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The Parliament of Montenegro approves the amendment of the Law on the President, the protesters react with violence

2022-12-12 20:54:53Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The Parliament of Montenegro approves the amendment of the Law on the President,
Protest in front of the Parliament

The Parliament of Montenegro, with a majority of votes, approved on Monday the amendment of the Law on the President, with which the current parliamentary majority will receive a part of the powers of the president in the election of the new government.

The purpose of the changes proposed by the pro-Russian Democratic Front is for their candidate, Miodrag Lekić, to be elected as the candidate for prime minister of the new Montenegrin government.

Earlier today, the Parliament of Montenegro failed to elect the members of the Constitutional Court, because none of the four candidates received a sufficient number of votes.

42 MPs voted for the elections, while 49 votes were needed out of 81 MPs in the Montenegrin parliament.

Opposition MPs did not participate in the parliament session.

The adoption of the Law on the President contradicts the recommendation of the Venice Commission, which said on Friday that "the amendments to the Law on the President of Montenegro should not be approved, as they would essentially represent a change to the Constitution, with a larger majority smaller parliamentary than expected".

After the approval of the amendments to the Law on the President, the protestors from the morning stood in front of the parliament seat, strongly reacted against the action of the majority deputies. On that occasion, the headquarters of the parliament was hit with hard objects, breaking the windows and doors of the parliament, after which the police fired tear gas.

Citizens continue to stand in front of the police cordon and sing the national anthem.

One of the police leaders tried to address the protesters, but they greeted him with shouts of displeasure and refused to leave.

The power crisis in Montenegro culminated in the fall of Dritan Abazovic's government, after unilaterally signing the agreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church, which the Democratic Socialist Party of president Milo Djukanovic and part of the opposition considered contrary to national interests.

The approval of the controversial amendments to the Law on the President followed after President Djukanović rejected the proposal of the majority that their candidate Miodrag Lekić be the mandate holder and presented the proposal to dissolve the parliament and go to new parliamentary elections.

The European Union expressed several times its concern about the political situation in Montenegro and called for the immediate end of the blockade of the institutions and the normalization of the situation in the country.

The EU called on the political forces not to further tense the situation and to work for the achievement of an inter-party consensus, as the main priority. They recalled that the continuous progress of Montenegro in membership requires that all political actors support the functioning of democratic institutions./ VOA


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