Popović: It is likely that the government will not vote on the basic contract on Friday

The president of the Liberal Party, Andrija Popović, said, after today's meeting of the leaders of the parties that support or participate in the executive power, that there was no agreement on whether the fundamental contract with the Serbian Orthodox Church will be voted on at tomorrow's Government session.

"Probably not tomorrow," Popovic said.

He said that they had come "in quite a difficult position".

"We are trying to solve the problems through dialogue, unfortunately everything happens at the moment when the main tourist season begins, which Montenegro should live off of for the next year. Some things that are not so important came to the fore, and not the reason why we constituted the minority government, and that is the European agenda. I am not sure that we are on the right track, but it is good that the dialogue has started. I believe that these problems will be solved in the next few days, everyone has expressed good will," said Popović.

When asked whether the Government will make a statement on the Basic Agreement tomorrow, he answered that the agreement will be up to the Government tomorrow.

"There was no agreement on whether it will be voted on, probably not tomorrow," he added.

What "disappointed all of us", as he said, was that the members of the Government and the vice-presidents "did not know anything about that document", but that it "came out in front of them out of the blue".

"The conclusion is that there was no transparency and that will be corrected and that will affect that in the next 10 or 15 days, credible lawyers will help to correct it. There were 11 of us present, the majority said that, and what he says the prime minister is a certain amount of populism. The contract is supported only by the prime minister and the president of the SNP. I am not optimistic, we have reached a dead end, because the prime minister and Joković insist that the basic contract must be signed urgently. If it comes to that, the government will not live to see 100 days." Popović assessed.

The majority of party leaders, as he said, were in favor of the fact that almost all articles and the preamble are disputed and that in the parliament it does not have the support of 36 deputies out of a total of 46 from the majority.