Centre for Civic Education (CCE) points out that the evident non-transparent work of the State Election Commission (SEC) starts to position itself as a negative factor in the assessment of the overall election process. The SEC has managed to make numerous controversial decisions in the past few months, to which the CCE duly warned, but… »
Press releases 2020
Minister Šehović to publicly explain why he cannot dismiss Pićurić
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) sent a request to Minister Damir Šehović for urgent action on the Proposal for dismissal of the director of the Secondary Electrical Engineering School “Vaso Aligrudić” Veselin Pićurić no. 0601/2019-4924/3 from 24/07/2020. This is the third proposal by three different education inspectors to dismiss Pićurić in the last few years,… »
The Constitutional Court confirmed the position of the CCE, the SEC must be brought within the framework of legality and constitutionality
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) welcomes the decision of the Constitutional Court, based on the CCE Initiative, to initiate proceedings of assessing the constitutionality and legality of the provisions of the Technical Recommendations for the Epidemiological Protection of Voters During Elections adopted by the State Election Commission (SEC). This confirmed the position of the CCE,… »
Urgently terminate concession agreement with “Dekar” and “Dekar Energy”
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) calls on the Government to urgently review and terminate the Concession Agreement with the companies “Dekar” and “Dekar Energy” and thus prevent the investor from putting the local and “wild” rivers Ljubaštica, Crnja and Čestogaz into the pipeline to build three small hydropower plants in Kraljske Bare, in the municipality… »
SPINoFACT – Monitoring of the 2020 Parliamentary elections in Montenegro
The Centre for Civic Education (CCE), with the support of the UK Embassy in Montenegro, presented today the first findings of media monitoring, but also social media, during the campaign for the Parliamentary elections to be held on 30 August 2020. The cross-section refers to the period from the first day after the deadline for… »
Youth activism against contemporary challenges
Centre for Civic Education (CCE), on the occasion of 12 August – The International Youth Day, calls on the competent institutions working on protection and advancement of position of youth to devise additional actions towards essential inclusion of young people into socio-political processes in times of global challenges and increased health risk, but with the… »
SEC persist in violation of the Constitution and Law of Montenegro
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) indicates that the State Election Commission (SEC), with its yesterday’s announcement, is trying to mislead the public through the changes of the previously enacted Technical Recommendations for the Epidemiological Protection of Voters During Elections that are neither essential nor these solve the key issues that we have pointed out in… »
Initiative submitted to the Constitutional Court to assess the constitutionality of SEC’s recommendations
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) submitted to the Constitutional Court yesterday, according to an earlier announcement, An initiative to review the constitutionality of Technical Recommendations for the Epidemiological Protection of Voters During Elections, adopted by the State Election Commission (SEC) at the 130th session, held on 6 August 2020. Immediately after the publication of this… »
SEC’s Technical Recommendations are unconstitutional, unclear, contradictory and non-applicable
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) expresses serious concern about the Technical Recommendations for the Epidemiological Protection of Voters During Elections which, at yesterday’s session, were adopted by the State Election Commission (SEC). The SEC has not drafted a legal act that enables citizens to exercise the right to vote as guaranteed by the Constitution and… »
Citizens to check if their signature of support is regularly recorded or abuseed
Centre for Civic Education (CCE) points out that the State Election Commission (SEC) has created a special link on its website – potpisi.dik.co.me. At that link, citizens can check if they are on the list of support for any of the confirmed electoral lists for the parliamentary elections scheduled for 30 August 2020. We call… »