By refusing to fulfill its legal obligation and schedule a session of the Budva Municipal Assembly (MA), the government continues to undermine the country's legal order and thereby further deepens the political and constitutional crisis, said SDP Vice President and European Union representative Bojan Zeković.
"When the police, by failing to act, essentially assists hooded figures who prevent citizens' representatives from doing their job, and the Government then supports them by refusing to adopt the proposal of the relevant minister and schedule a session of the Municipal Assembly, which is a legal obligation, elections become meaningless and political processes are being deliberately attempted to be moved from institutions to the streets," Zeković said in a statement sent to the media.
He recalled that last week, the Minister of Public Administration Maraš Dukaj proposed to the Government that, based on the Government's imperative legal obligation, the Budva Municipal Assembly be scheduled for January 23rd.
"This item was expressly removed from the agenda at the initiative of the leader of one of the majority parties, which organized the well-known violence by hooded figures in the Budva Municipal Assembly building when councilors were prevented by physical force from constituting the assembly," Zeković said.
After that, he adds, several telephone sessions of the Government were held and this decision was not adopted at any of those sessions.
"We will see how far Spajić's government intends to go in destroying the country's legal order in the next few days when the deadline for scheduling the Budva Municipal Assembly session expires, which is January 27th. Instead of acting responsibly and legally and scheduling the Budva Municipal Assembly, at least in this case, Spajić's government is adding fuel to the fire and further exacerbating the crisis to the point of complete paralysis of political life," said Zeković.
He said that it must be clear to the Government and all actors of the parliamentary majority who are trying to prevent the formation of a government in Budva through violence that they will not succeed in achieving their political goal in this way and that a government for which there is a majority will be formed.
"We hereby once again warn Spajić, as the most responsible person in the state, that he, as the first man in the executive branch, will be the dominant culprit for everything that happens in the Budva case," Zeković concluded.
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