Referring to the recommendations of the Venice Commission, the government recommended the constitution amendments related to judiciary, which would require the election of the supreme state prosecutor to be done out of the Parliament.
Pobjeda writes that the practice shows that the supreme state prosecutor in most European countries is elected by the government, including Slovenia, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Germany. In Croatia, state prosecutors are elected by the Parliament, but, unlike in Montenegro, by a simple majority.
Amendments to the constitution that were agreed by the government and the opposition during 2014 provided for the supreme state prosecutor to be elected by the Parliament in two rounds, with respectively 2/3 and 3/5 majority.
This resulted in barely reaching a consensus on the election of the current supreme state prosecutor, Ivica Stankovic. Talks on the constitutional changes are not realistic to expect, at least not by the end of 2018, given the opposition boycott of the Parliament and the lack of confidence between the ruling party and the opposition.
