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Ivanjica opposition councillor says assembly session ended unlawfully

From N1 Serbia · () Serbian

Translated from Serbian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Opposition councillor Ivan Jovićević said Ivanjica’s municipal assembly session ended before it reached the final agenda item on councillors’ questions.
  • He said the presiding official used conflicting terms, first saying she was closing the session and later saying she was interrupting it.
  • Opposition councillors plan to take legal measures to examine whether the session was conducted lawfully.

Ivan Jovićević called the latest session of Ivanjica’s municipal assembly “a scandal,” saying it ended even though councillors had not completed the agenda.

A scandal occurred at today’s assembly session because the session was concluded even though the agenda had not been exhausted.

· Ivan JovićevićThe opposition councillor’s characterization of the session.

Jovićević, who leads the opposition Novo lice Srbije group, said the final item, councillors’ questions, never opened because there allegedly was no quorum in the chamber. The session was chaired by deputy assembly president Ljiljana Ajdačić, an official of the Serbian Progressive Party.

According to Jovićević’s written statement, Ajdačić first said she was “closing” the assembly, then said she was “interrupting” it. After a suggestion from Ivanjica Deputy Mayor Vladimir Bojanović, he said, she again described the session as closed.

Instead of following the prescribed procedure and determining whether the conditions for continuing the work existed, the chair first said she was ‘closing’ the assembly, then ‘interrupting’ it, and after the suggestion of Deputy Mayor Vladimir Bojanović, she again said she was ‘closing’ the assembly.

· Ivan JovićevićHis account of the chair’s conflicting descriptions of the session.

Jovićević argued that the distinction matters procedurally: “An interruption of the session implies that its work will continue, while closing means that the session has ended.” He said opposition councillors would take legal measures to establish the facts and determine whether the deputy assembly president acted lawfully.

An interruption of the session implies that its work will continue, while closing means that the session has ended.

· Ivan JovićevićHis explanation of the procedural distinction at issue.
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Originally published by N1 Serbia in Serbian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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