Democratic Montenegro will not end its boycott of the parliament, its leader, Aleksa Bečić, announced, stating that the members of that party can only come to the session of the Assembly where the conditions for holding extraordinary elections would be defined. When asked what his position is regarding the statement by the president of the Social Democratic Party, Ranko Krivokapić, that he expects new negotiations between the opposition and the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), which would be led by Prime Minister Duško Marković, could begin soon and that he expects Marković to initiate them, Bečić answered that they will not end the boycott of the parliament without fulfilling the clearly proclaimed conditions. "As far as the Democrats are concerned, I don't see any sense, purpose, because it is not unknown in Montenegro that we should explain to each other a little closer and create certain representations for the public," said Bečić after the meeting at the Delegation of the European Union (EU). in Montenegro. As he said, they know what the problems are and what the solutions are. "Here you go, gentlemen, the ball is in your court, we're not looking for anything for ourselves. "You want to accept the repetition of parliamentary elections, and then for certain working groups to create the conditions for a session to be held where changes to electoral laws would be voted on and a decision on extraordinary parliamentary elections would be made, that process is possible," said Bečić. But, as he announced, the only session where the Democrats can appear is the one where they would define what someone had previously promised, and it concerns the extraordinary parliamentary elections and the legal conditions for the most favorable electoral environment in the part of the free choice of voters. "Nothing beyond that, because we really looked at all the unproductive processes in the previous period," said Bečić. He said that Montenegro is in a dramatic crisis. "In the state, there is a continuity of crisis and political fraud by the DPS in order to find a solution to get out of the crisis". As he stated, boycott is not something that is a happy solution in democratic countries. "But we are not in a democratic country, we are in the only country in Europe where the government has never been replaced in elections," he added. That is why, Bečić believes, the boycott is a forced solution. "This is something the opposition is forced to do, because we are not fighting for ourselves, we are not looking for anything for ourselves, we are looking for elementary conditions for free and fair elections". Bečić assessed that the boycott is the most effective means of what is available. As he said, Montenegro is at a crossroads today. Bečić pointed out that the great strategic goal of Montenegro is to enter the EU. "But finally the opposition, in the form of these progressive structures led by the Democrats, has the opportunity to have an active position in relation to the strategic goal of Montenegro, while the DPS is passive. Because everyone is aware that the DPS, this group of authorities and these individuals who are leading the processes in Montenegro today, can never bring the country into the EU," said Bečić. As he believes, DPS can never close chapters 23, 24 and 27, and cannot implement the necessary economic reforms. "Only a constellation of new, clean and professional people, who are not burdened by the past and who do not depend on any formal or informal centers of power, can do this," Bečić concluded.
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