Prime Minister Milojko Spajić's government is non-transparent and closed, and the Assembly headed by Andrija Mandić is somewhat more open, but laws are adopted without public and quality debates in the plenum and "ad hoc" depending on the needs and will of the ruling majority.
This was announced at the conference of the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) "Process of creating public policies: Participation, transparency, responsibility".
"If you remember, at the first session, the government canceled the direct transmission of the sessions of the government and firmly promised us that it would hold a press conference after each one. Unfortunately, that did not happen, and it could not happen because the government had more telephone sessions than regular sessions," he pointed out. is Dragan Koprivica, executive director of CDT.
The government, Koprivica explains, made decisions 62 times by telephone in less than a year, and held 53 regular sessions during the same period.
The CDT reminds that the prime minister chooses the media to which he gives interviews, does not answer questions from MPs but posts them on the website, avoids answering questions from MPs, and control hearings are also postponed.
"That is not the way an organized society should function. You know that the Prime Minister said that his vision is Montenegro as the Switzerland of the Balkans and the Singapore of Europe. And I am sure that this is not the way to implement the reconstruction of the Government by cabinets and media." said Milena Gvozdenović, deputy executive director of CDT
Former Montenegrin Prime Minister Igor Lukšić, who has not been politically active in recent years, says that even in the European Union there is political trade in lobbying and certain practices that are against us, but that strong institutions solve problems there. He does not think that the standard of transparency is an open session of the Government or Parliament, but rather the attitude towards inquiries and the results of the institutions' work.
"In this period after 2020 and in the period of ten years ago, the most characteristic feature of the EU integration process is that it is talked about much more than it is actually implemented. It now depends a lot on the people who are at the head of the government. , states, ministries, do they really understand their role or is it reduced to one or two tweets with which they will comment on something," Lukšić said.
Marko Sošić, a public policy researcher at the Institute of Alternatives, particularly questioned the fact that none of the eight laws adopted due to the implementation of the Europe Now 2 program had a public hearing.
"Out of the total number of laws submitted, which are in the parliamentary procedure, almost 40 percent of them were submitted by deputies. And when deputies submit a law, they do not have the obligation to conduct a public debate, nor an impact analysis, nor do they have an obligation to consult with the European Commission ", said Sosic.
The representative of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Andrija Nikolić also participated in the conference.
As a representative of the opposition, he particularly questioned the fact that in almost a year since the formation of the Government, only four prime minister's hours were held and that MPs asked questions to ministers only once, which, he claims, represents the devastation of the Parliament.
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