Democratic Montenegro called on the parliamentary majority in the Assembly, as well as the Government, to prevent "anarchy and lawlessness" in Šavnik and to provide citizens who have tied their fate to that city with "free and fair elections and to clean up the voter lists."
The Democrats stated that this would prevent the situation where "thanks to thirty years of manipulation by the DPS, Šavnik has 1.588 residents on the census, and as many as 1968 voters on the voter list."
They also point out that perhaps "behind this whole story that is happening in Šavnik, there is an extremely insincere attitude of the parliamentary majority to resolve the anarchy that reigns in the small town of Šavnik in the best possible way."
The party also stated that Šavnik could become a phenomenon and gain councilors whose mandate, despite the legal limitation, could last indefinitely.
"The DPS councilors' club also has the privilege of being able to shorten its mandate whenever it wants and reactivate it according to needs. We must agree that this is a phenomenon that truly does not exist anywhere in the world. Although the Law on Local Self-Government in Article 37 states that the mandate of councilors lasts four years, the DPS councilors in Šavnik, as they interpret it, can last indefinitely. But what is tragicomic in this whole story is that such and such a councilors' club goes even further and, in an unconstitutional and illegal manner, elects Jugoslav Jakić as mayor for the second time at the session scheduled for February 1, 19. He is being elected for the second time, because his mandate expired on February 2025, 18."
He added that the question arises as to how the Mayor of the Municipality, Jugoslav Jakić, has a limited mandate, while the mandates of his councilors cannot be shortened by either the Constitution or the laws of Montenegro.
"It is clear to everyone that this is an unprecedented anarchy and arbitrariness of a group of people who, even after the expiration of their councilor mandates, are trying to falsely present themselves to the public as completely legal and legitimate representatives of the citizens of Šavnik, even though their election was in 2018, more than seven years ago. However, let us also note that the Šavnik Municipal Assembly has already shortened the mandate of its councilors once, immediately before the introduction of compulsory administration in Šavnik, learning from the actions of Nikola Jovanović in Budva, who shortened the mandate of the Budva Assembly in order to avoid the introduction of compulsory administration. Now another question arises, how, according to which law and which article of the Constitution, councilors who shortened their mandates can activate it again and elect the president of the municipality of Šavnik at the scheduled session."
The Democrats announced that perhaps behind the whole "story and anarchy that is happening in Šavnik, lies the extremely insincere attitude of the parliamentary majority to resolve this anarchy that reigns in the small town of Šavnik in the best possible way."
"We cannot help but ask them, after the introduction of compulsory administration in Šavnik, why did they withdraw compulsory administration over the backs of the citizens of Šavnik and thus open the door wide to such lawlessness that reigns in our city? If the compromise measure was the Committee for Comprehensive Electoral Reform, let us ask them whether that committee even met after the withdrawal of compulsory administration and whether it passed a single electoral law and forwarded it to the plenum of the Parliament of Montenegro," it was announced..
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