The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) committed to a dialogue on the formation of a technical government by accepting the decision on the formation of the Committee for Comprehensive Reform of Electoral and Other Legislation, the opposition claims.
The continuation of the work of that parliamentary body is scheduled for Monday and the opposition, according to currently available data, did not come up with a new proposal after Branimir Gvozdenović (DPS) said at the last session that the technical government is not acceptable for the ruling coalition.
Prime Minister Duško Marković also rejected the opposition's demands for a technical government three days ago, stating that the executive branch has no role in the election process. However, the general secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Ivan Vujović, claims that the ruling party is running away from the dialogue it committed to.
"We remind the Prime Minister that by accepting the Decision on the establishment of the Committee for the Reform of Electoral Legislation, his party committed itself to a dialogue on the technical government as one of the models for the implementation of the agreed legal solutions. Marković should answer why his party refuses dialogue on the key topic of the election process and violates the decision it voted for in the parliament," said Vujović and warned that the prime minister is most responsible for political stability and the country's European path.
"He is obliged to take a serious look at the issue of huge mistrust in the electoral process and not to announce positions that he himself does not believe in." A serious approach by the prime minister would be to show his willingness to start a dialogue on all important issues for the election process, including the technical government," he told "Vijesta".
The opposition insisted on this topic at the meeting with the ambassadors of the EU member states two days ago. According to the claims of unofficial sources, the ambassadors invited the opposition to continue working in the Committee, but they did not link it to the technical government. Democrat MP Vladimir Čađenović claims that DPS is running away from the solution it committed to. He warned that the DPS is backing down and trying to obstruct the entire process. "First they tried to implement cosmetic reforms, so we foiled their plan. They tried to avoid the Brussels plan, against which they fought vehemently, so they accepted it until the last comma. They wanted to impose the solutions of party working groups, so we canceled them and imposed working committees. Now again under the pressure of the Democrats, the DPS is trying to escape from what it committed itself to," Čađenović claims.
It doesn't matter what the government is called
Čađenović reminded that the Board should propose a model for the implementation and supervision of the agreed solutions: "If this is the task of the Board, then it must also be the executive body that implements it, and according to the Constitution it is the Government." Whether it will be called technical, transitional or something else is completely irrelevant".
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