DPS: Abolition of free speech in the Assembly is a consequence of the ruling majority's guilty conscience

"If in the meantime Speaker Popović had not become a champion in the abuse of the presidency in the Assembly, to the extent that she allowed the Democrats' ministers to enter the parliamentary debate like paratroopers, even though they were not in the role of authorized representatives of the Government, perhaps we would have heard the synchronized complaints of the parliamentary majority about her alleged threat from opposition MPs, gentlemanly kept silent, because citizens have seen everything they need to see"

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The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) announced that "the dictatorship of the parliamentary majority entered its terminal phase during today's session of the Assembly, when Speaker Zdenka Popović did not allow the opposition MPs to use their business right to procedurally speak."

"The organized devastation of the parliament, which began with the election of Andrija Mandić - an official with illegal dual citizenship, and later continued with the prime minister's four-time failure to attend the prime minister's hour and the brutal political tranching of the chairman's desk, today experienced its culmination with the implementation of violence against representative democracy under the direction of vice president Zdenka Popović. Yes Speaker Popović, in the meantime, did not become a champion in the abuse of the presidency in the Assembly, to the extent that she allowed the Democrats' ministers to enter the parliamentary debate like paratroopers, even though they were not in the role of authorized representatives of the Government. to the alleged threat from the opposition MPs, they remained silent, because the citizens saw everything they needed to see. And they saw the deprivation of the MPs' right to free speech, which is guaranteed by the rules of procedure," said the DPS.

they also pointed out that when the two-thirds parliamentary majority, "unknown in European circles, and the most cumbersome government in the world", fear the voice of the opposition, then it is clear "how fragile the foundations of such a coalition of interests are".

"If they were sure that they had improved the quality of life for citizens by passing anti-systemic laws in the Parliament, PES and the Democrats with 20 ministers in the government would not have hidden their ratings by forming a coalition to meet the elections in Podgorica. Nor would inflation of promotional content be necessary to convince citizens that they improved their standard of living. However, today's nervousness and violence had another goal. To silence the opposition regarding the purchase of identity cards and the importation of voters from Serbia and the Republic of Srpska it is the day when the parliamentary majority will be delegitimized to manage the country," the DPS statement concluded.

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