HRA welcomes decision of the Montenegrin Parliament to adopt another two amendments to the Bill of Law on the Constitutional Court, as proposed by Liberal Party (Liberalna partija) MP Andrija Popović and advocated for by HRA.

In this way the unfair solution from the Bill has been removed according to which amendments to an individual act based on an unconstitutional legislation could have been required only by a citizen upon whose initiative the Constitutional Court acted, and not by any other person damaged by such legislation. In this way the equality before the law has been achieved.

The solution that the competent parliamentary committee proposes candidates for judges of the Constitutional Court by a qualified majority has been adopted as well. Adoption of this amendment enabled respect of the constitutional provision on a two-thirds majority of votes required for election of judges, which has the purpose to enable significant participation of the opposition in the election process as well.

HRA is grateful to MP Andrija Popović for his advocacy efforts and to everyone who voted for these solutions and thus protected the Constitution. Montenegro now has a solid law on the Constitutional Court, much better than the last one.

HRA team