Opinion of the Venice Commission on the Law on the President before December 16

The Venice Commission intends to issue an urgent opinion on the Law on the President before the next plenary session of that body scheduled for December 16 and 17, the press service of the Council of Europe (CE) informed Pobjeda.
CE Pobjeda confirmed that the Secretariat of the Venice Commission received the request of the President of Montenegro for an urgent opinion on amendments to the Law on the President of Montenegro.
The Venice Commission intends to issue this opinion as an urgent matter, before the next plenary session scheduled for December 16 and 17, 2022. However, for now we cannot give a more precise date - they said from SE.
The President of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, requested last week that the Venice Commission give an urgent opinion on changes to the law. The "parliamentary majority of August 30" adopted the law and caused a rebellion among the opposition and citizens who consider it an unconstitutional act. Some lawyers and NGOs believe that this is an illegitimate act of the parliamentary majority.
In his request to the Venice Commission, Đukanović particularly problematized the fact that, despite the non-functioning of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, certain holders of the executive and legislative powers are taking steps that, "one would say, go beyond the limited level of their competences defined by the Constitution, for which the best example is the recent adoption The Law on Amendments to the Law on the President of Montenegro, supported by the votes of 41 deputies".
Emphasizing that the consequence of the possible re-voting of the controversial Law on Amendments to the Law on the President of Montenegro at the parliamentary plenum, and its entry into force in a very short period of time, could be the collapse of the constitutional order of Montenegro and universal legal values, the head of state requested that the Venetian the commission gives an urgent opinion on this Law, which it sent back to the Parliament of Montenegro for re-decision.

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