The current mayor and leader of the Budva Democratic Front Milo Bozovic he announced talks with parties that won council seats in Sunday's local elections, in order to form a broad coalition government in that municipality.
He told Vijesti that the door is closed only to the Democratic Party of Socialists, with whose representatives, he said, there are no negotiations.
The Democratic Front managed to win the trust of half of the voters in the local elections on Sunday and won 18 out of a total of 33 council seats in the local parliament. Božović was thus enabled to independently manage the metropolis of tourism for the next four years.
As he told "Vijesta" that he will invite representatives of the Citizens' Movement URA, who won one mandate, as well as the Socialist People's Party, which also won the trust of citizens for one council mandate, to talks.
He confirmed that the invitation will also be sent to the Democrats, who during the pre-election campaign directed almost the main blade of criticism towards Božović.
The political war between the Democrats and the Democratic Front in Budva has been open since the beginning of 2019, when after the rotation in the seat of the first man of that municipality, after the leader of that party Dragan Krapović the then DF leader sat down Marko Bato Carevic. To some extent, the hatchets were buried during the summer of 2020, when they were united by the violent change of power of the DPS, but soon after the triumphant victory in the elections on August 30, 2020, the political conflict between these two political blocs started again, which escalated in April this year. Then the Government, after the local parliament had not been in session for more than half a year, introduced forced administration. Since then, Budva has been managed by the Board of Trustees.
Now, after the elections, Božović says that he wants reconciliation in Budva, "inviting all representatives of the parties and coalitions that won mandates, except DPS, with whom there are no negotiations".
"I want to hear their thoughts. Now after such a long time, there will no longer be an opportunity for any political blackmail, I want the most capable people to take positions in the positions. We have a big job ahead of us, because the plan we outlined and with which we won the trust of the citizens we want that the appointment of people in positions does not depend on politics, and that has not been the case in Montenegro since 1945. Politics should be in the Municipal Assembly, and in the executive power expertise and ability," said Božović to "Vijesta".
Božović told "Vijesti" that there was no room for DPS representatives before the election, stating that there were no negotiations with DPS.
"None of us can forget what that criminal group did to Budva. All citizens know that we are the ones who fought for the public interest of the citizens, and against the DPS. We were beaten, arrested, convicted and those processes are still they last," he said then.
After announcing the victory and triumph in the local elections, Božović said that "the victory in Budva is the biggest victory in Montenegro over the organized criminal group called DPS".
"They didn't win nine mandates, although that would be a historic minimum. DPS won five mandates out of 33 and that clearly tells them what Budva thinks about them. Not about these people who were on the DPS list, but about their bosses," he said. is Božović.
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