The Assembly today appointed the presidents and members of the Assembly Committees and the Commission for Monitoring the Privatization Procedure. The list of proposals for candidates for parliamentary committees was supported by 66 of the 41 deputies present, 20 were against, and 5 abstained. 60 deputies voted for the president and members of the Commission for Monitoring the Privatization Procedure, one abstained, and one was against.
Maksim Vučinić (RP) was elected as the President of the Commission.
Member of the Democratic Front (DF) Milan Knežević was elected president of the Security and Defense Committee, and representative of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Branimir Gvozdenović was elected president of the European Integration Committee.
Daliborka Pejović, member of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), was elected president of the Anti-Corruption Committee.
Members of the Democratic Front (DF), Marko Kovačević, Simonida Kordić and Jovan Vučurović, were elected presidents of the Legislative, Constitutional and Human Rights and Freedoms Committees.
MPs from Democratic Montenegro Momo Koprivica and Dragan Krapović were elected presidents of the Committee for Political System, Justice and Administration and the Committee for Tourism, Agriculture and Ecology.
Deputy of the Socialist People's Party (SNP) Vladimir Joković was elected president of the Committee for Economy, Finance and Budget, and Božena Jelušić, deputy of the Citizens' Movement URA, was elected to the Committee for Gender Equality.
Demos MP Miodrag Lekić was elected president of the Committee for International Relations and Emigrants, and Social Democrat (SD) representative Damir Šehović was elected president of the Committee for Education, Science and Culture.
MP of the Black and White coalition, Srđan Pavićević, was elected president of the Health Committee.
Živković: We cannot support Vučurović because of his views on other minorities, Srebrenica...
The president of the DPS Parliamentary Club, Danijel Živković, said that they accepted the division of the board, although there was no understanding that the Committee for Economy, Finance and Budget belonged to the DPS.
"Regarding the personnel composition of the committee, I have a reservation for the Committee for Security and Defense and the Committee for Human and Minority Rights. We cannot support the decision for the Committee for Security because it is about a parliamentarian who was sentenced by a first-instance verdict for the crime of terrorism to five years. We respect the presumption of innocence, but we cannot ignore these facts," said Živković. He added that they cannot support Vučurović being the head of the Committee for Human and Minority Rights, because of his views on other minorities, Srebrenica and because he is a supporter of the patriotic gathering in He called Podgorica "neo-Nazis" in September.
Radunović: We supported Škrelja even though everyone knows what we think of him
Slaven Radunović (DF) said that they supported Luiđ Škrelja (DPS) as the deputy president of the Administrative Board, although everyone knows what they think of him. "For what Milan Knežević was convicted of and everything you did to him, he should be proud and it should be a recommendation for him that he passed the way he did in a staged coup and corrupt action by prosecutors and courts," said Radunović.
It is, as he added, as if in the Republic of South Africa they were protesting that Nelson Mandela should be the president after so many years in prison and after being a dictator. Responding to criticism of Vučurović, Radunović stated that what Vučurović says, which was mentioned as problematic, "to the greatest extent stands for every citizen of Montenegro who votes for us".
"None of us is justifying any crime, that is not in dispute, but the political qualification of the crime is not something we want... A great crime happened there, many people were killed, and in other places a lot of people were killed, but it was not declared genocide ..", Radunović said.
He said that "it is a living truth that 'Viva Montenegro' is a neo-Nazi greeting from 1941.
Andrija Popović (LP) responded, saying that it was not a greeting created in 1941, but in 1851, and it was used to welcome the Montenegrin ruler Petar Petrović Njegoš on board the ship in Naples.
Damir Šehović (SD) asked to vote on presidents and board members individually by board, which was not accepted.
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