The mayor of Budva, Marko Carević, said that forced administration should have been introduced back in October.
He asked if it is hypocrisy what the Democrats are doing at the state level, who are fighting to preserve the electoral will, and they are not doing it in Budva, where for two years they will not conclude a coalition agreement based on what the citizens voted for.
The first man of Budva, in an interview with "Vijesti", said that it is not good to introduce forced administration before the season when the city needs to be prepared, but also reminded that last year in May he said that elections should be held immediately after the summer.
Asked whether he expects the situation to be resolved as in Tivat, that is, that the government will dissolve the local parliament and introduce forced administration, and send commissioners to Budva, Tsarević said: "I don't expect it, I would have liked it to have been in October".
"Back in the pre-season last year, in May, I said that the season should be done, and then we should go to the elections. I think it is very bad to do now. We should have entered the pre-season completely politically stable. However, we only made the situation more difficult, the parliament was blocked and we put our citizens in a checkmate position. We live from tourism, and you can see that, unfortunately, no one talks about tourism", said Carevic.
Asked if there is a chance that the Democratic Front and the Democrats will hold talks in the coming days, and to unblock the parliament and avoid the introduction of forced administration, Tsarević reminded that "the DF responded to the talks, but the blackmail system does not work anywhere else".
"We have a big contradiction. In the elections, the citizens showed their electoral will, which must be respected, and this is clearly not being respected in Budva, because even after two years, the coalition agreement has not been signed. It is disrespecting the electoral will. You see what the same group is doing at the state level, fighting to preserve electoral will, but not at the local level. Let's see if it's hypocrisy, what can you call it," said Tsarević.
The parliamentary service told "Vijesti" that they have not yet received the Government's warning, which was adopted at the session on March 3, and which warned the Bdvan Parliament that it must meet within ten days, otherwise the Government will dissolve the Municipal Assembly .
Citizens are witnesses that for three years since Tsarević sat in the chair of the first man of the city in his first term, in January 2019, the political fights and accusations between the Democrats and the Democratic Front have not stopped.
The Democrats maintained that the departure of Tsarević is the first and only condition for them to sit down with the Democratic Front and conclude a coalition agreement and enter the parliament, which they have been boycotting for half a year.
The Democratic Front, on the other hand, considers this attitude of the Democrats to be blackmail, calling on them to hold a session, adopt the budget, the investment plan and the city development program, and unblock the administration.
In the meantime, the alliance of the Democrats, URA, SNP and Rights of Montenegro, which was formed in November, and which the DF set the condition that they see the arrival of the parliament and the solution to the political crisis in the departure of the leaders of the Municipality and the Municipal Assembly, Marko Carević and Krsto Radović ( Democrats), disbanded after the idea of a minority government was promoted.
Real Montenegro even interfered with the talks between the Democrats and the DF, and invited them to come to an agreement and solve the political crisis, but those negotiations also failed, even the stormy discussion at the last meeting of the councilor clubs of the opposing political blocs only showed that it is impossible to achieve any minimum consensus.
If the session of the Municipal Assembly is not held in the coming days, the Government will, as in the case of Tivat, introduce forced administration, dissolve the parliament, and appoint a committee of commissioners, and Tsarević will remain in the mayor's chair until the elections, which will be called by the President of Montenegro.
Another in a series of meetings on overcoming the crisis failed
On the initiative of the leader of the Budva committee of the Democratic People's Party, Jovan Gregović, a meeting was held yesterday between the mayor of Budva, Marko Carević, and the president of the Municipal Assembly, Krsto Radović, but the last in a series of meetings failed.
Gregović initiated the meeting in order to reach a solution to the crisis and prevent the introduction of forced administration.
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Talks between the Democratic Front and the Democrats failed last week, after councilors failed to reach an agreement on unblocking the parliament.
The Democrats insist that in order to conclude the coalition agreement, it is necessary for Tsarević to leave the position of mayor, and that Radović is also preparing to leave his post.
In the DF, they believe that Radović must resign due to obstructions in the work of the parliament, and they consider the departure of Tsarević as blackmail to which they do not agree.
Radović told "Vijesta" that yesterday he offered Tsarević that both of them should leave their positions after the season, in September, and that the budget and investment plan be adopted by then, which the latter refused.
"I have signed my resignation and will submit it on Monday. My suggestion is that we both leave in a gentlemanly manner after the season. That was not accepted," said Radović.
If the Budva parliament session is not held by the end of next week, the Government will introduce forced administration and send commissioners to Budva.
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