While the councilors of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) will take an official position today regarding the initiatives to dismiss the mayor of Podgorica Oliver Injac and the shortening of the mandate of the Assembly, yesterday's negotiations of colleagues from the Europe Now Movement (PES) and the Movement for Podgorica have not yet moved from the deadlock.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", DPS will sign both initiatives, which were proposed last week by the opposition councilors of the Social Democrats (SD), the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Liberal Party (LP).
On this occasion, the initiators of the initiative will hold a conference for the media today, it was confirmed by "Vijesta".
At the same time, the councilors of PES and the Movement for Podgorica have not met since last Wednesday, even though their colleagues from the ruling majority in Podgorica allowed them to break the deadline for an agreement.
From the Movement for Podgorica, which consists of five councilors who left PES and are close to the president Jakov Milatović, "Vijesti" was unofficially told that the meeting has not yet been organized and that they expect an invitation soon.
In order for the opposition's initiatives to be on the agenda of the session, they need to be signed by 20 councilors.
To shorten the mandate of the Assembly, which the initiators of the initiative, as they announced earlier, consider a more certain solution, or to dismiss the mayor, the support of 30 deputies is needed, which means that it must also be supported by one of the councilors who now formally form the government. The Podgorica opposition has 24 councilors, which means that they need six more votes to pass the initiative.
In the opposition, they first expect support from the Movement for Podgorica, from which they previously declared that they would not vote for the dismissal of Mayor Injac because they believe that she should not bear all the responsibility, while they did not present a clear position on shortening the mandate of the Assembly.
When asked whether she would support the opposition's initiative to shorten the mandate of the parliament, the councilor of the Movement for Podgorica, Nađa Ljiljanić answered in the show "Reflektor" on June 19 that "she hasn't said that yet and that they should get the initiative these days".
Member of the Citizens' Movement (GP) URA Milena Vuković-Sekulović stated in the same show that her party will not vote for the dismissal of the mayor, but that the decision on shortening the mandate of the Assembly will be made by the party bodies.
In the rest of the authorities, as "Vijesti" previously announced, they are categorical that they will not support the initiatives of the opposition, with the exception of the New Serbian Democracy (NSD), which, if it were a single decision of the parliamentary majority, "would be cooperative as far as the shortening of the mandate is concerned."
Member of the SD Miloš Maskovic announced during the presentation of the initiatives that, if it goes according to plan, the next session must be in the next month and they believe that then they would dismiss Injac or, what is more certain, shorten the mandate of the assembly, which would lead to early local elections that can be expected at the end of September.
There is a crisis in the Podgorica parliament after the March split at the local level, when PES left the five councilors who created the Movement for Podgorica, and with GP URA and Movement for Change (PzP) agreed on joint action. Together they have 11 councilors and are the largest group in the city parliament.
"Vijesti" recently announced that the Movement for Podgorica requires at least two or three directorships, as well as the position of deputy mayor, as well as part of the money belonging to PES from the budget funds for financing the regular work of parties in the local parliament.
Borovinić-Bojović: DPS confirmed that it is the sponsor of the initiative to overthrow the government in Podgorica
The President of the Assembly of the Capital City, Jelena Borovinić-Bojović, announced yesterday that DPS President Danijel Živković, by stating that "the extraordinary elections in Podgorica are an opportunity to rehabilitate trust in DPS", confirmed the information she announced a few days ago - that DPS is the political sponsor of the initiative about the overthrow of the government in the capital and the destabilization of Podgorica.
"Although he said that they did not see August 30 as a defeat but as a lesson they learned, we can see from this performance that this is not the case. In August 2020, the DPS policy was defeated, which this party did not give up, and they certainly did not learn the lesson, which can be seen in the example of the Capital City. When they talk about Podgorica, they again talk about the party's appetites and chances, because as an opposition, they are only fed by instability, and they are not interested in the development of Podgorica and the recovery of the city from their long-term usurpation", she said.
At the Municipal Election Conference of DPS Podgorica, Živković said that DPS "continues the merciless fight for a fairer Montenegro and a better Podgorica".
"We did not understand August 30 as a defeat, but as a lesson to be learned and to continue on, better, wiser and better. We stayed together, strong, as the strongest political entity in Montenegro and we are clearing the way from the opposition while protecting national interests...", said Živković.
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