Leković: The resignation of the President of the Inquiry Committee Andrija Nikolić is an attempt to prevent the hearing of Milo Đukanović

The announcement of the resignation of the Chairman of the Inquiry Committee, DPS MP Andrija Nikolić, just before the hearing of former President and Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, can hardly be understood as a coincidence. On the contrary, it increasingly looks like a carefully planned attempt to prevent the hearing scheduled for Friday through a procedural maneuver.

This was assessed by Momčilo Leković, a member of parliament from the Democrats, in a press release.

Djukanovic is not legally required to respond to a summons to a hearing before the Administrative Committee.

"According to the procedure, if the chairman of the committee resigns immediately before the session, the new chairman could not be elected by the scheduled date, which would automatically mean the postponement of the hearing of Đukanović, which is scheduled for Friday. Especially considering the fact that these days, DPS deputies have announced their withdrawal from leading positions in parliamentary committees. Is this exactly the way to, through procedural maneuvers, avoid the hearing that the Montenegrin public is impatiently awaiting?", asked Leković.

He added that citizens have the right to know whether the essential goal of these moves is to block the work of parliament or to block the truth, or in this case, both, as the Democratic MP claims.

"If someone is trying to prevent the hearing from taking place, then they must be prepared to explain to the public why? That is why today we need to ask another very simple question: what are Milo Đukanović and Andrija Nikolić afraid of? If there is no reason to fear, then there is no reason to run away from the hearing. And any attempt to postpone or avoid it will be a clear signal to citizens that someone is trying to run away from the questions that the public has been waiting for answers to for years," Leković concluded.