The Democratic People's Party (DNP) called on the ruling coalition to finally start investing in the northern region in order to create new jobs, which are the main prerequisite for the revival of that part of Montenegro, its prosperity and the guarantee of the population's survival.
The official of the DNP, Svetislav Perišić, believes that otherwise the agony of the north will continue until the change of government and the arrival of responsible people in leading positions in the country, who will not make false promises in the elections and divide citizens by place of residence.
"These people will implement a just socio-economic policy, which will aim to ensure that not a single part of the Montenegrin territory is neglected, forgotten and left to bare survival, as the current government has been doing for years, inhumanely and without a shred of civic conscience. the north of Montenegro," Perišić said in a statement.
He stated that it is a well-known fact that the Government, with its bad economic policy, bypassed the north of Montenegro and caused far-reaching damage to its long-term development.
Perišić believes that it is high time that the "stepmotherly relationship" of the Government, which has been discriminating against Pljevlje, Bijelo Polje, Berane, Rožaje, Kolašin and other northern municipalities for many years, should change.
"One gets the impression that those municipalities, which the government forgot, were erased from the map of economic development. That is why there is an imperative need for the government to no longer support the northern municipalities only on paper, but to finally give the north, as unfairly neglected, a chance and take measures for its economic and overall recovery," Perišić said.
He said that the current regime advocates for even regional development only declaratively, so in practice there is no progress, because for years there has been a limit on Bioč for all major investments.
Perišić reminded that in the cabinet of Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, there are two vice-presidents from the north of Montenegro, who fit in and fully contributed to the Government's policy of ignoring that part of the country.
"With not a single move, neither of them contributed to doing anything about the development of the north. It is important for them to hold on to their seats and Podgorica, to strictly take care not to bother the prime minister about the neglected north, which he himself has given up on, except when he needs votes for the elections," said Perišić.
He added that such a state's attitude towards the north is unacceptable for the DNP, which results in devastating statistics on the high unemployment rate and increasing population migration.
"The entire economy of the north has been destroyed. "The working class no longer exists, so former workers with miserable severance pay, ten times less than those in Podgorica, were abandoned to the streets and became social cases," said Perišić.
He announced that many of those workers were happy that, as victims of the transition, according to the recently passed law, they would be able to receive some kind of pension, but that most of them remained short-handed, because the law only applies to those who lost their jobs. due to bankruptcy.
"Techno-economic redundancies, for which the vast majority of workers from the north were declared, are not covered by this legal solution. That's why, for example, in Bijelo Polje, out of several thousand workers of former companies, only 32 have the right to this pension, which is a devastating and shocking fact," said Perišić.
He believes that all this shows that the government treats the inhabitants of the north as second-class citizens, does not want to hear their problems and meet them.
"The government reduces every communication with the citizens to the famous pre-election promises that they will live better, related to the development of agriculture and tourism, of which, as a rule, there is still nothing," concluded Perišić.
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