The opposition will not attend the vote on the budget proposal for this year, which the parliament is supposed to decide on today - it was confirmed to "Vijesti" by some of those parties.
A source from the strongest of them, the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), said that they do not intend to prevent the ruling majority from voting on the state treasury.
"It's not possible for us, as a state-building party, to break inventory in the Parliament... No one disputed the need to adopt the budget, we just didn't want to agree to an artificially forced dilemma - budget and money or Constitution and democracy. Because for them (the majority) it was not possible to have both," the interlocutor stated.
The president of the highest legislative chamber, Andrija Mandić (New Serbian Democracy), on Monday ordered the removal of most opposition deputies from the plenary hall, because they recently prevented the holding of a session at which a decision on the treasury was to be made. The opposition claims that the Constitution was violated because the parliament, without the mandatory notification of the Constitutional Court, decided in mid-December last year to declare the termination of Dragana Đuranović's judicial function in that court, due to her reaching the conditions for retirement. They demanded that things be returned to "the previous state", saying that, otherwise, they would not allow the highest legislative chamber to work.
On the same day that Mandić announced the measures, the session continued after representatives of the ruling majority entered the hall through one of its side entrances. In front of it, as well as at the other entrances, there was a reinforced presence of parliamentary security (police officers), who were there to allow the opposition members who had been ordered to leave to enter the hall. Vijesti reporters recorded two such attempts, and they passed without incident.
The parliament continued to sit after Monday, but still none of the opposition members who were ordered to leave tried to enter the hall.
The reason for the easing of tensions could be that Mandić's alliance "For the Future of Budva", after obstructions, allowed a change of government in that municipality, i.e. the return of DPS to its leadership after eight years.
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