The opposition in Šavnik announced that they will block the Šavnik-Žabljak road for two and a half hours starting Sunday.

The opposition in Šavnik, in protest of the re-election of Jugoslav Jakić (DPS) as mayor, will block the Šavnik-Žabljak road for two and a half hours from Sunday, March 16, instead of the previous two hours. Thus, the blockade of the aforementioned road route will be from 12:14.30 to XNUMX:XNUMX on Sunday.

The blockade is organized by the coalitions "For the Future of Šavnik" (NSD, SNP, DNP) and "Let's Go People" (DCG, UCG, PES). They began blocking the aforementioned main road on February 27th.

Today, Velimir Đoković from New Serbian Democracy was with them at the blockade, as a sign of support.

Parliament Speaker Andrija Mandić appealed to the authorities to introduce compulsory administration in Šavnik or to enable voting to be held at two polling stations.

He said, at the session of the first regular spring session of Parliament, which is not attended by the opposition, that the citizens of Šavnik have been protesting for 20 days because the government in that municipality is not functioning in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the country. The opposition demands that representatives of the legislative and executive authorities in the country react and resolve the Šavnik crisis, which has been going on since October 2022 and the local elections, which have not been completed to this day. As they said, they will continue with the blockade until the Šavnik issue is resolved.

Support for the citizens of Šavnik was previously provided by the president of the Socialist People's Party (SNP), Vladimir Joković, who said that the fact that in Šavnik one mandate is worth about 40 votes, and that there are 380 more voters on their electoral roll than the municipality has residents, speaks volumes about the extent of electoral engineering, and that the "DPS manipulations" continued with Jakić's re-election.

By the votes of councilors from the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and the Social Democrats (SD), who attended the zoom meeting, Jakić was elected as the new/old president of the Municipality of Šavnik on February 19.

The fact that he was elected by councilors whose mandates ended almost three years ago is not a problem for Jakić because, as he told reporters after the election, according to the law, councilors' mandates last until new ones are elected.