The Civic Movement URA does not rule out the possibility that their deputies in the second round of voting for judges of the Constitutional Court will support one of the candidates proposed by the Constitutional Committee of the Parliament of Montenegro, Deputy Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms Mirjana Radović or Judge of the Higher Court in Podgorica Jovan Jovanović.
This was stated by URA MP Zoran Mikić in the show Nedjelja u retrovizoru on Vijesti Television, denying media allegations that this support was agreed upon by URA and the Europe Now Movement (PES) and that the parliamentary majority would in return vote for their bill "Housing for All".
Mikić still expects that the bill will soon return to parliamentary procedure.
While URA is announcing possible support, the Bosniak Party will not change its position, and will not support candidates for judges of the Constitutional Court in the second round of voting because, according to the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, Mirsad Nurković, the ruling majority did not accept their request that one of the candidates be from the ranks of the Bosniak people.
"The chances of the Constitutional Court being completed, of getting all seven judges, are small. But we as the URA will weigh the greater interest at this moment, whether to complete the institutions, which I personally think is the case, on our path towards full membership in the European Union. I hope that we will somehow reach at least five, if not seven, of all seven judges of the Constitutional Court. I cannot say tonight that we will support both candidates," Mikić emphasized.
When asked whether there was a possibility that the Bosniak Party would revise its position by the second round of voting for Constitutional Court judges, Nurković said that "in this election cycle, that does not exist."
"It definitely does not exist. Those who negotiated the candidates did not find it appropriate to consider our arguments. Why is it that when certain things are at stake, big things, the Bosniak Party or the Bosniak people must always be the ones who are flexible and who always have to submit to other interests for the sake of higher interests," Nurković said.
Mirjana Vučinić, Jovan Jovanović and Mirjana Radović were not elected as judges of the Constitutional Court on October 14th.
None of the candidates received a two-thirds majority in the first round of voting for members of the Parliament of Montenegro.
16 opposition MPs (Democratic Party of Socialists and Social Democrats) and independent MPs Jevrosima Pejović and Radinka Ćinćur voted for Vučinić, while 44 government representatives abstained. MPs from the URA did not participate in the vote for judges. Some government MPs objected to Vučinić being a lawyer for “Bemaks”.
Jovanović's election was supported by 45 majority MPs, while Admir Adrović from the Bosniak Party (BS) was against, while five of his party colleagues abstained.
For Radović, who was criticized by some for not having a bar exam, 44 majority MPs voted, one was against (Adrović), and five abstained (BS).
On October 14, members of the Montenegrin Parliament discussed candidates for judges of the Constitutional Court proposed by the Constitutional Committee and President Jakov Milatović, whose election in the first round of voting required a two-thirds majority in the Parliament, or 54 votes.
Milatović previously submitted a proposal to the Parliament to elect Mirjana Vučinić as a judge of the Constitutional Court, while the Constitutional Committee proposed Mirjana Radović and Jovan Jovanović.
Given that the candidates did not receive the required majority in the first round, a second round of voting will be organized no earlier than a month after this vote, in which, according to the Constitution, three-fifths support is required, or the votes of 49 MPs.
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