The Constitutional Court will assess the constitutionality of articles of the Law on the President

The Constitutional Court will assess the constitutionality of the articles of the Law on the President, it was decided at today's session.
As Portal RTCG unofficially learns, a unanimous decision was made to initiate the procedure for the evaluation of the constitutionality of the provisions of several articles of the Law on the President.
We would like to remind you that at today's session, the Constitutional Court discussed the initiatives to start the procedure for the evaluation of the constitutionality of the amendments to the Law on the President. The initiatives were submitted by Boris Bastijančić, adviser to the President of the State for the constitutional system and legal issues, and the NGO Center for Democratic Transition (CDT).
In Bastijančić's initiative, it is stated that a legal act of lower legal force derogates the Constitution, the highest legal act of the state.
The CDT assessed that the amendments to the Law on the President violate the constitutional balance of power and change the meaning of the Montenegrin Constitution.
The Constitutional Committee of the Assembly proposed earlier to the Constitutional Court to reject the initiatives, judging that there are no grounds for their acceptance.
The newly elected President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, said earlier that he hoped that the Constitutional Court would soon make a decision on the initiatives, so that all doubts in this regard would be removed and that he would be able to perform the function of the president in full capacity from the first day of his mandate.
Amendments to the Law on the President, which refer to the procedure for electing representatives for the composition of the Government, were adopted in December last year.
The Venice Commission then recommended to the deputies not to adopt changes to the Law.
The President of the country, Milo Đukanović, after no agreement was reached regarding the new mandate even after the adoption of the amendments to the Law on the President, dissolved the Assembly and announced extraordinary parliamentary elections for June 11.
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