Not even a week since it was held the first of several meetings, the State Election Commission, until now has not submitted not a single decision in a written form in regard to complaints that in behalf of MANS filed three political parties.
Instead of the SEC after each session prepared the decision in a written form, delivered them to the applicant and published it on its website, which would enable the last stage to be carried effectively – appeals to the Constitutional Court, it is obvious that this institution decided to deliver all decisions at once, in order to disable filling the appeals to the Constitutional Court within time limit because of the volume of documentation.
It is obvious that within majority of members in the SEC there is doubt in the legality of its own work, because of the fact that they rejected dozens of complaints in a minute, without going into the substance of any of them, and now using administrative acrobatics they try to stop us to initiate proceedings before the Constitutional Court against all of theirs decisions.
As a reminder, based on the law, the decision of the SEC may be appealed to the Constitutional Court within 24 hours after decision delivery. In this case, having in mind that MANS through three political parties submitted over 2.400 complaints, filling the appeals to the Constitutional Court for each of them it would be demanding task.
While MANS will in indisputably prepare and file all appeals to the Constitutional Court within the prescribed time limit, filing a huge number of appeals at the same time it can paralyze the Constitutional Court, for which the sole responsibility will have the SEC because of its reckless and irresponsible behavior.
However, it is incomprehensible that the SEC does not care about the fact that its behavior will lead to the situation where in one day the Constitutional Court will receive hundreds of items for which it urgently has to decide, especially because the SEC itself, when we filed the complaints, asked us not to do that at once, but to give them cases partially so they have time to decide about them.
Having in mind that the Constitutional Court will be under incredible pressure because of the SEC’s behavior, we invite that institution that in the next few days organize duty and to ensure that at any time, including evenings ans weekends, the archive of the Constitutional Court is open so the appeals to the decisions of the SEC could be submitted in accordance with the law, and all that after the SEC its decisions submit.
Acting on complaints so far, first the MSE from Podgorica and after the SEC, it showed that even before all legal procedures were finalized, that the Law does not function, actually that the institutions which should ensure legal use of the electoral procedures, put party interests way ahead public interest and the law. However, MANS will, despite the active obstruction from the SEC, completely use all legal mechanisms, in order to identify all deficiencies in the law application and the work of these institutions which created the situation where no one bears any responsibility for the brutal violation of the law and electoral procedures.
MANS
