The budget of the city of Budva for the coming year was adopted by secret ballot, so the public was deprived of information about the councilors who decided to achieve a majority in parliament.
Of the 20 present, because part of the opposition from the ranks of the DNP, Democrats and the Movement for the City left the session, while the remaining councilors were from the PZP and PES, 18 voted for the budget, and two councilors abstained.
On the eve of the budget vote with the controversial item to approve a million-dollar donation to the Serbian Orthodox Church, which is why the Mayor Nikola Jovanović requested a secret ballot, the President of the Municipal Assembly, Petar Odžić, said that the European Union, namely he and councilor Jovo Perović, would abstain.
Jovanović's Budva naš grad (nine councilors) was clearly in favor of the budget, and DPS councilor Nikola Milović said that their seven councilors would also be in favor.
The decisive vote was missed by the GP URA councilor who was absent. After a long break and absence from the local parliament, PZP councilor Nikola Vučićević appeared. He told Vijesti that he had abstained. The European Union told Vijesti that they had also abstained.
Therefore, it remains unknown who actually abstained, because PES councilor Dejan Rabrenović said that he also abstained.
If everyone who told Vijesti had abstained, the budget would not have been adopted because the result would have been 16 voters in favor and 4 abstaining.
This is once again the behind-the-scenes political combinations that are characteristic of Budva when it comes to tricky decisions.
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