2024
Government Commission Instead of the Administration for Inspection Affairs
29. 05. 2024.
The Draft Law on Amendments to the Law on Inspection Supervision was submitted to the Parliament on May 8 through an urgent procedure, without conducting a public debate. Institut alternativa has provided suggestions to the Legislative Committee and the Committee on Political System, Judiciary, and Administration, urging members to propose amendments to improve the Draft…
How Do Inspections Work? Overview of the work of seven inspections in the areas of high corruption risks
24. 05. 2024.
An overview of the work of seven inspections in areas of high corruption risks represents the first attempt to systematically assess the effectiveness of the inspection oversight conducted by seven different inspections. Some of these inspections are organised within the Administration for Inspection Affairs, while others are part of sectoral ministries. However, all operate in…
Suppression of the control function of the Parliament: Two-thirds of control hearings rejected or pending
17. 05. 2024.
The parliamentary majority is questioning the right that the opposition has had since 2010, which guarantees a certain number of control hearings, which the majority representatives cannot hold back and outvote. Since the beginning of the work of the 28th convocation of the Parliament of Montenegro, 14 initiatives were sent for control hearings, of which…
Initiative for a joint hearing on public procurement in healthcare system
15. 05. 2024.
Institute Alternative (IA) sent the Initiative for a joint hearing on the topic of public procurement in healthcare to the Committee for Economy, Finance and Budget, and the Committee for Health, Labour and Social Welfare of the Parliament of Montenegro. At today’s session of the Committee for Economy, Finance, and Budget, the President of the…
Half of the Parliamentary committees have still not adopted annual work plan
13. 05. 2024.
Institute Alternative has been monitoring the work of the Parliament of Montenegro and its committees for years and, at the beginning of this year, we sent proposals for improving the work, where we insisted on active monitoring of the implementation of reports’ conclusions, of the public administration reform, budget, application of secret surveillance measures, and…
Fleet Expansion: Million-Euro Acquisitions Planned
10. 05. 2024.
Although there is still no unified record of vehicles owned by the state, according to available data, the state’s fleet has exceeded 4.600 vehicles. In 2013, the Government of Montenegro, led by then-Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, announced plans to reduce the state’s vehicle fleet to 2,159 vehicles (from 3,718 registered at the time). However, 11…