"New data on the use of the budget reserve during the pre-election campaign analyzed by MANS show that in the week in which the local elections were held, the Government of Montenegro paid another 52 thousand euros as aid to citizens on the basis of damage from natural disasters," MANS announced - a.
As they say, the mentioned funds were paid based on the decisions made by the Commission for the Assessment of Damages from Natural Disasters headed by Zoran Miljanić, minister without portfolio, and it is about 37 individual payments ranging from 50 to 5.500 euros.
They emphasize that this is the second large payment of this type of assistance given by the Government of Montenegro since the announcement of the elections, and it is interesting that during the previous year, 2021, there were no payments from the budget reserve on this basis.
"MANS previously announced that in mid-October a payment of close to 50 was made on this basis, which makes a total of over 100 euros that the Government of Montenegro has distributed to citizens since the announcement of the local elections," the announcement states.
They add that part of these decisions are available on the website of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) and show that the Commission for the Assessment of Damages from Natural Disasters made them at the end of July, but also that the payment was made only after the elections were announced.
They claim that, "the Commission hid the identity of the persons to whom the money was paid in the decisions on the payment of compensation for damage caused by the disaster, which further reduced the transparency of spending money from the budget reserve".
"Insufficiently clear criteria for the payment of money from the budget reserve, and the additional efforts that the executive power invests in hiding data on the spending of public funds, open up a huge space for abuses during the pre-election period," concluded MANS.
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