Leaders of the parliamentary majority parties will meet with Prime Minister Milojko Spajić on Monday, when he returns from Japan, to try to resolve disagreements over several contentious issues that caused the parliamentary session to be postponed to Tuesday yesterday.
These unofficial findings from Television Vijesti were neither confirmed nor denied by the head of the PES parliamentary group, Vasilije Čarapić, who nevertheless admits that the parliamentary majority does not have a unified position on all topics on the agenda.
"This was a tactical delay of a few days so that we could complete the big job by the end of June."
This is how the head of the government's largest parliamentary group justifies yesterday's request to postpone the Assembly session until Tuesday, explaining what a big deal it is.
"These are almost 20 laws that are important for closing negotiation chapters at the end of the year and one electoral reform package that is expected of us," added Čarapić.
Čarapić calls the unofficial information that the reasons for postponing the session are that some government MPs do not want to vote against the dismissal of Parliament Speaker Andrija Mandić, the conflict between the Democrats and the President of the Security Committee, Miodrag Laković from PES, over police reforms, and the fear that because of all this, the Agreement with the Emirates would receive less support than in the first vote, speculation.
However, he does not deny that the majority MPs have different views on these issues.
"The goal of PES and the parliamentary majority is that after Tuesday we do not open any side topics in terms of how the coalition functions. We just want to reduce tensions, of course, around certain issues related to the agenda items. Both those that are still left and those that need to come. There is no unity of all subjects, a single view. It is important that we reach a single view, the deadline is Tuesday," says Čarapić.
The Democrats said they need time until Tuesday to make a decision on how to vote for the Agreement with the Emirates a second time, while the SNP will not change its position.
"The Democratic Montenegro MPs' Club will adopt a final position and declare itself at the session on June 3rd and consider all the inputs and information we have heard in the previous period," said Dragana Kažanegra - Stanišić, vice president of the Democrats.
"We stick to our position, we will support the agreement and we will vote against the dismissal of Andrija Mandić," said Slađana Kaluđerović, an SNP MP.
The opposition reiterates that this is about buying time for political bargaining, which will appease the restless parliamentary majority.
"It is no coincidence that MP Mandić put his dismissal as the first point, because he wants to see how the majority MPs react to it, and how he will react to the second point, the agreement, depends on that," said Boris Mugoša, an SD MP.
"Harmonization, that's what you get for a settlement, a reconciliation. So we're waiting for Milojko Spajić," added Oskar Huter, a DPS MP.
TV Vijesti has learned unofficially that they are waiting for Spajić's return from Japan so that parliamentary leaders can resolve their differences. Čarapić, however, says that the meeting is not inevitable.
"We have already started to resolve this at the parliamentary level. If someone thinks that Mr. Spajić should be involved in these matters, then okay. But I believe that he is not essential for resolving these issues. It is only essential that we clear everything up by Tuesday," Čarapić points out.
He also says that he is certain that the work awaiting the parliamentary majority will yield results as early as June.
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