The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) today nominated the head of its parliamentary caucus, Andrija Nikolić, for the position of president of the parliamentary inquiry committee, a body that will investigate politically motivated murders and attacks on journalists and intellectuals - "Vijesti" has learned unofficially.
According to information from "Vijesti", they did so after Parliament Speaker Andrija Mandić sent them a letter stating that they had the right, as the strongest opposition party, to propose that the head of the committee be one of their two members of that body. They proposed MP Oskar Hutter as the other member.
This means that the ruling majority has given up on the idea of proposing a candidate for the head of the committee. Mandić announced that the body would be led by the opposition United Montenegro MP, Vladimir Dobricanin. The opposition said that it would not participate in the work of the committee if Dobricanin led it, or if a candidate for president was imposed on them.
Five members of the inquiry committee will be elected by the Administrative Committee from among the opposition MPs, and five from among the ruling majority. The decision to form the inquiry committee was made by the legislative chamber on 20 February.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", the Social Democrats (SD) have nominated MP Nikola Zirojević as a member of the survey committee.
Mandić announced in the fall that the parliamentary clubs of his New Serbian Democracy and Milan Knežević's Democratic People's Party would launch a parliamentary investigation into the murders of former federal defense minister Pavle Bulatović and former editor of the newspaper "Dan" Duško Jovanović, as well as the attacks on journalists Željko Ivanović, Tufik Softić, Olivera Lakić...
"We don't have organized crime here that has sprung up spontaneously. Behind many murders are the fingers of the former regime. We want a debate to be opened, for people to be held accountable before a committee of inquiry," he said.
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