Movement for Podgorica (PzPG), close to the President of Montenegro Jakov Milatović, three-fifths (60 percent) of the seats on the list assembled by the head of state for the upcoming elections in the capital should go, a little more than a third (35 percent) should go to the Citizens' Movement (GP) URA, and the rest (five percent) Movement for Changes (PzP) - learned unofficially "Vijesti".
Today at noon, the president will meet with the leader of the GP URA Dritan Abazović, the high funkiconer of that party Luka Rakčević and a candidate for councilor Nadjom Ljiljanić, to present the list "For a better Podgorica - Jakov Milatović", which will participate in the elections scheduled for September 29. As stated in the announcement, it will be led by Rakčević.
"Vijesti" has learned unofficially that at the top of the list, on behalf of GP URA, should be, among others, the councilor and vice-president of that party Milena Vuković, member of the URA GP and former Minister of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism Ana Novaković Đurović, General Secretary GP URA Mileta Radovanić, president of the Youth Forum of that party Stefan Vukmanovic, councilor and member of the Presidency of GP URA Miodrag Đuranović...
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When it comes to PzPG, they should be represented at the top of the list, according to unofficial information from "Vijesti", Nađa Ljiljanić, secretary for finance of the Capital City. Balša Spadijer, councilor of PzPG Dragutin Vučinić...
As for the PzP, according to "Vijesti" information, there should also be a councilwoman on the list on behalf of that party. Anika Bajić.
PzPG, which is close to Milatović, was created by a split in the Evropa Sad Movement (PES). At the end of February, Milatović left that party, of which he was one of the founders, saying that the previous way of working of PES was contrary to the promises and values that he had in mind during its creation. He was the second man (deputy president) of that party, which he created with Prime Minister Milojko Spajić two years ago and which during that time won the presidential and parliamentary elections and took power in several cities, including Podgorica.
On several occasions after leaving PES, when asked by the media if he was planning to form a party, Milatović answered by saying that currently Montenegro is his party, but that if "democratic processes demand it" of him, he will not run away from "that responsibilities".
Recently, however, he said that as a "responsible politician, as a native of Podgorica, who is vitally connected to the city", he cannot watch from the sidelines "the crushing of 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. This is my city. I was born there. I grew up there. My children were born there. I want to continue living there," he said. .
Although the deadline for the submission of electoral lists expires in seven days, so far only the Party of European Progress (SEP) of the former prime minister has done this work. Duško Marković, whose list was confirmed last night. Some of the other parties have defined the arrangement in which they will go to the polls, while some are still discussing it.
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In addition to the SEP, the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), the European Union, and the list of the former Minister of Justice will stand independently in the elections. Andrej Milović, the "Forward" movement of his predecessor in office Marko Kovač, the movement "Revolution" and some other smaller political entities. It is possible that the Bosniak Party will act in the same way.
Close to an agreement on a coalition are PES and the Democrats, as well as the parties of the former Democratic Front (DF) and smaller pro-Serbian parties.
The Podgorica committee of the DPS was supposed to confirm the decision of the party's Executive Committee on determining the electoral list, which will be led by the MP, late last night. Nermin Abdić. After the board does that, the DPS Presidency should verify the decision.
According to the unofficial information of "Vijesti", there will be no deputies on the DPS list, except for Abdić. According to unconfirmed information from "Vijesti", they should be there, among others Andrija Klikovac, Maja Miročević Rotolo, Stefan Ćulafić, Vladan Arsović, Ksenija Aranitović, Šukrija Žuti Serhatlić, Danilo Mugoša, Maša Šturanović, Tijana Vidaković... Some of them are already councilors in the Podgorica parliament.
"Vijesti" announced ten days ago that the DPS is weighing between whether to include mainly new, or less well-known and unknown persons on their list, or the most recognizable ones from the state parliament. A source from that party said at the time that they were in this dilemma for two reasons.
"Firstly because, according to the new Law on Prevention of Corruption, it may be decided that MPs can no longer be councilors. The second reason is that the question is whether, because of the whole story, it would be better to go to the elections with new people," he said. then the interlocutor.
The elections in Podgorica are scheduled for September 29, after the mandate of the local parliament was shortened at the end of July by the votes of the councilors of the opposition, PzPG, GP URA and one PzP councilwoman. The outgoing government in Podgorica consists of PES, a coalition gathered around the former DF, Demokrata and GP URA.
The deadline for submitting ballots for the elections in Podgorica began on August 17 and will last until midnight on September 3.
DPS: There are no old faces on the list
A source from DPS said last night that there is not a single official of "local and state government from an earlier period" on that party's list.
"The idea was to motivate party activism with new faces, and for citizens to recognize people who are not the embodiment of positions. This was also done by omitting MPs from the list. They are not there so that positions do not overlap, and that people in councilor positions dedicated only to that," said the interlocutor, saying that the DPS insists that all councilors participate in the work of the local parliament.
The source added that 50 percent of the list will be women.
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