Zirojević: Spajić should dismiss Šaranović because he lied to us and reconsider the continued existence of anti-European structures in the government

European Union representative Nikola Zirojević called on Prime Minister Milojko Spajić to dismiss Interior Minister Danilo Šaranović after the European Commission said that the amendments to the Law on Internal Affairs were not in line with the EU acquis.

"The European Commission's opinion on the Law on Internal Affairs is exactly in line with what we warned - the aforementioned law is not aligned with the EU acquis. Bearing in mind that the Minister of Internal Affairs, supported by MPs from the anti-European Democratic Party, lied to us outright that this law is aligned with the EU acquis, while also telling an additional lie that the adoption of such a bizarre, undemocratic and anti-European law is a condition for closing Chapter 24, which the EC opinion also denies, we expect Prime Minister Spajić to dismiss the Minister of Internal Affairs Danilo Šaranović due to his open activities against Montenegro's European path," Zirojević stated in a press release.

He also asked Spajić to reconsider the continued presence of "anti-European structures like the Democrats" in the government.

"Considering that this party is continuously trying to divert Montenegro from its European path, proposing such an anti-European law is just one in a series of such attempts, which was also discussed yesterday by the Member of the European Parliament, Tomislav Sokol, at a meeting of the EP Delegation for Montenegro. If he sincerely advocates for the European integration of Montenegro and wants our country to be the first next member of the EU, it is logical for Prime Minister Spajić to reconsider cooperation at the state level with the most un-European political entity in the Montenegrin Parliament," Zirojević stated.

The European Union representative also called on the Government of Montenegro to withdraw "this bizarre, anti-European law" from the parliamentary procedure.

"And the MPs and officials of the Prime Minister's Europe Movement should now listen to the only currently sober person among them, the chairman of the Security and Defense Committee, colleague Miodrag Laković," Zirojević concluded.