The Montenegrin Parliament elected Monday three Constitutional Court judges formally unblocking this institution.

Three of the candidates were backed by 77 MPs in the 81-seat parliament, while the fourth candidate did not get the votes of the required two-thirds majority, and the Parliament will hold a second-round vote on the fourth candidate in a month’s time at the earliest.

The parliamentary majority and the opposition previously agreed on the election of the three candidates, Dragana Djuranovic, Snezana Armenko and Momirka Tesic, but the minority parties failed to agree on a joint candidate.

Montenegro’s Constitutional Court has been without a quorum since September last year because it only had three of its seven judges.