Member of the Democratic Front (DF) Nebojša Medojević was proposed for the position of deputy president of the Parliamentary Committee for Security and Defense, and therefore also for the Council for National Security.
DF confirmed that it proposed Medojević and that it requests that it be discussed at today's meeting of the Committee, whose agenda includes proposals for the final budget of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior and the National Security Agency for Security and Defense.
Medojević was recently elected as a member of the Committee for Security and Defense, together with his colleagues from the DF, Andrija Mandić and Predrag Bulatović, by the votes of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and the Front, in which, among the opposition MPs, there is also the president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Ranko Krivokapić.
The President of the Board is Obrad Mišo Stanišić (DPS). According to the Law on the Basics of the Intelligence and Security Sector of Montenegro, the President and Deputy President of the Security Committee join the National Security Council, chaired by Prime Minister Duško Marković.
Krivokapić's party informed "Vijesti" that they will not seek the position of deputy president of the approval because, as they state, it belongs to the DF.
The President of the Obrad Security Committee, Mišo Stanišić, told "VIjest" that the DPS MPs have not yet decided whether they will support the election of Medojević as his deputy. "It's not current yet, so I can't comment now. When it becomes relevant, you will have a clear position of the deputies, that is, the members of the Committee from DPS", said Stanišić.
In the previous convocation of parliament, Medojević was also planned for the post of deputy chairman of the Security Committee and member of the National Security Council, but then Snežana Jonica, an MP of the Socialist People's Party (SNP), received the support of the ruling majority instead. She was then proposed for that position by the former president of Positive Montenegro, Darko Pajović. Medojević, Mandić and Bulatović then began to boycott the work of the Security Committee, stating that Medojević should have been elected as deputy president, that he is more competent for that position than Jonica because he has been a member of the Committee for years and knows the issues of the security sector.
The DF also claimed that its leader at the time, Milo Đukanović, did not want him in the Council, because, as they claimed, Medojević would raise questions about the connections between organized crime and certain state officials.
Medojević was not ready to talk about the DF proposal yesterday.
If they choose him as Stanisić's deputy in the committee, and then the government chooses him as a member of the National Security Council, Medojević would sit in that body with Marković, Minister of the Interior Mevludin Nuhodzić, Minister of Defense Predrag Bošković, Minister of Foreign Affairs Srđan Darmanović, Minister of Justice Zoran Pažina, the secretary of that body, Slavko Stojanović, and the head of the National Security Agency, Dejan Peruničić.
Medojević was accused before the High Court of money laundering that the DF allegedly received from Russia and was used to finance the election campaign of that coalition ahead of the 2016 parliamentary elections.
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