draft Law on the Assembly.
"That in January, February, March I would have already appeared with one proposal of that basic text that could be improved," said Mandić at the time.
The Office of the President of the Assembly told Television News that their legal team is preparing a proposal for the Draft Law on the Assembly, which they will propose to the Collegium of the Head of Parliament.
And while Mandić's cabinet points out that it is important for the government to emulate the legislative power and prepare a law that will regulate their work, the MPs say that they have not yet seen even a word of what Mandić's team is preparing.
"It was just these days that talk was started that work should be done on the Act on the Assembly, there was no concrete action, we still do not have the working body formed to work on that law," said DNP MP Maja Vukićević.
"Regarding some of the conversations between MPs, the initiative has not yet been started," says DPS MP Sonja Milatović.
In principle, both the government and the opposition agree that such a law is necessary. This, they believe, has been shown by many situations - both during this and previous governments.
"The 80rd Government, which was in a technical mandate, there were a lot of disputes about the responsibilities of the Assembly in that situation, so we had the Assembly dissolved, and a few months of inactivity, because it was considered that we could not work when the Assembly was dissolved and during that period more than XNUMX draft laws were pending," says Vukićević.
"Today, when we witness that the Parliament of Montenegro is humiliated, when the Prime Minister calls it a circus, and the President of the Parliament agrees to such humiliation just to get into the Government as soon as possible, it shows that the Law on the Parliament is needed to protect the integrity of the deputies. For two months now, we have not been able to conduct the control hearing of the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister," said Milatović.
"If we are going to treat the Law on the Assembly as we currently treat the Rules of Procedure, and the Rules of Procedure are currently like the Law, because we do not have another act that regulates the work of the Parliament of Montenegro, then we are doing our work for nothing," said MP URA Miloš Konatar.
Earlier authorities also promised to pass the Law on the Assembly, but everything remained on that. The MPs of this convocation are still optimists, but in the long run.
"I expect everything from Mandić, and among other things, to start this story," Konatar concluded.
"It is realistic to have a draft after the summer break," Vukićević believes.
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