If someone thinks that they are exclusively entitled to their own solution as final, that is not a good message and in that way it will be difficult to find some forms of joint action in the future, said the president of the Citizens' Movement URA Dritan Abazović after the opposition meeting about the presidential candidate.
Abazović told journalists that at the meeting of the parliamentary opposition parties, they did not want to be counted and that the opposition colleagues were not ready to find a compromise solution about the candidate.
"The opinion prevailed between two candidates, one, I must state, was completely non-partisan without any political past, without participation in any political structures and governments, and the other who is also very credible, about whom there were no bad statements, but who prevailed as the candidate of one political option, months ago. I don't think that the willingness of colleagues to find a compromise solution or a third solution was shown, and that this made it difficult to create a potential dialogue in the future," Abazović said.
The opposition failed to reach an agreement on a common candidate after the Democratic Front (DF) maintained its position that it should be Andrija Jovićević. DF leaders Andrija Mandić, Nebojša Medojević, Milan Knežević and Janko Vučinić were the first to leave the meeting and did not want to make statements. After them, the President of the United Montenegro, Goran Danilović, left the meeting, followed by the President of the Socialist People's Party (SNP), Vladimir Joković.
Abazović told her that they did not come to the meeting to be counted. "We refused to count ourselves, that was not even the point of this meeting, if we wanted to count ourselves we didn't even need a meeting, we know who's strength is both in the parliament and outside the parliament, however we wanted a compromise solution, today we couldn't achieve it Abazovic said.
He added that an alternative should be seen in the coming days. "I remain optimistic that we can come up with some new strategy, some plan B to meet the demands of the citizens," said the URA president.
Asked if a new candidate will be proposed, Abazović said that the proposed candidates are excellent. "I also want to say that if we were going to have a non-party candidate, if some colleagues gave up their own candidacy even though they had the political strength to enter the race, then we should have found a compromise on such a solution. If someone thinks that exclusively has the right to its own solution as final, that is not a good message and in that way it will be difficult to find some forms of joint action in the future," Abazović said.
He added that, if other parties think it is optimal, "it remains that everyone, in accordance with their agreements, internal, party, bilateral or trilateral, coalition, can offer a candidate or several candidates who would join the presidential race." . Asked why the DF does not give up on Jovićević when the initial proposal that Milka Tadić Mijović be the candidate came from them, Abazović said that this is a question for the DF.
Abazović added that the democratic, collegial and friendly capacity of the so-called civil opposition has reached a limit beyond which it is difficult to go.
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