The president of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) hopes that the party will regain some of the lost trust in the coming period with the aim of returning to power.
He said this after a session of the Presidency of the Democratic Party of Socialists.
Vijesti announced that the candidates for members of the new DPS Presidency are the party's 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 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.
"Today, at the Main Board, we elected a new composition of the Presidency. This is an operational body that is important for the functioning and work of our party, and I am sure that in the coming period it will make a full contribution to what is our main goal, which is to restore the trust of voters and return to power. What awaits us in the future period is personnel renewal," Živković said at a press conference.
When asked why Janović, Pažin and Bošković are still not in the Presidency, he replied that the president proposes members and that it is a difficult task because the most operational team needs to be selected, and that their base has 20.000 members, and that he believes that such a team will best contribute to DPS's return to power.
"Janović, Bošković and Pažin are people who have held and performed important functions, both in positions in the executive branch, and therefore in the parliamentary and political life of Montenegro. All of them will make a full contribution to what is our basic task - to defend the law in Montenegro. One day you are in one position, the next day in another, there is no mystification except to make this body additionally operational," he said, adding that this is not the final number of people in the Presidency and that it will expand.
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Responding to a journalist's question, Živković said that they expect a convincing victory in the local elections in Nikšić and more than 40 percent support.
"The public does not want those who exercise power," he added.
When asked about double voters, he said that they had informed the Police Directorate, and the police had informed the prosecutor's office, which he assessed as lacking elements of criminal liability, but that they would continue to work on a solution to the problem in cooperation with the NGO sector, "because some people vote in Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina."
"In the coming period, we will carefully address the problem of double voters," he stressed.
He recalled that before 2020, there was talk of phantom voters, but that the then opposition stopped talking about them since they took power.
"Some will say that the burden of responsibility also lies with the DPS. If we had ever had the information we have today, we would have approached the solution to the problem," said Živković.
He added that he would inform the competent authorities about the double-registered voters in Nikšić, but also that the topic must be raised in the Parliament.
When asked by reporters whether he would return to parliamentary life, Živković replied that it would depend on talks between the government and the opposition, and that they had already discussed a solution to the constitutional crisis that arose "when the Constitutional Committee took over the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court."
"It is necessary for the opposition to be active in the work of parliament, but we must not allow the majority to violate the Constitution, behave arrogantly and overthrow the legal order," Živković stressed.
He added that they will see what the epilogue of the talks will be, and that their goal is for Montenegro to be part of the European Union.
He pointed out that they asked that the issues that divide them be put aside until EU accession, but that they did not know whether Mandić would raise them.
"It depends on potential agreements between the government and the opposition and the fulfillment of our demands," he said.
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