The Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability (CRTA) filed with the Serbian Constitutional Court on Wednesday a motion to assess the constitutionality of 54 laws adopted at the December 25-27, 2024 session of the Serbian Parliament.

CRTA said that the thousands of pages of documents that were submitted to the Constitutional Court provide detailed indications of “a series of major flaws, in violation of the Constitution, the Law on the People’s Assembly and the parliament’s Rules of Procedure.”

“Unfortunately, violations of procedure are not uncommon in our parliament, but that session was taken to an extreme, which could be referred to as a festival of unconstitutionality and illegality. In the context of the gravity of the violation of law and rules at that particular session, the Parliament reached the lowest point in its history,” said CRTA.

According to this NGO’s assessment, due to Parliament speaker Ana Brnabic’s “scandalously irresponsible actions,” the legislative procedure “has been brutally abused, and debate as a vital element of parliamentary work and deciding has been abolished.”

“With the illegal stifling of debate, manipulating with procedures and voting, and by preventing the consideration of the draft amendments, the highest representative body has been reduced to a mere instrument for the automatic and non-transparent acceptance of the inputs. It is the job of the Constitutional Court of Serbia to protect the Parliament as the most important democratic institution, by which the citizens exercise their sovereignty,” said CRTA.