While some representatives of the ruling majority in Pljevlja say that there are no conflicts in it, the opposition Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) claim that the Europe Now Movement (PES) is seeking a redefinition of the coalition agreement in that municipality.
Head of the PES parliamentary group in the Pljevlja Municipal Assembly (MA) Radoman Andesilić did not respond to calls and messages from "Vijesti" yesterday, and the party's headquarters did not respond to whether it is true that they are requesting a redefinition of the coalition arrangement, and if so, what the reasons are for that.
Two days ago, the DPS announced that the Pljevlja Municipal Assembly session was interrupted due to a conflict within the current majority, which was caused by an initiative to remove the Mayor of the Municipality. Daria Vraneš (New Serbian Democracy), which DPS submitted last Friday.
"The very beginning of today's session was marked by a request from the ruling PES councilors' club for a 15-minute break, which ultimately lasted two hours and 15 minutes, and which the governing councilors used to talk about the initiative to dismiss Vranes. The session ended after a long break, even before it began, due to obvious disagreements within the ruling majority," the DPS announced.
A meeting of the heads of the majority councilors' clubs, which will, among other things, discuss the continuation of the Municipal Assembly session, should be held by the end of the week.
Councilor of the ruling New Serbian Democracy (NSD) Bozidar Jelovac He told "Vijesti" that at the joint meeting of the club there was no discussion of the initiative to remove Vraneš, but that the problem was "two or three points" concerning local issues, with which some of the councilors were not sufficiently familiar.
"They asked the Secretariat to clarify this further. That is the reason for postponing the session. We had no other disagreements, no one mentioned anything else, and an agreement was reached to postpone the session for a few days," claims Jelovac.
He pointed out that the DPS initiative is "so frivolous that they don't want to comment on it."
The municipal boards of the DPS and the Bosniak Party in Pljevlja previously announced that they were launching an initiative to remove Vraneš, explaining that there were numerous reasons for such a political move and that they expected that some of the councilors from the ruling majority would support the initiative.
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Some of the reasons for the initiative, as they explained at the time, were that instead of working on improving the quality of life of all citizens and implementing the municipality's strategic plan, Vraneš focused on topics that deepen divisions and introduce political and social instability among citizens. They complained about the condition of the city's streets, the number of failed tenders, the poor implementation of the capital budget for the first half of the year...
The government in Pljevlja is made up of the New Serbian Democracy, the Democratic People's Party, Democratic Montenegro, PES, the Movement for Pljevlja, and United Montenegro.
The local parliament in Pljevlja has 34 councilors, and 18 are needed for valid decision-making. To include an initiative on the agenda, 12 signatures of councilors are needed, and DPS and BS have nine representatives in the local parliament.
President of the Democratic Councilors' Club Goddess Flower She told "Vijesti" that there is no conflict on the issue of initiative regarding Vranes.
"We are not playing the DPS game. You know for yourself that no one from the ruling majority signed their initiative. It simply took time to reach an agreement, and that is why the session was adjourned for consultations regarding the agenda," Cvijetić stated.
Head of the opposition DPS councilors' club Marko Tošić He told "Vijesti" that the session had been adjourned without specifying the date when it would resume.
"According to some information we have, the Europe Movement is now seeking a redefinition of the coalition agreement. It has been verified that these relations among the parliamentary majority have not been good for at least the last six months, which can be confirmed by every previous Assembly when a key decision was made, such as the budget or the report on the president's work - out of 24 councilors of the majority, one or two councilors defended his work and spoke on these topics," said Tošić.
He did not want to comment on whether their initiative would be included in the Assembly's agenda.
"Vijesti" wrote at the end of June that the announced dismissal of two members of the Board of Directors of the municipal water company Vodovod, initiated by representatives of the Democrats and PES, caused disagreements among the coalition partners in Pljevlja.
Democrats and PES demanded the removal of two members of the board of directors of Vodovod Radovan Andjelic (Democrats) and Dejan Cavic (PES), which caused disagreements among coalition partners and dissatisfaction among employees.
Vranes then announced that he had been deceived before signing the proposal to appoint two new members of the Board of Directors of Vodovod.
"I signed the proposal because I was misled by the PES coordinator in Pljevlja" Sasa Bjeković who explained to me that both members of the Board of Directors of Vodovod, both Anđelić and Čavić, had resigned, even explaining their reasons by moving to another city, etc. Considering that responsible people are in responsible positions and that it is unnecessary for me to check the allegations about the resignations of Čavić and Anđelić, and primarily with the aim of making Vodovod function as efficiently as possible, I signed a request to the Municipal Assembly for the election of new members," Vraneš said at the time.
Bjeković then denied Vraneš's allegations that he had deceived him, as well as that he had ever mentioned the resignations of any member of the Board of Directors of Vodovod.
"Communication between us was conducted exclusively via Viber, so every claim is easily verifiable. Of all the 'facts' presented in his statement, only my name and surname are correct, as well as the fact that the Mayor submitted a proposal to the Assembly for the appointment of two new members of the board of directors of the aforementioned company," Bjeković stated.
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