The deputy executive director of the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT), Milena Gvozdenović, announced that abuses of institutional advantage are continuing in the run-up to the local elections held on Sunday.
She said that the "central quasi-event", organized for the purpose of political promotion and achieving institutional advantage, was a police parade through the streets of Podgorica, held on September 26, on the occasion of Internal Affairs Day.
She added that, by the way, the Day of Internal Affairs is October 2nd, and that is after the elections in Podgorica, "so the Škoda parade and the airplane flyover, if it was supposed to be organized at all, could have been organized after the elections".
"The Prime Minister of Montenegro lives for road infrastructure, so he announced that just a few days before the election, a tender was announced for the contractor for the western ring road, and a contract was signed for the conceptual design of the Podgorica-Tuzi expressway. Concern for health was also expressed in the pre-election campaign citizens. The Minister of Health, who is also a candidate for councilor, opened a new angio clinic in the Clinical Center. Ten days ago, he also opened a psychiatric clinic, which was not registered in the cadastre and therefore cannot receive patients, even though the ribbon was cut. If we had waited for those few days, we would have missed the precious opportunity to use the opening of this important facility for the official campaign of the minister/candidate Šimun", said Gvozdenović.
She pointed out that good authorities also care about education in the campaign.
"At the local level, it was not possible to wait for the new parliamentary majority to adopt the decision on free transportation of students by public transport, but the Secretariat for Transport extended the earlier decision at the end of the election campaign. The Ministry of Education completed the process of acquiring a building for the student dormitory, which will as they state to be ready to receive students in 10-15 days, which is after the election, so the opportunity to cut the ribbon was missed. visited by representatives of the Government," the announcement reads.
She stated that the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Andrija Mandić, had nothing to open and build and use for the promotion of his list, so he began to build an inquiry committee that will deal with parliamentary investigations of cases of murders and physical attacks, some of which happened earlier. of 20 years.
"Some of the victims of those attacks publicly thanked him for his attention and asked him not to use them for party and political games," added Gvozdenović.
"At the end of the campaign, information was published that one person was deprived of his liberty on suspicion of having committed a criminal offense of violating freedom of choice when voting, by purchasing identity cards. In the announcement of the Police Administration and the information that the media managed to get from the prosecution, there is no information about which this person was buying ID cards from a political group," the announcement states.
"However, what is not announced by the police or the prosecution, is announced by the Minister of the Interior and a candidate for councilor - namely, he knows from somewhere that the case 'cannot be linked to any political entity from the parliamentary majority'. Since the police is operationally independent from the ministry, and the prosecution independently, the question is whether the minister has any grounds for access to this information at this stage of the political-prosecutorial treatment of the case. This is especially problematic knowing that the minister is an active participant in these elections as a candidate on one of the election lists," Gvozdenović says. .
"It remains to be seen whether this enterprising and zealous government has left some events for the Saturday before the elections and whether something urgently needs to be promoted during the election day itself," she concluded.
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