Government officials at the state level have not yet decided how they will participate in the elections in Podgorica on September 29, and some of them are still advocating a broad coalition that would include all parties of the parliamentary majority.
The source of "Vijesti" from the parliamentary majority said yesterday that there is no agreement on a joint performance yet, which was also indirectly said by the Prime Minister. Milojko Spajic at a press conference on Wednesday.
Spajić said that the Podgorica PES Board has not yet proposed to the Presidency a model of performance in the Podgorica elections.
"There are more options, but we will see," Spajić said.
As "Vijesti" previously announced, PES is considering three options - an independent performance, a coalition with the Democrats and a broad coalition that would include the majority parliamentary parties (Democrats, New Serbian Democracy, Democratic People's Party, Socialist People's Party, Bosniak Party).
Head of the Parliamentary Club of NSD Dejan Djurovic announced on Wednesday that the parliamentary majority, "which remained committed to the victory achieved in the fateful elections on August 30, 2020", and which today is also embodied in the executive power, should go out together in the local elections in Podgorica.
Such a position was recently expressed by the Minister of Tourism and an official of the NSD in a guest appearance on TV Vijesti Simonida Kordić.
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In case of an independent performance in Podgorica, NSD and DNP will probably be led by the head of the Podgorica parliament Jelena Borovinić Bojović. The holder of the list of Democrats in the event of an independent performance will be the current Minister of the Interior Danilo Šaranović, while PES will decide between the current mayor Oliver Injac and the Minister of Energy and the head of the Podgorica PES Board Saša Mujović.
In the elections two years ago, PES won 13 mandates, and the Democrats (with coalition partners) won six.
For now, it is certain that the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), the European Union, and the Party of European Progress (SEP) of the former prime minister will run independently in the elections. Duško Marković, the list of the recent Minister of Justice Andrej Milović, the Forward movement of the former Minister of Justice Marko Kovač, the Reversal movement and some other smaller political entities. It is possible that BS will perform in the same way.
Negotiations are still ongoing on the appearance of a coalition consisting of the Movement for Podgorica, the Civic Movement (GP) URA and the local Movement for Changes (PzP), within the political bloc that gathers the head of state Jakov Milatovic, and a source from the Movement for Podgorica said that it should be presented to the public soon. That list will probably be headed by the deputy mayor of Podgorica and an official of the GP URA Luka Rakcevic. A source from GP URA said that 65 percent of the seats on the electoral list should belong to them, and 35 percent to the others, which the representatives of the other entities from the potential coalition denied.
On Sunday, Milatović confirmed for Dan that he will participate in the election process in Podgorica "because he cannot watch from the sidelines the hope for change".
"That's why I have the responsibility to be involved in the election process in Podgorica. I will soon inform the public in what way," said Milatović.
Former Minister of Justice and former member of PES Andrej Milović will present his list today. It will be on his Podgorica list, as "Vijesti" has learned Drago Đeković, who at the suggestion of Milović (when he was a minister), was chosen by the Government in February as acting general director of the Directorate for capital, international and projects from EU funds in the Ministry of Justice.
Milović's list includes Jelena Brajković Stevović, Maja Gardašević (NGO "Diši", which deals with the protection and rights of oncology patients), Nemanja Vukićević, Nikola Kovačević Kovo..
Lista Milović, Kovač, which will be led by the director of the Health Insurance Fund Vuk Kadic, and Marković, this will be his first appearance at the polls, Preokret participated in the previous elections in Podgorica and some other municipalities, while the European Union, whose list will be carried by the SD representative Boris Mugoša, performing for the first time in this format in the capital.
The deadline for submitting ballots for the elections in Podgorica expires on September 3 at midnight.
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