2014
Press release: Electoral lists to be checked – Public servants or politicians?
02. 05. 2014.
The electoral lists for local elections in Podgorica contain names of persons occupying senior positions within public administration, which represents violation of the Law on Civil Servants and State Employees and points out to politicization of state administration that is still present. Civil servants and state employees are obliged to restrain from public demonstration of…
The Game of Open Cards
01. 05. 2014.
It seems to me that the public knows very little about the true ratio of political power, since no public opinion polls have been published prior to these local elections, while it was a frequent practice to do so before. Towards the elections in fourteen municipalities in Montenegro, apparently everyone knows everything. Everyone acts tough…
The Work and Opportunities of Local Parliaments
01. 05. 2014.
Our researcher Marko Sošić spoke about the control of local budgets at the panel discussion “The Work and Possibilities of Local Parliaments”. The panel was organized within the project Corruption on the local level – zero tolerance!, implemented by Centre for Civic Education (CCE) in cooperation with Institute Alternative (IA). The panelists were: Zoran Stojiljković,…
Press relase: Audit Subjects Not Complying with SAI’s Requests
30. 04. 2014.
Institut alternativa’s research indicates that half of institutions that were audited by the State Audit Institution (SAI) in the last year have not complied with the obligation to submit reports on the implementation of the SAI’s recommendations. Auditees that did not submit the report on the fulfillment of the recommendations are: Municipality of Bijelo Polje,…
Press release: Instead of praises, prosecution reports to be realistic
25. 04. 2014.
Reports on the work of the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office mostly consist of statistics and ignore concrete problems in the work of this institution, although a number of issues in its work are indicated by the expert community. The conclusions from the last report of the State Prosecutor’s Office from 2012 are, in fact, positive…
Commentary on the draft Law on wages in the public sector
22. 04. 2014.
Institute Alternative (IA) in its 2008 analysis on wages and rewards policies in Montenegro’s public administration recommended that one legal act should regulate wages in regulatory bodies and local and state administration authorities. We thus support the decision of Ministry of Finance to draft the Law on wages of public sector employees, which would be…