Europe Now Movement (PES) MP Vasilije Čarapić assessed that the announced election of the mayor of Šavnik by the illegitimate Šavnik Municipal Assembly via, as he said, the Zoom application would represent an unprecedented act of collapsing the constitutional and legal order, which would open the door to political anarchy, the consequences of which are difficult to imagine.
He recalls that the councilors of the Šavnik Municipal Assembly "who are usurping power" were last elected in 2018, when 1.395 voters were registered on the voter list.
"In the elections scheduled for 2022, electoral engineering was carried out, on the basis of which the ruling coalition registered hundreds of people on the voter list immediately before the elections, so the number of voters in Šavnik in 2022 was 1.968. This directly caused a political crisis in Šavnik of unprecedented proportions, since the population of this small municipality does not want to accept that people who do not live in Šavnik decide their fate. How unfair this situation is is also shown by the fact that just a year after this election tourism, 1.569 residents were registered in Šavnik, or 399 fewer than there were voters in the 2022 elections," Čarapić wrote on the Iks network.
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This kind of abuse of the electoral and political system is, he says, unthinkable in democratic societies, primarily because in democracies there is no party that is "so pathetic" that it violates the rules and humiliates the local population to this extent.
"Montenegro is an exception, and in our country that party is called DPS. It is the same party that 'defends the state' from its citizens by ruthlessly stealing from them for decades, that declares that a constitutional coup has occurred when their staff meets the requirements for old-age pension, that blocks the work of the Parliament and institutions when they see that the concept of the rule of law is being literally applied and protected. Ups and downs are an integral part of the life cycle of every being, including political parties, but it is difficult to find an example of a moral launch like the one that DPS is showing in the example of Šavnik," said Čarapić.
He adds that a solution is always possible, and in order to preserve interpersonal relations in Šavnik itself, he believes that it should be sought through dialogue.
"If there is no will for it, or if those who should talk are so trapped and oppressed that they are not even allowed to simulate constructiveness, then it is enough for them to be passive and not cause incidents when someone who is a greater idealist tries to solve the problem," said Čarapić.
He called on the SD to call on their councilors not to participate in this "political suicide" and thereby demonstrate in action that their "prepaid moralizing" has some basis.
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