Following the hours-long and heated debate in the Parliament of Montenegro, the Montenegrin MPs adopted the proposal for the Law on Amendments to the Law on Election of the President of Montenegro. Opposition MPs claim that the Constitution was violated and that parliament entered the zone of criminal liability. The law was adopted urgently, which means Milo Djukanovic has to sign it with three dats or return to parliament to make decision on it again.
The amendments envisage a series of unconstitutional provisions, which MPs of the Democratic Front, the Civic Movement URA and the Social People’s Party (SNP), want to use in order to force President Djukanovic to propose prime minister-designate or they should exclude him from that procedure.
The law, among other things, stipulates that the president shall propose prima minister-designate no later than 30 days from the day of holding a no-confidence motion. In addition, he shall do the same if the government falls, if prime minister resigns or if his/her term of office terminates for some reason, in line with law.
