The SDP will elect a leader tomorrow

Yesterday, the party announced its visual identity, its general slogan with which it went to the presidential and parliamentary elections - "State for everyone".
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Illustration, Photo: SDP
Illustration, Photo: SDP
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Ažurirano: 28.06.2019. 15:11h

The ninth regular congress of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), at which the new president of the party and the Main Committee will be elected, will be held tomorrow in Cetinje.

Yesterday, the party announced its visual identity, its general slogan with which it went to the presidential and parliamentary elections - "State for everyone".

The only candidate for party leader is Draginja Vuksanović Stanković, MP and member of the party's Presidency. She previously said that she was proud of her candidacy and said that the SDP is the only party that has achieved all of its strategic state goals written down at the very beginning of Montenegrin multipartyism almost three decades ago - both an independent and civil Montenegro, NATO membership and the EU path. "Of course, we are also aware of all the mistakes we made along the way. The SDP is a party that left power after all these achievements, believing that the situation in the country needs to be changed, that Montenegro is not equal to all of us, that we live in a country where the party is stronger than the state, that there are privileged individuals and interest groups, that more and more of young people leaves Montenegro because of the poor socioeconomic situation," Vuksanović Stanković said.

She announced the rejuvenation of the party, that is, the opening of space for a new generation of leaders. If she is elected, she will currently be the only leader in Montenegro. Before her, they were Vesna Perović (LSCG), Milica Pejanović Đurišić (DPS) and Marija Vučinović (HGI).

Former SDP leader Ranko Krivokapić decided to step down from the party leadership after SDP councilors with DPS dismissed the mayor of Kotor, whose party was a partner at the local level. Krivokapić will be the honorary president of the party, which will be decided by the congress through amendments to the party statute. Instead of three vice presidents, two will remain and a deputy president will be introduced.

Krivokapić has been the head of the SDP for 18 years, since 2001.

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