The rule of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) in terms of the number and size of affairs cannot be surpassed by anyone, and no one in Europe can be compared to their governments, according to ruling parties.
Former Prime Minister and MP of DPS Dusko Markovic on Thursday, in the program "Nachisto" on TV Vijesti, he said "that in a short time there are more affairs in the offices of the prime minister and ministers than they have had in 30 years".
Official of the United Montenegro (UCG) Goran Danilović, he told "Vijesti" that it is impossible to enumerate the affairs of the governments of the former prime minister and the current president Milo Đukanović.
"They are truly incomparably more than during the four years of Marković's 'rule'. It is important, however, that it is about continuity and that Marković did not hide it. It is not even normal to compare such and such governments with this one, which will soon mark its first year. DPS governments cannot be compared to any in Europe, and Europeans know it as well as we do," Danilović assessed.
Marković said that the citizens decided what kind of change they wanted and that DPS did not create this kind of change.
"Citizens opted for a different choice and they see what kind of change they voted for. You talked about the affairs of our government, and now there are more affairs in the cabinets of prime ministers and ministers in a short time than we have had in 30 years," said Marković.
He added that "this government cannot enter the parliament and get approval for its policies".
Danilović assessed that former Prime Minister Marković "lived in some parallel world, some universe of his own", and that this Government does not have affairs, but it does have misunderstandings, which "is by no means the same".
"Honestly, the mindset that forgets what kind of affairs and scandals the three-decade-old government has arranged for us is worrying," Danilović said.
He pointed out that Marković's Government brought Montenegro to its feet with scandals with the adoption of the discriminatory Law on Freedom of Religion and for the first time in the last 50 years arrested and detained bishops, clergy, youth, children...
"His Government prolonged the completion of the highway construction. At the end of his term, his government had the biggest drop in GDP ever due to the incredible plan to fight covid. When Albania and Croatia achieved more than 50 percent of the income from tourism compared to 2019, its tourism economy turned black," said Danilović.
He recalled that during the mandate of the Marković Government, the "Resist" protests, caused by the Envelope affair, continued:
"That government set again (Veselin) Veljović for the director of UP, and (Zorana) Lazović returned to the Service. She forbade the entry of writers and historians to Montenegro, and lifted the ban (Veljka) Belyvuk and the company".
Danilović assessed that Marković's government "agreed to blackmail Priština" and agreed to a new demarcation of the state border. That Government, as he said, granted concessions for the construction of small hydroelectric plants, during its mandate the Plantations collapsed, and "never was tobacco smuggled as during that mandate, and the results of the fight against smuggling were more modest."
The Socialist People's Party (SNP) said that as far as the observations of former Prime Minister Duško Marković are concerned, "no one can surpass the rule of the DPS in terms of the number and size of wrongdoings and affairs".
"Marković himself is aware of this, but he is trying to put a stain on the current government with such lamentations," they told "Vijesti" from the SNP.
That party states that "DPS, as all citizens know, has ruined Montenegro in all aspects and caused it to stumble in every sense, starting from moral to economic".
"That's why the remarks of Duško Marković are more than tragicomic and do not deserve a more serious comment", they state from the SNP.
Vice-president of the Civic Movement URA Jovana Marović, she wrote on Twitter that "former Prime Minister Marković says that during the rule of the DPS, the laws were respected:
"Limenka, Snimak, Korveta, Telekom... are applauding", she said, alluding to undisclosed affairs.
Vice-president of Demos Ksenija Milović, she said yes Marković may be speaking from an "awakened state", since he represents a group that was not accountable to anyone, nor did it find it necessary.
"This first of all refers to the Government, and they made local self-government bodies the biggest employers, so people competed for the chair (in the past it was not possible to accommodate all employees in the office).
"Do we need to remind that his government and party mostly pretended to be deaf and dumb to the warning reports of the European Commission and Freedom House," Milović asked.
She added that Marković's statement - "that because of dealing with strategic issues of the state, they forgot a little about ordinary citizens" says a lot.
"On the other hand, the new government, especially the Government, should have serious work, the integral part of which is the transparency of all contracts and engagements, so that citizens who are fed up with fraud and misuse of social funds, remove all doubts about the further functioning of the state," she said. Milović.
Increasing coalition capacity is the goal of DPS
DPS President Milo Đukanović said yesterday that one of the important goals of his party's reforms is to increase coalition capacity.
"I think it would be impolite to suggest to any political subject in Montenegro what he should do within his party. Therefore, my advice, let's let the DPS do what they know best. We have started reforms, we have not finished them, they have a clear dynamic", said Đukanović at the 2BS Forum in the Splendid Hotel in Bečići.
Marković said that the DPS sees itself "in cooperation with the Democrats, GP URA".
"These are civic parties. They have a problem with us because we were in power for 30 years, because we had some wrong policies, a negative perception was formed because of our long rule. We are definitely the party with the greatest potential...", said Marković.
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