Pajović: For us, the government is not a sack that needs to be patched up by someone, as some 18-year-olds are

"We enter this government with integrity, we enter with electoral legitimacy, unlike others who entered the government without even participating in the elections. Then you have the credibility and integrity to move things forward," Pajović said.
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Darko Pajović, Photo: Luka Zeković
Darko Pajović, Photo: Luka Zeković
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Ažurirano: 05.06.2016. 08:30h

The President of the Parliament and the leader of Positive Montenegro, Darko Pajović, says that this party entered power with electoral legitimacy, unlike others that entered power without even participating in the elections. Pajović told Radio Antena M that DPS will have the unequivocal support of Pozitivna in all projects and decisions that bring real progress to Montenegro.

Regarding whether the official entry of Pozitivna into power should be understood as an announcement of a long-term partnership with DPS and minority parties, Pajović said that DPS, from all its strength in Montenegro, on the path of European and NATO integration and on the path of good economic projects to have the support of Pozitivna.

"In the field of internal economy, neither DPS nor any other party with this pace of economic development, or more precisely the average salaries we have, will have support, on the contrary, they will have a fierce critic in Pozitivna. For us, the government is not a bag that needs to be patched up by someone, as someone patched up for 18 years, kept silent and then after that, after being kicked out of power, started to explain how nothing is right in this country. On the contrary, we enter this government with integrity, we enter with electoral legitimacy, unlike others who are in power entered without even being in the elections. Then you have the credibility and integrity to move things forward," Pajović said.

He believes that the country is moving forward and is not bothered by the fact that many saw his election as the President of the Assembly as a political trade. It is categorical that this election is not compensation or the final act of any agreement that possibly preceded the vote of Positive for confidence in the Government on January 27:

"To say no very clearly".

He explains that the plan for overcoming the political crisis, which Pozitivna offered at the end of January, as conditional support to the Government, was the only kind of offer and agreement they had with DPS:

"So we had a very simple opportunity to pick up positions, as media parties do today. We could have agreed on that type of compensation upon entering the government, where they might replace someone and get over a thousand and a half official positions."

They were not guided by those interests, says Pajović. He adds that they have not yet signed a coalition agreement with DPS. They function, as he says, on the basis of agreement.

"We found an understanding with our partners, with a mutual agreement, so we don't have any coalition agreement. We witnessed that they often told us why there is no coalition agreement".

Pajović points out that what happened to the members of Pozitivna after they supported the Government must never happen again to anyone in Montenegro. Despite this, he maintains that their decision on January 27 was the only correct one.

"You can only imagine what would have happened in Montenegro if there had been, say, the fall of the government. Then there would have been tens of thousands of people on the streets chasing like rabbits just because they think differently. Institutions would not have helped in the onslaught of primitivism," says Pajović.

He claims that he feels ready and able to restore order in Parliament. He says that the situation in the Parliament is not good, because there is, as he said, a big delay in the adoption of the law. About 200 legal acts need to be adopted by the deputies by the end of July. According to Pajović, his goal is to unblock the Assembly:

"It is not impossible to put it in order and return it to the level by which we were recognizable in the region and beyond. It seems that political will was absent, personal or political interests prevailed. With the election of the new president of the Parliament, rest assured, that is a thing of the past. I will to do our best to return to those paths that we were all proud of, regardless of which political option we belonged to, and I am sure that I will have a sufficient number of colleagues who will support me," Pajović said.

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