The formation of a minority government is not going the way its promoters imagined, because the effect of the consent of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) to exclusively provide support to the new government was absent, according to Deputy and Vice President of Democratic Montenegro Vladimir Martinović.
Martinović, in an interview with the MINA agency, said that it is obvious that the activities related to the formation of a minority government are not taking place according to the ideas of its promoters, primarily the leaders of the Citizens' Movement URA and the Socialist People's Party (SNP) Dritan Abazović and Vladimir Joković.
According to Martinović, what the Democrats warned about from the beginning happened.
"DPS does not support anyone without being able to derive some benefit for itself or, as it were, free cheese is only available in the mousetrap. URA and SNP ended up in the mousetrap of DPS, and they only found holes in the cheese", Martinović believes.
He said that the almost certain presence of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the minority government has its wider context in what has already been said.
As he said, this is just one in a series of DPS conditions "to which, as things stand, URA and SNP will have to agree".
"The presence of the SDP is just one exemplary example on the topic of who will, in fact, be asked in the minority government, although this has been explicitly stated to the URA and the SNP several times," said Martinović.
He said that the issues that arise from this concern primarily the self-respect of the URA and the SNP, but also, even more, the respect of the members and voters of those parties from their leadership.
As he stated, you can hear completely contradictory statements from the constituents of that government, on any topic they touch on.
"There has not yet been a single topic on which we have received anything resembling a unified attitude of all its members," said Martinović.
He stated that the SNP promises to sign the Basic Agreement, the census, and join the Open Balkans initiative, while the SDP excludes the possibility of realizing any of the SNP's promises.
"We also heard from SNP about the existence of some red lines regarding the presence of SDP and SD in that government. However, as time goes on, it seems that all those red lines of the SNP are slowly fading", said Martinović.
He reminded that the Democrats, as he said, responded to the violation of the Constitution and the rewriting of the electoral will, with protests.
"The protests, to a significant extent, messed up the threads of the protagonists of the theft of the hard-won victory on August 30, 2020, because they showed them what the people think about that act. By postponing the implementation of the perfidious plan, they wanted to blunt the edge of popular discontent, but that did not happen," said Martinović.
He said that the Democrats will listen to the will of the citizens and, in accordance with it, plan future activities, "taking strict care not to let down the people's expectations at any moment."
"Certainly let's continue with the protests. The next one is in Nikšić on April 19, the birthday of the party, where, after we elect a new convocation of the Municipal Board in that city and mark seven years without betrayal, we will go on a protest walk", announced Martinović.
Martinović said that in the local elections in Podgorica, we should not expect anything that has not already been seen in Nikšić, Herceg Novi, Mojkovac, Cetinje, Petnjica, Berane or Ulcinj.
"And that is the continuation of the shedding of DPS, but also of its new partners in the announced minority government. Therefore, with the powerful party infrastructure we have, we are sure of victory in Podgorica and other municipalities where local elections are held", said Martinović.
He said that citizens in all municipalities told DPS that they will never be in power again.
"It remains to be seen whether the failures in Berane and Ulcinj will also sober up our partners from the parliamentary majority from August 30, or whether they will continue on the path they took until they completely erased themselves from the Montenegrin political scene," concluded Martinović.
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