DPS Žabljak: We do not want to give legitimacy to municipal council sessions where decisions harmful to the city are made outside the public eye

The Municipal Board of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Žabljak announced that the party's councilors left the session of the Žabljak Municipal Assembly because there were no media present to report to the public on the course of the session, and the government, as they claim, persistently refuses to provide the conditions for broadcasting the sessions via the YouTube service.

The Žabljak DPS said that they do not want to give legitimacy to sessions where decisions harmful to the city and its citizens are made, and where all of this takes place out of the public eye.

"This non-transparent, ill-intentioned and ignorant government has an interest in hiding from the Žabljak public that today's session will, among other things, decide on an increase in prices for urban rehabilitation and the too poor Report on the work of the President of the Municipality of Žabljak. Also, the current government does not want citizens to have insight into the fact that the acting director of the Žabljak Waterworks was appointed without the knowledge of the Municipal Assembly and without all parliamentary procedures. They do not want to talk publicly about the illegal spending of budget funds, about uncontrolled party-family employment in local self-government, about the flourishing of illegal construction," the statement states.

"In conclusion, as serious and responsible people, we do not want to give legitimacy to the show from the parliamentary session, because the opposition's job is to confront the government with the injustices and abuses they commit in front of the citizens, not within the four walls of the hall where the session is being held," the Žabljak DPS concluded.