The Municipality of Pljevlja will pay 26.392 euros to political parties that won mandates in the Municipal Assembly in the local elections held on October 23 last year.
Money will be paid to political parties and coalitions in proportion to the number of mandates won.
To finance the costs of the election campaign, the Municipality planned an incomplete 33.000 euros, with 20 percent of the money being paid to parties and coalitions after the Municipal Election Commission (MEC) confirmed their electoral lists. The decision on the distribution of money, political parties and coalitions was made by the Secretariat for Finance of the Municipality of Pljevlja only yesterday, after the MEC announced the final results of the elections, five months after the elections were held.
The most money, EUR 9.314, will go to the Democratic Front, which won 12 mandates in the local elections, and EUR 6.986 will go to the DPS-BS-SD-SDP coalition for the nine mandates won. The coalition of Democrats, the Movement for Pljevlja and United Montenegro, which won seven mandates, will receive 5.433 euros, and the Movement for Europe will now receive 3.104 euros for the four mandates won. The coalition of SNP and URA, which won two mandates in the local elections, will be paid 1.552 euros.
The recent blockade by the Constitutional Court allowed the DPS to receive twice as much money from the municipal budget several months after the lost elections compared to what it would have received for financing its work if the local government in that city had been constituted immediately after the local elections. On the other hand, due to the delay in announcing the final election results, DF was left without significant income.
Of the nine council seats, one belongs to the Bosniak Party, so the DPS will have only eight councilors in the future convocation of the local parliament, 10 less than in the current convocation.
According to the financing decision, all political parties that have councilors in the Pljeval parliament receive a monthly fixed part in the amount of 259,5 euros, plus a variable part that depends on the number of councilor seats won by the party in local elections.
After DPS, Democratic Montenegro, which has seven councilors, currently receives the most money, 1.920 euros. The New Serbian Democracy and the Democratic People's Party each receive 823 euros a month, and the Socialist People's Party and the Movement for Pljevlja 615 euros for two councilors each.
The Social Democrats receive the least amount of money from the municipal budget - 437 euros. while the Bosniak Party, even though it has only one councilor as SD, will receive 702 euros per month, thanks to the participation of women in the work of the local parliament.
In the new convocation, the Bosniak Party will also have one councilor, while the Social Democrats, whose candidate was in tenth place on the electoral list, were left without a councilor seat.
Even councilors who did not win the trust of citizens in the last local elections still receive councilor fees.
Last year, the Municipality of Pljevlja allocated over 180.000 euros for the financing of political parties represented in the local parliament, compensation for councilors and the rental of premises.
Most of the taxpayers' money, more than 125.000 euros, was set aside for the work of political parties that have councilors in the Pljevlja parliament, and 70.000 euros of taxpayers' money was set aside for councilors' fees.
For compensation to councilors, some of whom rarely have anything to say about the topics that are on the agenda of the local parliament, the Municipality pays a monthly fee of 150 euros, and the president of the club of councilors 175 euros.
For the regular financing of women's organizations in political entities, that is, the financing of their regular work this year, the Municipality will pay about 130 euros per month to the parties represented in the local parliament.
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