The electoral roll that we have today, due to the still unreformed electoral legislation, is nothing more than the essential legacy of those who governed the country for more than three decades. It was they, who are now criticizing, who created and maintained that list, it was announced from Demokrat.
The president of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Danijel Živković announced today that on the voter list for the local elections in Podgorica on September 29, there are more than 3.300 people who have the right to vote in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity Republika Srpska and Serbia.
The Democrats said that it is symptomatic that possible objections are highlighted only now, when the voter list has been closed and when there is no longer any possibility for any changes.
"The question that arises is: why didn't they react earlier, when they had full control over the process, why didn't they delete the imaginary faces they suspect? It is especially interesting that such 'theatrical' performances appear at the very moment when DPS is massively losing councilors, as happened today in Cetinje. It seems that this is more of an attempt to divert attention from their internal problems and the loss of political power. it is stated in the announcement.
They pointed out that DPS's press conference does not act as a sincere concern for the alleged irregularities, "but as an attempt to seek justification for the inevitable almost 30th defeat in the last four years in local or state elections.
"We have already witnessed their decline in the parliamentary elections in 2020, then in the parliamentary elections in 2023, then in the presidential elections, all the way to local elections throughout Montenegro - from Budva, Kotor, Andrijevica, Nikšić, Herceg Novi, Mojkovac, Cetinje. , Berana, Ulcinja, Gusinja, Podgorica, Tivat, Žabljak, Danilovgrad, Plužina, Zeti, Pljevlja, Kolašina, Rožaja, Tuzi to the rare ones where they still exercise power, even if on shaky legs and with a drop in support in the elections, until the new defeat and defeats in Podgorica and Kotor in the following days. Each of these defeats further showed how much their political influence has weakened," the announcement reads.
The Democrats said that this pressure now comes as an attempt to cover up the inability of the DPS to retain the trust of the citizens, "while simultaneously trying to delegitimize the elections knowing in advance that another in a series of defeats awaits them."
They add that in this regard, they do not want to open the issue of the registration of their officials in the voter lists of other countries.
"Such maneuvers are nothing new, but a well-known strategy of those who have already lost contact with reality and support among voters. The messages they send are not an attempt to face the truth, but a signal that they themselves are looking for justifications for what is coming - another defeat, another a confirmation that the political scene of Montenegro has changed permanently. Instead of dealing with constructive proposals, DPS is returning to old templates and thus additionally losing support that it can no longer regain," the announcement concludes.
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