The members of the Presidency of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) are party MPs Nermin Abdić, Nikola Milović, Nikola Rakočević and Oskar Huter, the first man of Šavnik Jugoslav Jakić, the leaders of the Mojkovac and Bar DPS Predrag Smolović and Mladen Đuričić, the head of the Plav parliament Alen Balić and the former president of the Andrijevica Municipality Srđan Mašović.
The members of the Presidency by function are DPS leader Danijel Živković, vice presidents Ivan Vuković, Jevto Eraković, Aleksandra Vuković Kuč and Abaz Dizdarević, head of the parliamentary caucus in the state parliament Andrija Nikolić and party secretary general Aleksandar Bogdanović, as well as the party's political director.
"Vijesti" recently announced that one of the candidates for the new political director of the DPS is the party's MP Mihailo Anđušić. This position was not in the Statute adopted at the 2021 Congress, but it was before that.
The new DPS Presidency will not include the previous members - former Minister of Justice Zoran Pažin, former leader of Bijelo Polje Aleksandar Žurić, former Minister of Defense Predrag Bošković, MP Nikola Janović, Professor Draško Došljak and former Director General of the Directorate for the Promotion and Protection of Minority Rights Leon Đokaj.
The members of the Presidency were elected by the party's Main Board (at today's session), and proposed by the head of the DPS. The Main Board was elected at the recent DPS Congress.
After the Presidency is elected, Živković should propose the composition of the General Secretariat - the Secretary General, the Political Director, the Business Director and the DPS Spokesperson. The Presidency should then appoint the members of the DPS Executive Board.
Janović was not at the Congress, criticized the introduction of the title of honorary party president
Nikola Janović, who will no longer be a member of the DPS Presidency, was not present at the party's Congress held on February 16. He had previously expressed criticism of the introduction of the title of honorary president of the party. The former long-time DPS leader Milo Đukanović was elected to that position.
Janović stated that "the concept of honorary presidents... in any party is not particularly familiar to him," and that introducing that title leaves it "to someone's imagination and the propaganda of other parties to draw their own conclusions and additionally spin and impose a narrative in the public space, for which there is no need."
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In an interview with "Vijesti", Živković said that Janović himself said that Đukanović had no ambition to run the party from the shadows, which he confirmed with the personal example of never having the slightest intervention in his political work.
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Đukanović was elected honorary president at the Congress, as a sign, as it was said, of gratitude for participating in the achievements of the previous period of that political generation.
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