The Liberal Party, LP, has proposed amendments to the rules of procedure referring to the unjustified absence of MPs at the parliament’s sessions. To be more specific, the members of this party require the salary of an MP, who doesn’t come to two or more sessions, to be decreased by 50 per cent.
Having in mind that the Democrats and the URA Civic Movement do not take part in the parliament’s activities, their members now would have to pay high fines, but, that won’t happen, as the issue wasn’t regulated in November 2016, i.e. when the last composition of the Montenegrin parliament was set up. This means that leaders of the two parties, Mr Aleksa Bečić and Mr Dritan Abazović, paid over €1,400 per month, would now be fined around €22,000. Other MPs, that is, members of these two parties would also have to pay more or less the same amount of money.
“I firmly believe that the amended Rules of Procedure, which sanction MPs for their unjustified absence from one or several sessions of the Parliament, will get full support from the Committee and the Parliamentary Plenum as well,” the leader of the LP, Mr Andrija Popović, told CdM.
In addition, the Social Democrats, SD, fully support this proposal, that is, they believe that MPs who don’t come to work should be punished.
“This has already been implemented in all European countries and there’s no reason we shouldn’t do the same here, in the Montenegrin parliament,” the SD official, Mr Nikola Zirojević, clarified for CdM.
The Democratic Party of Socialists, DPS, didn’t comment on the matter.
