A high-ranking official of the local committee of the Democratic Party of Socialists Nikola Divanović lost the case before the Administrative Court, which rejected his claim that he was illegally removed from the position of president of the Municipality of Budva, as well as that Marko Carevic illegally elected as the first man of Budva.
"The lawsuit is dismissed as illegal," says the decision of the Administrative Court, which "Vijesti" had access to.
On June 27, 2020, at a session closed to the public under private security, which, with the use of physical force, did not allow anyone to enter the hall of the Municipal Assembly, Divanović was elected President of the Municipality of Budva by the majority of the Assembly, which was given the majority by a fugitive member of the Movement for Change Stevan Džaković.
His appointment was never accepted by the Democratic Front, the Democrats and the SNP, who claimed that it was political corruption, and filed criminal charges with the Special Prosecutor's Office, which he headed at the time Milivoje Katnic, who rejected everything.
After that, there were protests in front of the Municipal Assembly building for three full months, marked by the use of police force.
However, after the overwhelming victory of the DF and the Democrats, at the first Municipal Assembly, held on September 24, 2020, Divanović was dismissed, and Marko Carević was appointed.
Divanović filed a lawsuit against the Budva Municipality Assembly to the Administrative Court, claiming that he was illegally dismissed, stating that he was elected for a four-year term by the decision of the local parliament on June 27, 2020, and that the Assembly on September 24, 2020, immediately after its constitution, made a decision by which it annulled the decision on his election contrary to the competences stipulated in Article 38 of the Law on Local Self-Government.
"Divanović pointed out that by making such a decision, the procedure prescribed by Article 62 paragraph 2 of the Law on Local Self-Government and Articles 104 and 105 of the Statute of the Municipality of Budva was violated. He proposed that the court approve the lawsuit and annul the Decision on the annulment of the Decision of the Budva Municipal Assembly dated June 27.6.2020, 24.9.2020. and the Decision on the election of the President of the Municipality of Budva dated 26. In a submission dated November 2020, 24.9.2020, the plaintiff specified the claim in such a way that he gave up the part of the claim in which he requested the annulment of the Decision on his dismissal, requesting that the court decide on the claim for the annulment of the Decision of September XNUMX, XNUMX. years. The prosecutor's final proposal was absent, because the hearing was held in his absence," the verdict reads.
The Municipal Assembly was represented by the Secretariat for Property Protection, which disputed the merits of Divanović's lawsuit, requesting that it be rejected, which the Administrative Court accepted.
The newly constituted Municipal Assembly, in which the majority of 20 councilors were held by the "For the Future of Budva" coalition, led by Tsarević and the Democrats, made a decision at the beginning of November 2020 to annul the acts passed by the Divanović administration in the period from June 8 to June 24. of September 2020 and the taking of appropriate actions by local self-government bodies. Among the annulled acts is the act, as stated at the time, on the annulment of the Decision on the election of the previously illegitimate and illegal president of the Municipality of Budva dated June 27, 2020.
In July 2021, the Appeals Commission of the Government of Montenegro rejected the appeals of former municipal officials from the administration of Nikola Divanović, DPS personnel, and confirmed the decisions of Mayor Marko Carević, who dismissed them from their duties.
In February of last year, Tsarević dismissed all eight of Divanović's officials from their duties in a new procedure, who had previously filed a complaint, which was accepted by the Government Commission on the eve of the New Year and sent back to the head of the municipality for a decision.
After Carević made the same decisions in the retrial, that is, made decisions about the dismissal, Divanović's staff filed a complaint again, considering that the President of the Municipality did not act according to the decision of the Appeals Commission.
"The appeals commission considered the entire case file, examined the appeal decision, evaluated the allegations of the appeal and found that the appeal should be rejected", it was stated in the decision of the appeals commission of the Government of Montenegro.
In the retrial, the first man of the city assessed that Divanović appointed officials in violation of the law, that some of the staff did not even pass professional exams, and some did not even have the education for the positions they were given.
No new criminal charges due to the violent change of government
Although the decision of the Municipal Assembly obliged them to do so, the administration of Marko Carevic did not file new criminal charges against all the actors of the violent change of power in 2020.
Carevic announced criminal charges when there are changes in the Special Prosecutor's Office, i.e. when Milivoje Katnić leaves as head. From the assembly floor, responding to the calls of councilors from his coalition that none of those who participated in the beating of citizens, the local coup d'état and political corruption, and then the invasion of the municipality, had responded, he announced that criminal charges would be filed against all of them. applications.
"Heroes of spring" and "Heroes of SKY applications"
The term "heroes" for the actors of political events in Budva in a period of two years was used by the leaders of the DPS, when they wanted to "bring closer" to the citizens of Budva and Montenegro the political opportunities in the metropolis of tourism.
Thus, in the summer of 2020, the then Prime Minister Duško Marković personally arrived in Budva to support Divanović and his staff, calling them "heroes of spring" for all that they have done.
That qualification, but in a pejorative sense, was used by political opponents.
The term "heroes" was also used by the state president and DPS leader Milo Đukanović when, on the eve of the local elections, at the convention of the coalition gathered around his party from Bečići, he said that citizens should choose between the representatives of the DPS list and coalition partners and the "heroes of SKY applications". alluding to members and supporters of the Democratic Front.
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