Part of the opposition, whose suspension from the Parliament has expired, is unofficially saying that they hope to soon return to the parliamentary benches, and that they want the agreement on resolving the political crisis to include the inclusion of the Venice Commission in the process, and to put aside "issues that divide the public."
A source for "Vijesti" from one of these parties said that now, after the end of the distancing measure, they are waiting to hold a new meeting with the Prime Minister on overcoming the crisis. Milojko Spajić (Europe Now Movement), and that they believe that this could happen in the next few days.
"I hope we can return to parliament soon. When that happens, we want the focus to be entirely on the EU (European Union) agenda," the source said.
Spajić's party also says unofficially that a new round of negotiations could be held soon, since, they add, some of the opposition members have served their sentences imposed by the Speaker of the Parliament. Andrija Mandic (New Serbian Democracy).
A ''Vijesti'' source from the Europe Now Movement (PES) said that who will make the request to the "Venetians" to get involved should be a matter of agreement. He states that they have actually returned to the beginning of the crisis resolution process, when the agreement was to request the opinion of the Venice Commission.
When asked why the meeting was not held on Tuesday evening, as planned, interlocutors from the government and opposition responded that one of the participants had other commitments, without specifying who.
The first meeting took place on January 19th, and the second on February 24th. Both were hosted by the Head of the EU Delegation to Montenegro. Johan Sattler, which Spajić and the leaders of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and the Social Democrats (SD) Danijelo Živković i Damir Šehović proposed that the "Venetians" be involved in resolving the crisis caused by the events regarding the Constitutional Court, that is, to examine the decisions that led to the termination of the judicial function Dragani Đuranović in the Constitutional Court.
As reported by "Vijesti", Spajić agreed to Satler's proposal at the first meeting, while DPS was weighing up. At the second meeting, the key contentious issue between the government and the opposition - the issue of signing a political agreement - which needs to be concluded in order to normalize the work of parliament after the opposition MPs' sentences expire, was not resolved.
As "Vijesti" wrote, the meeting became complicated and in the meantime an agreement was almost reached for the Venice Commission to give an opinion on the Đuranović case.
DPS insists that the government initial an agreement with the opposition that would introduce a moratorium on amendments to the Constitution and the Law on Montenegrin Citizenship, because it believes that this is not discussed precisely enough in the government's "Barometer 26" platform, which it is offering for signature.
An interlocutor from PES said that the opposition does not accept ''Barometer 26'' because "they want to marginalize some things."
"Everything they are asking for is already stated in 'Barometer 26', and I don't see what it matters what the document is called...", he said.
DPS previously told "Vijesti" that PES insists on a "general formulation" on identity issues in "Barometer 26" because, they claim, it fears a backlash. Mandić, who advocates changes to the highest legal act in the section on the official language and citizenship regulations in order to introduce dual citizenship with Serbia.
MP of DPS Aleksandra Vuković Kuč, said at a press conference on Wednesday that Spajić, if he wants to see the opposition in parliament, should "decide today to sit down with them at the table and sign an agreement."
"Nothing is being requested that is not achievable and fully compliant with EU integration," she said.
Vuković Kuč stated that she believes that Spajić has the will to resolve the political crisis, and that their condition is to send a request for a statement to the "Venetians".
"Even if we receive an opinion that is not in line with our expectations, we will accept it," she said.
The DPS MP stated that they are working to return to parliament, because they are "the European opposition, and there is no European Montenegro without the European opposition."
President and MP of the opposition Civic Movement URA Dritan Abazovic, said yesterday that the opposition boycott will not last.
"Foreigners don't want a crisis in Montenegro, because of the region, so they want the focus to be removed from Montenegro. There will be a boycott, an end to the boycott, there will be a circus," he said at a working breakfast with journalists.
The opposition claims that the Constitution was violated because the parliament, without the mandatory notification of the Constitutional Court, decided in mid-December last year to terminate Đuranović's judicial position in that court, due to him meeting the conditions for retirement.
They demanded that things be returned "to the previous state," saying that otherwise they would not allow the highest legislative chamber to function.
The opposition has been disrupting parliamentary sessions since the end of the year, which is why this year's budget was adopted in early February, after most opposition MPs were suspended.
Knežević: German ambassador "assembles and disassembles the majority"
The leader and MP of the ruling Democratic People's Party (DNP), Milan Knežević, said yesterday in the Parliament that the German Ambassador to Montenegro, Peter Felten, is "convincing a part of the MPs of the ruling majority to go with the reformed DPS."
He asked on what basis Felten "assembles and dismantles the parliamentary majority and destroys the strongest party from the majority in terms of the number of deputies, when the government has not yet been formed in Germany."
"Imagine if our ambassador in Germany were to call the election winners and say that the government should be formed in one way or another. If that happened, our ambassador would immediately be taken to the first psychiatric hospital, and then locked up in some insane asylum and would never see the light of day again. However, when Herr Felten does this, these are the greatest achievements of democracy and European standards and have been applied exclusively in Montenegro and to a certain extent in other Balkan countries," said Knežević.
He added that the ambassador certainly would not call him "although they could talk", and that he, as the deputy chairman of the Inquiry Committee, would invite him to "see with whom he wants to send certain MPs into an embrace with the DPS".
"Let him see those who killed Pavle Bulatović, Duško Jovanović, Slavoljub Šćekić, Beli Raspopović, Goran Žugić, Mađo Klikovac, those who formed the 'Kavački' and 'Škaljarski' clans. And then let's ask him what it would be like if this government in Germany was composed of people who participated in political executions. And let's see if the same applies to Montenegro as to Germany," he said.
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