28. 07. 2022. 00:00   >>  16:04

THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECIDED

Postponing the election unconstitutional

The Constitutional Court ruled today that the Law on Amendments to the Law on Local Self-Government, by which local elections in several municipalities were postponed to October 23, is not in accordance with the Constitution, TVCG learns.

As the MINA Agency learns, the Constitutional Court unanimously passed a decision repealing the Law on Amendments to the Law on Local Self-Government, and that decision will be published in the Official Gazette.

 

The Constitutional Court judged that the disputed Law is contrary to the unity of the legal order and that the duration of the mandate is regulated differently in that law and the Law on the Election of Councilors and Members of Parliament.

 

The judges also assessed that the duration of the mandate is regulated by the laws regulating the electoral system and that two-thirds of the votes of all deputies are required for the adoption of those laws.

 

It was also assessed that the contested law does not have a retroactive effect as stated in the proposal of the DF deputy, because the election activities have been started but not completed.

 

The original court session on this issue was supposed to be held on July 21, but it was postponed due to the absence of the President of the Constitutional Court Budimir Scepanovic.

 

At the beginning of May, the Center for Democratic Transition submitted an initiative for the evaluation of the constitutionality of the amendments to the Law on Local Self-Government, which postponed the local elections in 14 municipalities to October 23.