The coalition's armchair, or parliamentary majority, homogenized through mutual blackmail and bargaining, has decided, once again violating the Rules of Procedure, to deprive opposition MPs who have been suspended from their posts of the right to ask parliamentary questions at the session scheduled for Wednesday, announced Boris Mugoša, the president of the Social Democrats (SD) parliamentary group in the Parliament of Montenegro.
"For the umpteenth time, it is being shown that there is no difference between the constituents of the coalition seats, and this is a clear message ahead of the upcoming local elections. Of course, they are doing this to avoid a discussion between the opposition and ministers, which would show how much the government is not working or is working poorly. On the other hand, by preventing the opposition from asking questions to ministers, the government's deputies will use their questions to ministers ahead of the upcoming local elections to send populist messages to citizens, once again cowardly settling scores with the opposition that is not in the chamber. Just as the Resolution on Jasenovac was conceived immediately after receiving the IBAR, after the closure of three chapters, all those events at the Constitutional Committee, now after the agreement between the opposition and the Prime Minister and the President of PES, all this is being done. This only confirms for the umpteenth time the fact that this majority cannot bring Montenegro into the EU (European Union). All this shows that they are aware that the wave of progressive changes has begun and that it is unstoppable," Mugoša wrote on the social network Iks.
The head of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) parliamentary group in the Parliament of Montenegro, Andrija Nikolić, announced last night that the cowardly and undemocratic parliamentary majority had decided to deny the right to ask parliamentary questions to MPs who were suspended.
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The Prime Minister's Hour, where Prime Minister Milojko Spajić, who is also the leader of the Europe Now Movement (PES), will answer questions from MPs, will be held on March 26, two days earlier than originally announced.
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According to information from "Vijesti", the prime minister's appointment was postponed due to international commitments of Prime Minister Milojko Spajić.
The prime time was announced for March 28th.
Nikolić said on March 17 that the DPS parliamentary group was returning to regular work in the Parliament, because the demands made by the opposition to make the parliament functional again, as "the only true place for democracy and political debate", had been met.
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On February 3, the Speaker of the Parliament, Andrija Mandić, imposed a 15-day suspension on opposition MPs.
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Opposition MPs were then prohibited from attending sessions for 15 days, except when voting.
Of the opposition MPs, the measure was not issued to Boris Mugoša from the Social Democrats (SD), Drita Lola, Nikola Janović, Nikola Milović and Nikola Rakočević from the DPS, nor to independent MPs Jevrosima Pejović and Radinka Ćinćur.
Zirojević: The parliamentary majority cowardly does not allow opposition MPs to ask questions to ministers ahead of the elections in Nikšić
SD MP and representative of the European Union, Nikola Zirojević, announced today that the parliamentary majority is cowardly not allowing opposition MPs to ask questions to ministers ahead of the elections in Nikšić.
"We have had the opportunity to see for ourselves several times that the representatives of the parliamentary majority are ready for anything. However, this time, unexpectedly, they have completely exposed their own cowardice. In anticipation of the Prime Minister's Hour and parliamentary questions, about the holding of which and the deadlines for setting them, some genius (and the birds say that it is the head of the parliamentary club of a party known for its insatiable consumption of pope and official fuel) came up with the idea, contrary to the provisions of the Rules of Procedure, not to allow opposition MPs to ask questions, in anticipation of the local elections in Nikšić, which they are certain to lose," Zirojević pointed out in a statement.
He added that he asked the Minister of Interior, Danil Šaranović, to clarify on what parameters he bases his statement that "the security system enjoys the highest level of credibility ever."
"And then it is quite clear why megadens distance learning students, before the COVID era, are working to shamefully ensure that this question is not asked, trying to preserve what little rating they have left in Nikšić, if they even have any left," Zirojević said.
He said that the second question was addressed to the coordinator of the Ministry of Energy, Admir Šahmanović, who he asked what happened to the promises about the production of drones and anodized hardware at the Nikšić Steel Plant.
"A question that would completely expose the lies of the current majority, starting with the former minister, the current Mayor of Podgorica Saša Mujović, and ending with the outgoing President of the Municipality of Nikšić Marko Kovačević. Despite numerous promises, there is nothing from the Steel Plant, and the only change they made was the demolition of the lime kiln, which was one of the symbols of Nikšić and this factory. In this way, despite the beating of the hero's chest, they finished off the failing, once most famous Nikšić factory," said Zirojević.
In his words, it remains unheard of for a parliamentary majority in a declaratively democratic state to have used every means and means to prevent the opposition from speaking.
"They were determined to get us back into Parliament, trumpeting the state interest and European integration, only to have the same people support the proposal today to take away our ability to ask questions. But let them not worry - our questions will be heard, if not in the plenary hall, at all other locations, and their shame that they prevented us from asking, out of fear of a bunch of classic political knockouts that await them, will resonate just as loudly throughout Montenegro as our presentations would have, if we had had the opportunity to ask questions," Zirojević stated.
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