MANS is implementing the project under the title “Improving of parliamentary monitoring and accountability in Montenegro”, supported by the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF). The project refers to monitoring transparency and activities of the Parliament of Montenegro and its MPs. Duration of the project is two years and five months, and this is the fifth and last report published by MANS, which relates to the period from January 1, 2020, to May 31, 2020.
On the basis of results of the parliamentary elections held on October 16, 2016, the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) won 36 seats, Democratic Front (DF) 18, coalition Ključ 9, Democratic Montenegro (DCG) 8, the Bosniak Party (BS) and the Social Democrats (SD) two seats, Albanians Decisively and the Croatian Civic Initiative (HGI) one each, while the Social Democratic Party (SDP) won 4 seats.
The Parliament of Montenegro was formed on November 7, 2016. Out of 81 MPs in Montenegro’s Parliament, 42 elected the president and vice-presidents of the Parliament – Ivan Brajović, Branimir Gvozdenović and Genci Nimanbegu. Thus, the parliamentary majority consists of DPS, SD, and minority parties of Bosniaks, Albanians and Croats, while 39 opposition MPs (DF, Democratic Montenegro, SD, DEMOS, SNP and Civic movement URA) have agreed to boycott the Parliament of Montenegro.
Majority of Montenegrin opposition ended the boycott of the work of the Parliament that occurred due to parliamentary elections held on October 16, 2016. The opposition claimed they had not been held in a democratic atmosphere. Namely, on the election day, it was announced that the attempt of “coup” had taken place, which, according to the opposition parties, influenced the decision of the citizens and the election result. The opposition requested to repeat parliamentary elections as a condition to end the boycott. In this report as well, the work of the Parliament was boycotted by 9 opposition MPs of Democratic Montenegro and URA.
This report provides information on individual activities of MPs, most active MPs at the plenary sessions and MPs who did not request to speak at the plenary sessions. The work of MPs Groups, the work of MPs at the plenary sessions of the Parliament, as well as the control function of the Parliament were analysed.
The most active MP in the observed period was Raško Konjević (SDP), whose activity index was 2.26, while 13 MPs (Mirsad Murić, Maja Bakrač, Miodrag Vuković, Filip Vuković, Branko Čavor, Milorad Vuletić, Nikola Divanović, Zvonko Vuković, Žana Filipović, Veljko Vasiljević, Aleksandra Vujičić, Džavid Šabović and Nedžad Drešević) had an activity index of 0.00, which means that they had no activity at the plenum.
In the period from January 1 to May 31, 2020, two plenary sessions were held, while two sittings started in this time period but have not ended, they are in progress and will be continued in the following period. These four sittings of the Parliament, which were observed in this period, lasted 59 hours. MPs Group of DPS had most discussions, 99, while individually, Raško Konjević had most discussions, 19.
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