The former ambassador of Germany in Montenegro, Gudrun Steinaker, will not become an honorary citizen of Ulcinj for the Municipal Day this year, even though she was informally nominated for that title last year. On the agenda of the formal session of SO Ulcinj, on Saturday, April XNUMX, there will not be a proposal for an honorary citizen named after the great diplomat, who raised the problem of preservation and protection of the salt pan to a high international level. This was partially confirmed to the News by the current president of the Municipality, Nazif Cungu.
"We don't have anything about that for now," he said.
Last year, Štajnaker proposed Skender Elezagić (SDP) as an honorary citizen of Ulcinj, and at the collegium with the president of the parliament, all clubs accepted the proposal unanimously. It turned out later, as it was officially explained, that there is no rulebook or commission that would determine a possible list of candidates.
"As far as I know, that commission has not been formed yet. We at Forca are happy to accept that SDP proposal," said Cungu, who at the time proposed the president of Albania, Bujar Nišani, as an honorary citizen of Ulcinj, who also did not pass.
A year earlier, without regulations or a commission, the prime minister of Albania and the president of Kosovo, Edi Rama and Hashim Thaci, were declared honorary citizens of Ulcinj.
However, Elezagić claims that Štajnaker threatened the interests of individuals or groups with her work, and that because of this and not because of formal reasons, her candidacy for honorary citizen was withdrawn from the agenda.
"I claim that due to the pressure from the side, the parliamentary majority did not have the courage to process the proposal that it had unanimously accepted before, to the end. Someone stronger from the side said that Steinaker could not reach that position. Not everyone liked what he was doing with the saltworks." , Elezagić told Vijesta.
The interlocutor of Vijesti from DPS said that the nominations of Štajnaker and Nišanija were withdrawn for procedural reasons. He did not know how to explain why even a year later procedural assumptions were not created.
"I don't know, but I suspect that there was pressure from the outside. We were all in favor of those proposals," he said.
The head of URA Omer Bajraktari said that the attitude of the ruling majority at the time towards the appointment of Steinaker in the SO was a farce.
"It's when you publicly declare that you will support the initiative and behind the scenes you do everything to make that initiative fail and fall into oblivion," Bajraktari told Vijesta. He assessed that the attitude towards that nomination showed who in the Ulcinj parliament cared about the saltworks and who did not.
"They are trying to convince the public that only their speculative model of the development of the salt pan is correct, even though Europe now knows that the factory in this form has no future," said Bajraktari.
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