Constitutional Court priority, evaluation of the Law on the President in December

The largest part of the MP's conversation with the experts of the Venice Commission (VK) was related to the Law on the President, RTCG Portal was told. Representatives of the government and opposition caucuses talked with the experts of the Venice Commission about the election of judges of the Constitutional Court and the law on the president. This information was confirmed to Portal RTCG.
According to RTCG's unofficial information from the parliament, the representatives of the Venice Commission, the advisory body of the Council of Europe, were most interested in the MP's opinion on the law on the president.
"It was especially pointed out that there wouldn't be much discussion about everything if Montenegro had a functioning Constitutional Court, and it was underlined once again that this issue should be resolved as soon as possible," one of the participants of the meeting told Portal RTCG.
Representatives of the parliamentary majority claimed that the Law on the President is in accordance with the Constitution.
In addition, representatives of the Venice Commission announced that they will give their opinion on the Law on the President by mid-December. Part of the deputies said during the meeting that they would like to see and consider the opinion of the Venice Commission before December 12, that is, before the vote in parliament on this law.
The meeting was held in an online format. The VK team consists of experts from Finland, Bulgaria and Greece.
The president of the Venice Commission, Claire Bazi Malori, recently pointed out the urgency of electing judges of the Constitutional Court.
The vote on four candidates for judges of the Constitutional Court has been postponed until December 12, and in the meantime, the dialogue on the way out of the political and institutional crisis should be renewed.
There will be four candidates for judges in front of the deputies, who should be elected with a three-fifths majority, that is, with 49 votes out of a total of 81.
This means that in addition to the members of the ruling majority, which has 41 votes, the election should be supported by at least eight members of the opposition.
As of September 13, the Constitutional Court of Montenegro does not have a quorum for decision-making, because it has only three judges out of a total of seven.
The President of Montenegro sent back the Law on the Speaker of the Parliament for reconsideration, and it will be discussed at the session on December 12.
About 3,000 constitutional appeals are awaiting a decision by the Constitutional Court. In addition, appeals were received without resolution of which it is not possible to form a government in several municipalities after the local elections held on October 23, including in Podgorica.
The appeal of the parliamentary majority on whether the President of Montenegro Milo Đukanović violated the Constitution by not awarding the mandate for the composition of the new Government to MP Miodrag Lekić is in the procedure before the Constitutional Court.
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