MPs of PES threaten about the appointment to the EPCG Board of Directors: If the decision is not changed, we will call a pres...

The extraordinary Assembly of shareholders of Elektroprivreda Montenegro is scheduled for today at noon, because, allegedly, some officials of the Europe Now Movement (PES) are asking to revise the decision adopted yesterday at the Government session and to appoint Radovan Bijelić (PES) to the Board of Directors of EPCG.

The controversy about this was conducted in the "WhatsApp" group KlubPES, and it was started by Professor Vladimir Bakrač, which Vijesti had an insight into.

He did this after it was announced that the new members of the EPCG board of directors will be Milutin Đukanović from New Serbian Democracy (NSD), Neven Gošović from Democratic Montenegro, Bojana Savić from PES and Tahir Đonbaljaj from the Democratic Alliance of Albanians.

According to announcements, it is planned that the Shareholders' Assembly will nominate them today together with the three independent candidates previously proposed by the Minister of Energy, Saša Mujović.

Đukanović and Đonbaljaj are also members of the previous convocation of the board. Đukanović and Savić have degrees in electrical engineering, Đonbaljaj is a civil engineer, and Gošović has a degree in law.

Savić was proposed after a sharp polemic by civil activists who questioned the work experience of the originally proposed PES candidate, Radovan Bijelić.

"Dear colleagues, in the past few days there has been a hunt for our colleague, Radovan Bijelić, MA, Master of Economics, a candidate from the parliamentary list, and he is a little short of entering the Assembly as a deputy. I believe, and this is the opinion of everyone from NK, that fake Twitter accounts cannot judge someone and that a decision that was made in the party's bodies, at the presidency, and then confirmed in the minister's cabinet, and all of which was published on TV Vijesti, cannot be changed in this way. Because of all of the above, colleague Uglješ and I, out of respect for the honorable Bijelić family, all the people of Nikšić that we represent, as two professors of the University of Montenegro, are forced to inform you that due to the pressure of a large number of board members, we are forced to, if the decision made last night is not changed, call a press and let's inform the public about everything, as well as our further actions in the Parliament," Bakrač wrote.

Two ministers reacted to Bakrac's message - Filip Radulović and Maida Gorčević.

"Unprecedented selfishness. In fact, we saw it with Radinka and Jevrosim", wrote Radulović, and his colleague stated: "Personal interest before everyone else. Well done", wrote Gorčević.

In a telephone conversation with a Vijesti journalist, Bakrač initially confirmed that he was the author of the message, and then said that he had not confirmed anything and threatened to initiate proceedings in court - if that information was published.

The News also contacted Uglješa Urošević, who said that "there is no turbulence" and that the public will be informed about everything after the Assembly session...

The executive director of EPCG, Ivan Bulatović, who chairs the EPCG Shareholders' Assembly, announced that they are waiting for information.

"Consultations with the majority owner are still ongoing. You all know what was on the agenda today. We are waiting for information from the majority owner to start the scheduled Assembly. The Assembly should be held today. The session must be held today. If no agreement is reached, the Assembly will be postponed in accordance with the Company's statute," said Bulatović without specifying what kind of "agreement" it was.

Minority shareholders are outraged by the behavior of the Government. As they pointed out, this is disrespect for the shareholders and this is the first time this situation is happening.

"As far as the Government of Montenegro is concerned, we think that this is frivolity. Do they think that we function like them. This is a serious company, how will it be when the three experts proposed by the competent ministry for the EPCG Board hear this. Where do they come, in such a an unorganized system as far as the Government is concerned. Do you think this is Prime Minister Spajić or Minister Myjović? They just got where they are at the expense of the people. This is us, the minority shareholders. This is a pure humiliation of the minority shareholder and shareholder institute. We are the people who invested money in this company. And this is how the company is managed. This is a shame for the state," said minority shareholder Golub Bojanić.

Nataša Backović, a minority shareholder, said that the Assembly was not scheduled according to the law because they did not receive the biographies of the proposed candidates for the Board of Directors.

"We responded, respected you as managers, only to experience humiliation from some representatives of political parties there that did not even exist when Elektroprivreda existed... It is unnecessary to discuss this government when, even after the three hours we have been waiting here, they have not managed to information is given, but political trading is done. We are not a political party, but EPCG, the strongest economic entity in Montenegro," said Backović.

The Extraordinary Assembly of Shareholders was supposed to start at noon. Minority shareholders and journalists are patiently waiting for the beginning of the assembly without concrete indications that it will be held.

EPCG Acting Secretary Predrag Krivokapić previously postponed the start of the Assembly twice due to, as he said, administrative and technical conditions, and now Bulatović has done it, citing consultations in the Government as the reason.