The Montenegrin language, being the official language in Montenegro, represents a fundamental constitutional determinant which has to be further elaborated and determined by a special law, as it has been done with other identity matters, the president of the Constitutional Committee in the Parliament of Montenegro and the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) MP, Miodrag Vuković, told Dnevne Novine daily.
He recalled that he recently asked deputy prime minister responsible for the political system in the Government of Montenegro, Zoran Pažin, about the legal order of the official language –Montenegrin, emphasizing that in practice there have been many cases of ignoring the constitutional provision, as well as underestimation of the language by public administration, especially when communicating with the public, but on behalf of the state.
Vuković said: “This is not just about the incidents, but they can lead to various forms of language vulgarization and the constitutional provision discredited.”
He believes there are justified reasons, political and factual ones, for solving the language and script issues through a specific law. This is a very sensitive matter, which doesn’t mean the state has no obligation to regulate it, according to Vuković.
