The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) remains committed to continuing the boycott of the population census, until the legal and monitoring requirements are met, Danijel Živković, acting president of the DPS, announced today at a press conference.
When asked by Vijesta whether DPS insists on fulfilling all 17 requests for maintaining the census and whether there is a possibility to make a certain compromise with the Directorate for Statistics (Monstat), given that they said that some requests have no basis, he said that Monstat claimed three weeks ago that he was ready to hold the census, and today information appeared that they were thinking about postponing it.
"These are representatives of the institution who obviously do not know where they are and all their statements were completely contradictory," he said.
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Živković said that DPS welcomes the intention of Mandatory Milojko Spajić to postpone the census, but that they do not intend to give up boycotting the census until their demands and legal conditions for holding the census are met.
He added that they understand his intention as an invitation to talk and dialogue about the postponement of the census, that is, the implementation and preparation of the census in accordance with legal procedures and the precisely defined conditions for controlling that process.
"This confirms the correctness of the argument of DPS and all other relevant social and political entities that the state was not ready to conduct the census at this moment," said Živković.
When asked by Television Vijesti whether it is true that in Ulcinj DPS activists disrupted the work of enumerators and their instructors, Živković said that this was absolutely untrue, and that he was personally present there.
Although the census was planned to take place from November 1 to 15, the future government, which should be formed at the beginning of next week, announced yesterday that it plans to postpone it by a month.
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Živković said that the question is whether all the conditions for the legitimate holding of the census can be met in a month.
When asked by Vijesti Television to cite an example of an EU country where politicians were present when visiting households during the census, as requested by the DPS in the 10th request for holding the census, Živković said that in 2003 and 2011 there was participation of political entities. in census commissions.
"Both in 2003 and 2011, there was participation of political subjects in census commissions, you had the opportunity to see that documentation," he said.
He pointed out that DPS did not give up the participation of the international community in the census and added that they sent a letter to the European Commission (EC) and EUROSTAT.
Answering the question of Vijesti whether DPS is currently in contact with Monstat, he said that they are not currently in communication with that institution.
"We don't communicate, because we clearly presented our requests to which they responded precisely, but from the submission of those requests to their response, their opinion changed several times," Zivkovic said.
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