The civil movement "Resist" called on the opposition to leave the parliament and begin an active boycott of the next elections, after the Democratic Party of Socialists rejected their request to form a civil unity government.
President of the Committee for Comprehensive Reform of Electoral and Other Legislation Branimir Gvozdenović (DPS) said two days ago that the technical government is unacceptable for DPS and its coalition partners.
He said that his party will have a position on the possible proposal of the opposition, but that "there is no dialogue on this as you see the technical government".
Recalling that the opposition MPs pledged in the Agreement on the Future not to give up on a government in which they, representatives of the government and independent experts would make up a third, in the "Resist" movement called not to violate the agreement.
Independent MP Neđeljko Rudović said that the opposition proposal will be submitted to the Committee.
Yesterday, he assessed that the DPS did not reject negotiations on a technical government, but revised its position again.
"As he did not want to negotiate at all, so he agreed. Just as he didn't want to talk about the technical government, now he wants to talk about it. A technical government is on the table, and we will see what it will look like, what the opposition will stand for. If we were to give up the technical government, they would agree to leave the cheese to the mice," Rudović told TV Vijesti and announced the consultations of the opposition, the civil sector and the international community.
Democrat MP Momo Koprivica claims that DPS wants to avoid the adoption of reform solutions that would stand in the way of electoral crime through false concessions.
He said that the Democrats will remain in the Committee and pointed out that the DPS will accept a technical government.
"The DPS will certainly agree to a technical government, but it is procrastinating so that the opposition will give up the Agreement for the Future and the model of the Government that it foresees," he said.
The Democratic Front (DF) will not be involved in the negotiations on a technical government until the issue of canceling the parliamentary immunity of Nebojša Medojević is resolved. "Vijesti" interlocutors from that political alliance said that for them "Medojević is a priority" and that there is no talk of a technical government while the persecution of the DF is being carried out.
MP Milutin Đukanović told the MINA agency that a technical government is necessary, but not a sufficient condition for holding fair and free elections.
"Technical government is, as mathematicians would say, a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for having fair and honest elections... The most dangerous thing is to try to reach an agreement in the opposition, and more than 20 opposition MPs do not participate in that deal. If anyone thinks that the potential agreement that would be reached would bind the rest of the opposition, they are seriously mistaken," Djukanovic said.
In the "Resist" movement, they state that "the opposition should leave all the false institutions of the system - the Assembly, the Committee for Electoral Legislation and other bodies, find a minimum of unity and start all kinds of extra-institutional struggle and active boycott of the next elections".
"Citizens should prepare for daily and persistent protests until conditions are created for the first fair and free elections and institutions are freed from general corruption and political influence," they state.
They warn that the institutions are trapped and corrupt, while the ruling coalition rejects the civil unity government. They also reminded that the economic situation is increasingly difficult while Montenegro is facing scandals after which any responsible government would fall.
The opposition parties previously demanded that the dialogue on the formation of a technical government begin by October 22, thereby conditioning the continuation of work on electoral reforms.
After Gvozdenović refused the request, the Democrats announced that they would not support the election laws if a model for implementation was not agreed upon that the opposition would stand behind.
Damjanović: The boycott is completely legitimate
Independent MP Aleksandar Damjanović believes that the option of boycotting the elections at all levels is completely legitimate at the moment and that it will depend on the government's willingness to enter into dialogue, but also on the relations within the opposition.
"After giving up the dialogue on the technical government, and I hope, the adequate response of certain colleagues that has been announced, we, the signatories of the Agreement on the Future, should make it clear that without a government of civic trust, which would implement a fair election process in a technical sense, we simply cannot enter into an unequal election game", said Damjanović to the MINA agency.
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