President of Montenegro Jakov Milatovic sent a letter to the President of the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, Snezana Armenko, requesting information on whether the Constitutional Court, in accordance with the provisions of Article 154, paragraph 3 of the Constitution, determined that there were reasons for the termination of office or the dismissal of one of the two current judge whose nominee was the President of Montenegro or that such reasons would arise in the next six months.
He recalls that the provision of Article 7, paragraph 1 of the Law on the Constitutional Court prescribes that the President of Montenegro and the Constitutional Committee of the Parliament of Montenegro, as authorized proposers, carry out the procedure for nominating judges of the Constitutional Court after receiving notification of the termination of office or dismissal of a judge, while paragraph 2 of the same article stipulates that the Constitutional Court will inform the proposer who proposed that judge about the fulfillment of the conditions for old-age pension, i.e. the expiration of the term of a judge of the Constitutional Court, six months before the fulfillment of the conditions for exercising the right to an old-age pension, that is, before the end of the term.
Furthermore, says Milatovic, the provisions of Article 154, paragraph 3 of the Constitution of Montenegro establish that the occurrence of reasons for termination of office or dismissal shall be determined by the Constitutional Court at its session.
