Spajić answers questions from deputies

Social Democrat MP Boris Mugoša will ask Spajić how he comments on the fact that last year's growth in the Montenegrin economy was the lowest in the last eight years, excluding the corona year - 2020.

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Spajić, Photo: Boris Pejović
Spajić, Photo: Boris Pejović
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Prime Minister Milojko Spajić will answer questions from representatives of parliamentary groups today at a special session of the Parliament of Montenegro.

Democratic People's Party MP Milan Knežević will ask Spajić whether, in his opinion and that of the government, war crimes were committed against Montenegrins and Serbs in the Croatian Lora camp.

MP Radinka Ćinćur from the Special Club of MPs will ask Spajić whether he plans to put the Airports of Montenegro under concession for 30 years, or whether the Government has an alternative plan.

Democratic MP Boris Bogdanović will ask the Prime Minister whether he is willing to provide full institutional and intelligence support to the Inquiry Committee investigating cigarette smuggling.

"...In order to, for the first time in modern Montenegrin history, unequivocally determine who were the order-givers and executors of that decades-long state project that, more than any crisis or sanction, humiliated and impoverished Montenegro," Bogdanović's question states.

He will also ask Spajić if he is ready to be the first Prime Minister to "admit that Montenegro has been led for years, not from institutions, but from warehouses."

"That the security of this country was less in the hands of agents and police officers, and more in the hands of distributors? That the strongest chains were the smuggling ones, not the legal ones," the question from the head of the Democratic parliamentary group reads.

MP from the Europe Now Movement Uglješa Urošević stated that there has been more information recently about the arrival of a new investor in Montenegro, Mohamed Alabar, and, as expected, even more misinformation about the investor himself, the method of implementation, and even the project itself.

He will ask Spajić what kind of investment it is, what he is doing to attract investment, and how he generally assesses the effects of economic policy on the current situation in the country.

Social Democrat MP Boris Mugoša will ask Spajić how he comments on the fact that last year's growth in the Montenegrin economy was the lowest in the last eight years, excluding the corona year - 2020.

Mugoša is also interested in whether the Montenegrin economy's growth rates of around three percent per year guarantee the long-term sustainability and stability of the economic, or financial, system and the improvement of citizens' standards.

Democratic Party of Socialists MP Nikola Milović will ask the Prime Minister whether the data on economic activity at the end of last year and the first two months of this year can be understood as a public admission by the Government that "the populist-consumer economic model has suffered a collapse."

New Serbian Democracy MP Marko Kovačević is interested in whether the Government is ready, at the initiative of the Municipality of Nikšić and the Electric Power Company, to become more involved in the implementation of the project to build a thousand new apartments in Nikšić called "Sunny City".

The representative of the Bosniak Party's parliamentary group, Mirsad Nurković, stated that the Government is hastily preparing for the implementation of a number of large infrastructure projects and that they cannot be financed without new borrowing.

"What impact will these new debts have on the state's total public debt, taking into account that these new debts would also mean new large investments, which should also generate new revenues and be a generator of economic development in the medium term," Nurković asked.

Socialist People's Party MP Slađana Kaluđerović will ask Spajić what amount of debts incurred during the Democratic Party of Socialists' rule have been repaid by the 2020th Government, as well as the previous two governments, by 44.

"And how much of their debt do we still have to repay and when are they due? In that context, I am interested in how you plan to service the due debt and what is the public debt management policy," Kaluđerović said.

Mehmet Zenka from the Democratic Union of Albanians and Croatian Civic Initiative MPs' Club will ask Spajić what his plans are regarding the mega investment by the Arab company Allmar, which includes the Great Beach in Ulcinj.

The head of the Albanian Forum parliamentary group, Artan Čobi, is interested in what Spajić and the Government's current position is when it comes to decentralization.

He said that Spajić had stated several times before that municipalities should be given back some of the powers that had been taken away from them.

"Do you support returning jurisdiction over the coast and the development of strategic planning documents that are necessary for further development and attracting investment," asked Čobi.

The MP of the Albanian Alliance coalition, Ilir Čapuni, requested to be provided with a table showing the amount of value added tax collected in each municipality in Montenegro in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, last year and this year, as well as the amounts of collected maritime domain leases in each coastal municipality.

MPs who have been ordered to stay away will not be able to ask parliamentary questions during Prime Minister's Hour.

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