Law on National Assembly adopted

MPs of the Serbian parliament have adopted the Law on National Assembly. Independent financing, rendition of anthem and honor guard are some of the novelties in the newly adopted legislation, said reports today. Law on National Assembly adopted The new law envisages that the highest legislative body will for the fist time be financed from its own budget. The funds will be provided from the state budget, while parliament will have its own account and will have independent control of the money. The law envisages a series of other new features in the work of parliament, which includes rendition of the national anthem and presence of a special unit of the Serbian Army at the beginning and at end of regular sessions, and obligatory oath-taking for Mps. Nada Kolundzija, on behalf of the ruling DS and their coalition's parliament group, who proposed the law, accepted a Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) amendment, which removes “the foundation for the so-called blank resignation letters”, reports said. LDP said that this won them “practical recognition that the constitutional provision which allows the blank resignation letters is undemocratic and bad and that those who wrote such a constitution entered a provision which does not exist anywhere in the world, and because of which both the EU and the Venice Commission are criticizing us”. Nada Kolundzija in parliament today (Beta)

Law on National Assembly adopted

The new law envisages that the highest legislative body will for the fist time be financed from its own budget.

The funds will be provided from the state budget, while parliament will have its own account and will have independent control of the money.

The law envisages a series of other new features in the work of parliament, which includes rendition of the national anthem and presence of a special unit of the Serbian Army at the beginning and at end of regular sessions, and obligatory oath-taking for Mps.

Nada Kolundžija, on behalf of the ruling DS and their coalition's parliament group, who proposed the law, accepted a Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) amendment, which removes “the foundation for the so-called blank resignation letters”, reports said.

LDP said that this won them “practical recognition that the constitutional provision which allows the blank resignation letters is undemocratic and bad and that those who wrote such a constitution entered a provision which does not exist anywhere in the world, and because of which both the EU and the Venice Commission are criticizing us”.