We will vote for the shortening of the mandate of the Assembly of the Capital City of Podgorica, announced Jevrosima Pejović, councilor of the Movement for Podgorica.
She said this at today's press conference in the Assembly of the Capital City.
Member of the Movement for Podgorica Nađa Ljiljanić said that they will not vote for the dismissal of the mayor of Podgorica, Olivera Injac, because someone has to be the mayor in the interim period.
The session of the Assembly of the Capital City where the dismissal of Injac and the shortening of the Assembly's mandate will be discussed will be held on Wednesday, July 24.
Ljiljanić said that they would start the conference with the platform of the Movement for Podgorica.
"The principle on the basis of which the current Europe Now Movement (PES) and its leader Jakov Milatović won votes in the elections is based on good governance. Good governance implies responsibility. We wanted the responsibility promoted by Milatović to not only mean accountability from election to election , but a sustainable future," Ljiljanić pointed out.
She added that because of her former party comrades, they have to point out some items of the platform.
"The first principle is the concept of good administration, and it cannot be measured by functions. We will return the mandate to the citizens. The next principle is the principle of public responsibility. Someone leaves the ruling party that has a prime minister and ministers. We have a different approach. The elections in Podgorica happened to we would have real changes. Whoever wants to understand the idea and accept our vision has an agreement with us. We have to get out of partisanship and political trade," said Ljiljanić.
In response to a journalist's question, she said that the more they negotiated with their colleagues from PES, the farther they were from an agreement.
Pejović said that the mayor of Podgorica, Olivera Injac, does not organize work in the capital city.
"Yesterday's statement by the parties of the ruling majority that they will review every coalition at the local level means that they are aware of the situation in the capital. We will vote for the reduction, but we hope that the rest of the government will too, because they are colleagues with whom we share basic principles," she said. is Pejović.
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Ljiljanić said that trust in PES has been completely lost.
"We made the decision to return the mandate to the citizens. We are responsible to the citizens and cannot act contrary to that. We will not vote for the dismissal of Injac, because someone must be the mayor in the interim period. We have not remained susceptible to trade and blackmail. We expect the support of all colleagues who don't expect their uncle the prime minister to decide things for them," said Ljiljanić.
Pejović said that "colleagues from PES are really agreeing with the opposition".
"I call on my colleagues from the government to return the mandate to the citizens together. It's not important to replace, but to change the system. That's what our colleagues from PES forgot when they got the chance," she said.
She said that the elections have not yet been announced.
"Of course we showed tolerance, capacity for cooperation, coalition. We don't have an agreement with anyone on a joint performance, but we see the possibility of cooperation with many, above all Block 11. Before the elections, we have to see who will vote for the reduction. After the elections - the Movement for Podgorica is aware that he can't do it alone, and that's why we want to cooperate at the level of program coalitions. We don't want the same situation to repeat itself, where we'll be forced to vote for people we don't know, whose biography we don't have principles. We will go for meritocracy first," said Pejović.
Ljiljanić said that they expected the support of the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, because, as she said, they remained faithful to the principles that he promoted and on which he won the elections in Podgorica.
"The Movement for Podgorica will present its mayor - a person who will change the city and make it European. The mayor's report was saved by the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS). We will see if the reduction of DPS will make it impossible again in cooperation with PES," said Ljiljanić.
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