The formation of a new government requires time and patience, and the combination of expertise and experience of politicians could be good, said Zoran Stojiljković, a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.
Political analyst Cvijetin Milivojević has a similar attitude, and he expressed the hope that parties will rise above party interests.
Discussions about how the new government would function, and the overall package of division of departments, began on Wednesday and at the very start got stuck on matters of principle. From whether the percentage of votes won is crucial for the agreement, whether the government should be political or expert, whether the negotiators are holders of election lists or presidents of parties...
"Vijesti" interlocutors witnessed the formation of the first opposition government and government in Belgrade, after the victory of the motley coalition DOS.
When asked if it is worrying that the beginning of the negotiations of the three coalitions that won the parliamentary majority in the parliamentary elections in Montenegro is marked by slow progress and misunderstanding, they state that the first messages from Podgorica are encouraging, that we need to have understanding for politicians who have been in power for decades. the opposition.
"For the convenience of opposition activity, they themselves have to step into serious political shoes. "Politics requires difficult compromises, especially in situations like this, which should lead to some positive outcome and change," Stojiljković told "Vijesti".
Milivojević reminds that the first government that was formed in Serbia after the republican elections in 2000 was an expert government, as a result of an agreement within DOS... Most of the ministerial positions, he reminds, were held by experts who were allegedly not party activists but were close to certain parties and coalitions.
He reminded that the then-mandate Zoran Đinđić agreed to compromises, allowing small parties to get the posts of Deputy Prime Minister, Vojislav Koštunica's party several ministerial posts, while key positions - economy, finance and similar - were given to experts.
"Experts came from America, Germany... but the vice presidential positions in that government were held by politicians - leaders of those small parties from the then DOS. It is that kind of combination of a classic expert government and what will happen in Montenegro, that we will have an expert government in which there will also be politicians", he said.
When asked if he expects there to be problems when the government is formed in Montenegro, he pointed out that he hopes that parties will rise above party interests.
"Unlike the aforementioned DOS, they signed an agreement that binds them. That Agreement is precisely a measure, I call it the 'smallest common denominator' - what actually unites those three opposition blocs within the mega opposition bloc that counts 41 MPs, and not what divides them... It is also important that they defined themselves - they called it a transitional government that will last for two years", said Milivojević.
He pointed out that it is logical that there should be politicians in the expert government: "There is nothing wrong with that. It is important that the man who leads the government, for example if it is (Zdravko) Krivokapić or someone else, is not a party figure, especially when it comes to him who in a short time has gained a lot of authority and a kind of charisma even though he does not have the strength of a political parties".
Zoran Stojiljković said that the moves made by the leaders of the three coalitions were encouraging, but that things would not go quickly and that "politicians have their own appetites".
He says that an expert government is a utopia and that in Serbia in 2000 it was doomed through the phrase of the then expert Mlađan Dinkić, "profession above politics". Dinkić later swam into political waters himself.
"Practically, the combination of a political expert government is a better solution, since there are messages that expert people with reputation and integrity should be elected, but there must also be political actors who will have political support. You cannot keep aside political wolves who have been in politics for two or three decades now. That is not realistic and can be counterproductive," said Stojiljković.
Talks on the formation of a new government continue today, and on Wednesday there is a constitutive session of the Assembly, where the president of the parliament should be elected.
The members of the negotiating team have full legitimacy, Krivokapić trusts them completely
The parties delegated representatives to the negotiating team of the Coalition "For the Future of Montenegro", expressing full confidence in their negotiating abilities.
These are people with enormous political experience, including in the sphere of inter-party negotiations - let's not forget that each of them is part of the closest party leadership - and all the views they express are also the views of the parties they represent, according to the answer from Zdravko Krivokapić's team.
"Vijesti" asked him and other parties why the package of the new government is not discussed by the party leaders.
The answer states that the leaders of Nova, the Movement for Change and the Democratic People's Party support his efforts and are actively working to create the conditions for reaching an agreement as soon as possible:
"The negotiators acting on behalf of those parties have full legitimacy, and I consider their presence a confirmation of the commitment of the leaders of NSD, PzP and DNP to a common goal".
PzP responded that leader Nebojša Medojević has full confidence in the coalition's negotiating team:
"If there are some open questions and dilemmas during the negotiations, the leaders of the parties will also be involved. This is the usual practice of negotiations. The coalition around the DF is the backbone of the new government and we have a large selection of personnel who can responsibly and professionally lead the negotiations at this stage ", they state from that party.
The SNP confirms that they are represented by Vice President Dragan Ivanović.
"The SNP most sincerely supports the agreement that was recently signed by the leaders of the three coalitions and believes that the key and most important goal of the new government is the dismantling of the reborn DPS regime down to the last screw. Professor Krivokapić has the full support of the SNP in all previous activities, and will have it in future activities as well".
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