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Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Eighteenth Sitting of the Local Self-Government Committee
At the sitting held today, the Local Self-Government Committee considered, in principle, the Bill amending and modifying the Law on Local Elections, submitted by the Government.
The sitting was attended by Dusko Radakovic, State Secretary at the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, Public Administration and Local Self-Government and an associate, as well as Marko Tomasevic, representative of Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities.
The Ministry representative said that the Bill does not introduce any essential changes, but rather harmonises the Law with the adopted Law on Organisation of Courts, Law on Political Parties and Law on Administrative Disputes, as well as the decision of the Constitutional Court that the mandate should belong to the councilmen.
In the ensuing debate the Committee members opined that the Law on Local Elections should be amended so that the citizens might elect their representatives in the local assemblies directly rather than the election be made via the political parties’ electoral lists which might result in certain local communities lacking representation.
The Committee members adopted the Bill amending and modifying the Law on Local Elections in principle. Committee Deputy Chairman Mihailo Puric was elected Committee rapporteur to the National Assembly session.
The sitting was chaired by Committee Chairman Jovan Palalic.
Committees related to this activity
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9.00 - sitting of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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9.20 - press conference of the NEW DSS – POKS (NADA) Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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9.30 - sitting of the European Integration Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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9.30 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)
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10.00 - press conference of the Ecological Uprising Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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10.30 - sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)
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12.00 - public hearing of the Culture and Information Committee on the topic: Public interview with the proposed candidates for Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media Council members (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, Small Hall)
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15.00 - sitting of the Culture and Information Committee (National Assembly Building, 14 Kralja Milana Street, Small Hall)
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15.30 - the PFG with Italy, the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta meets with the Italian delegation to the Central European Initiative Parliamentary Dimension (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)
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16.00 - the National Assembly Speaker meets with the Head of the EU Delegation to receive the EC Report on Serbia’s Progress in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 1)
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16.20 - press statements on the delivered EC Report on Serbia’s Progress in 2025 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)
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17.00 - press conference of the Green-Left Front – Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own and Movement of Free Citizens (PSG) – Party of Democratic Action of Sandzak (SDA Sandzak) – Party for Democratic Action (PDD) parliamentary groups (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)