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In Podgorica, there was an obstruction in the work of the parliament. The session, in which the amendment to the Religious Freedom Act was supposed to be approved, has not continued in recent hours. During the day, Milo Đukanović’s DPS supporters gathered in front of the Assembly on two occasions, and there were also police officers in front of the parliament building.
According to the latest information, the deputies of the parliamentary majority are entering the assembly hall and the session is expected to continue. However, there is no official confirmation yet. The deadlock in the parliament’s work came about because the State Electoral Commission (SEC) refused to verify the mandate of the deputy of the “Black and White” list, Suada Zoronjic, after her coalition colleague Filip Adzic resigned.
According to the official announcement on the website of the Parliament of Montenegro, the vote on the corrected version of the Law on Religious Freedom was not foreseen on the agenda for today’s session. However, during the day in the Human Rights Committee the proposed amendments were approved, which automatically gave the green light to the Law, which caused the fall of the regime in Montenegro, to be presented to the deputies. The session started at 4pm instead of noon, without opposition, namely Djukanovic’s DPS, who later claimed there was no quorum, although it was determined by roll call a little earlier. Apart from the DPS, MPs from the SDP, SD, BS, LP and Albanian parties are not present at the session.
Simultaneously with the obstruction of the work of the parliament, the meeting of citizens in front of the parliament building began. They dispersed around 2 p.m., only to meet around 5 p.m. Most of the slogans and chants were directed against the URA leader and the Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro, Dritan Abazović. Those gathered, who dispersed about fifteen minutes ago, cursed and insulted Abazović.
It is a curfew in Montenegro from 10 pm.
SEC Refuses To Verify Mandate Of “Black And White” MPs
Podgorica’s “Vijesti” claims his source stated that it is not known what the reasons are for the SEC refusing to verify the mandate of the ruling majority deputy. But he said that a letter to Parliament is being prepared, in which everything will be explained.
Five members of the SEC voted negatively, four positively, while President Aleksa Ivanović abstained.
So far, there has been no example of that institution refusing to confirm the mandate of a deputy.
Members of the SEC have not changed after the formation of the new government, so Djukanovic’s DPS has the majority. The parliamentary majority in which that party was elected current president of the State Electoral Commission.
– A parliamentary seat remains vacant until the Constitutional Court rules on the appeal – explained the interlocutor of “Vijesti”.
The citizens dispersed in front of the Assembly
Citizens who arrived in front of the Assembly building around 5 p.m. began to disperse around 9 p.m. They did so at the request of the vice president of the DPS and the member of the Assembly, Dusko Markovic.
He told them to meet again tomorrow or the day after.
DPS deputies (Andrija Nikolić, Aleksandra Vuković, Suzana Pribilović …) also addressed them before 7 pm and spoke with them.
Then the citizens told them “to go back to the Assembly”, stating that “it is their fault that they allowed all this to happen”, reports “Vijesti”.
DPS agents told those gathered to disperse.
“Tomorrow, all of Montenegro will collapse here,” the assembled citizens said.
One of the citizens said that “this will not happen without blood.”
They also told the DPS deputies that “you did not hire us, but the Chetniks, here they are.”
When they arrived at the front of the Assembly around 5 in the afternoon, they chanted “treason, treason.”
Those gathered used inappropriate words, mainly at the expense of Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović.
DPS: We will not form a quorum for the overthrow of civil and European Montenegro
The DPS left the session in the Human Rights Committee, and then the session of the Assembly. The Club of Deputies of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) announced that today’s session of the Assembly began without a quorum.
They affirmed that there would be a constructive opposition, but that “no one can expect from them that we form a quorum for the overthrow of civil and European Montenegro.”
“The quorum is determined by attending the session and using the electronic voting system, in such a way that each deputy is obliged to identify himself personally (register) by inserting an identification card at the parliamentary desk of his seat. In addition, there is the possibility of determine This paragraph implies the presence of the deputies in the plenary hall, as in any other case, for the purposes of determining the quorum. The initial paragraph of Article 90, which prescribes the quorum, explains it and says: “The President of the Assembly opens a session of the Assembly and determines whether the majority of the total number of deputies ”, announced the DPS Deputies Club.
As they affirmed, this affirmation is “the only truth, confirmed by the deputies of the new majority”.
Who requested only five days ago, by coincidence, that the Regulation be modified and that the deputies be allowed in isolation to form a quorum. Thus, the deputies of the new majority confirmed that only those present in the plenary hall are considered “present” in the current Regulations. In short, according to the current Rules of Procedure of the Parliament of Montenegro, the physical presence of 41 deputies is required to determine the quorum. “
They add that at the end of November, in the new convocation of the Assembly, by modifying the Regulation, the parliamentary majority was met “by allowing deputies who have a decision of isolation to vote in the online session, without the right to participate in the debate”.
“At that time, we emphasized to the Assembly leaders that we do not want to allow the quorum to be determined online, because we do not want our votes on the amendment of the Regulation to allow a session of the Assembly to be called with laws that disrupt the state system and national interests “. to provide a quorum, if the majority of the deputies have deputies in isolation, exclusively to discuss the Government, the Budget Law and the reports of the regulatory bodies, so we did not want to give a quorum for the session in which to vote for the Law of Religious Freedom, as well as the Law of Officials and Employees of the State ”, is affirmed in the call of the Club of Deputies of the DPS.
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