Budva members of the Municipal Board of the Social Democratic Party should decide today who will be the new leader of that party in the metropolis of tourism.
Thus, 37 members will decide who will lead the party in the 2016 election year in Budva.
The top of the party expressed a positive opinion about the two submitted candidacies - the former president of the SDP Budva and the current director of the Maritime Dobr, Mihailo Đurović, and the candidacy of the former vice president of the Municipality of Budva, Ljubomir Filipović.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", the Municipal Board is more than divided, i.e. both candidates firmly hold positions among "their" members.
Đurović led the party for the previous four years, while that party was in a solid coalition with DPS.
The SDP and the DPS party won the elections in 2005, and from then until August 2015, they managed the city together.
At that time, according to information from the Special Prosecutor's Office, the Budva budget was damaged by tens of millions of euros due to embezzlement, which is why a dozen municipal officials, mostly from the ranks of the DPS, including two former mayors, ended up in custody.
Đurović, performing the function of municipal finance secretary for ten years, made a strong political impact.
For years, the opposition assumed that the SDP secured political benefits from managing that public company, but that party regularly denied it.
Filipović was elected to the position of vice president in 2013.
During his mandate, he manifested an oppositional course and it was he who caused an uproar on the Budva political scene as well as on the state level, when he withdrew his signature on the contract for the sale of municipal land in Dubovica to the Arab Royal Group.
Filipović assessed that the contract was harmful, so his attitude was considered hostile by the local DPS.
Filipović subsequently opposed the election of Srđo Popović to the position of the President of the Municipality at the party bodies. The members of the SDP were restrained when voting on Popović, demanding that the parliamentary convocation be dissolved and elections be called.
The DPS responded by dissolving the coalition, and then by dismissing all SDP cadres from municipal positions.
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