It is possible that new consultations will be needed between the winners of the local elections on the issue of the future candidate for mayor of the capital, said Danilo Šaranović, the holder of the list of Democrats in Podgorica.
He reminded that in the previous period, an agreement was reached about who will be the future mayor of Podgorica, that is, that it will be the deputy president of the Europe Now Movement, Jakov Milatović, who is now the candidate of that party in the presidential elections.
Saranović told "Vijesta" that until this moment the Democrats have not been informed about any change of candidate from Europe now, and as far as he knows, neither have the other colleagues from the new parliamentary majority in the capital.
"I would not like to answer your question to do any political damage to one of the presidential candidates, but it is obvious that it will be necessary to hold new consultations on the issue of the future candidate for mayor. It is understandable that all potential new arrangements, which would be different from the previously agreed ones, a new statement from the party's competent authorities would be necessary," said Saranović, answering the question of whether the fact that the candidate for the new mayor of Podgorica entered the race for the president of the state changed the agreement on the formation of the government in the capital.
Elections in Podgorica were held in October last year, and power was won by Europe Now, a coalition consisting of the Democrats, United Montenegro and Demos, then the Democratic Front and URA.
However, DPS is still in power in Podgorica four and a half months after the defeat, because the head of the Election Commission (IK) of the capital, Veselin Vukčević, from that party, does not allow that body to announce the final election results until the Constitutional Court has ruled on the appeals.
The Constitutional Court, after three judges have been elected, will have a session tomorrow where they will decide on a number of election appeals.
Šaranović says that, if it were up to the Democrats, the government in Podgorica would have been formed in the spirit of the citizens' electoral will already at the beginning of January.
"Although it is not clear to us to this day why all the parties that won the elections in Podgorica did not give clear support to our proposed law that would enable the disempowerment of the DPS and the formation of a new government in the capital immediately after the New Year, today it is clear that the deadlines for the formation of the city the authorities depend on the current president of the Assembly of the capital. That right was given to him because of the failure to adopt the above-mentioned Law on Local Self-Government that we proposed in December," Saranović said.
The president of the local parliament, Đorđe Suhih, told "Vijesti" that he will schedule the session within the legal, permitted deadline, and that he will "see" that it happens as soon as possible.
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