One of the candidates for member and president of the Central Election Commission, Administrative Court judge Veljko Vujović, said during the hearing that he is not politically active and has never financed political parties.
"I have never been a member of any political party nor have I been in any body of any political party. I have never participated in the financing of any political party," he said today before the members of the Administrative Committee of the Parliament of Montenegro.
However, ASK data shows that Vujović donated several times to the Democratic Montenegro election campaign in 2017 and 2018, and that he paid a total of 250 euros...
Candidate Boris Bastijančić also stressed during the hearing that he is not politically active. He confirmed that from 2022 to 2025, he was a member of the DPS Commission for the Development and Promotion of a Democratic Society and the Rule of Law as a legal expert.
"So, those commissions were not from the party profile. So, those commissions did not include people who were party soldiers, people who had membership cards," he said.
The members of the commission that Bastijančić was on were the current president of DPS Danijel Živković and former MP Marta Šćepanović...
Candidate Muhamed Đokaj said during the hearing that he was politically active, but exclusively at the local level. However, he did not mention that he was also a parliamentary candidate for the Albanian List in the 2009 snap parliamentary elections.
Candidate Gordana Mitrović claims that she was not a member of any political party, although portals in 2021 announced that in November of that year she was elected president of the Patriotic-Committee Alliance for the local elections in Podgorica.
"I called it disinformation, or information that is not complete, or rather, half-information," said Mitrović.
One of the main criteria for joining the CEC is that candidates cannot be members or officials of political parties, and that they have not been MPs or councilors in the past five years...
Also, according to the Law on the Election of Councilors and Representatives, the president and member of the election commission are dismissed if it is determined that they have provided incorrect information about themselves or have failed to present information and circumstances that are important for the election.
The CEC needs professionals, both in terms of knowledge, expertise, credibility, and morality. The first condition in this regard should be that they tell the truth when running for important positions in the civil service.
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