Vučinić to Bojanić: Thin biography of even thinner staff is a cause for personal frustration

The thin biography of an even thinner staff member – a municipal advisor and former presidential candidate – is a cause for personal frustration, said Maksim Vulinić, a member of the Board of Directors of the state-owned company Montenegrin Electricity Market Operator (COTEE).

He wrote this on the social network X in response to yesterday's statement by Mladen Bojanić, one of the candidates in the competition for COTEE's executive director.

"With a political and work biography that leaves no deep mark, Bojanić is now criticizing others in order to cover up his own failures," Vučinić said.

Bojanić posted yesterday on the social network Iks: "Moral failure, political and material corruption of members of the Board of Directors of the Montenegrin Electricity Market Operator (COTEE), abuse of official position, incompetence, discrediting and abuse of colleagues by the party apparatchik Mersudin - all of this is under review today."

"Yesterday, Maksim, Đorđe and Nermin sold themselves to Mersudin, Admir and Ervin for a handful of euros, and today the integrity of Milojko, Aleksa, Budimir, Milun, Niko, Dragoslav, Maraš, Slaven, Vladimir is already being tested... In addition, women's solidarity and fairness will be put to the test. Let's see - will the ministers be up to the task," Bojanić wrote in a post on the social network Iks.

Mersudin Gredić had been the head of COTEE since October 2023, but in April this year the Labor Inspectorate determined that he had been appointed illegally, without a competition. The Board of Directors dismissed him and appointed him as acting director.

In mid-June, a vacancy was announced for the position of executive director of the state-owned energy company, and in addition to Gredić, the candidates were Jelena Marković, a long-time employee of COTEE, Mladen Bojanić, former Minister of Capital Investments, whose portfolio included control of the state-owned company, and Adis Balota, a university professor, doctor of electrical engineering, and former assistant minister for information technology. During the vacancy, several COTEE employees stated that they had suffered or were suffering from mobbing from Gredić.