Behind the closed doors of the Multimedia Hall of the University Sports and Cultural Center in Podgorica, the Gordian knot, which is "tied" by the conflict between the two currents in the Basketball Association of Montenegro, could be broken today.
At 13:XNUMX p.m., the KSCG Assembly will begin, which was scheduled after many ups and downs and media confrontations through the announcement of the President of the Board of Directors. Nikola Peković and the Association Assembly Radoslav-Muse Jovanović. Peković will propose the composition of the new Board of Directors, because the old one, which he inherited when he became the first man of the Alliance, instead of Veselin Barović mandate expired.
There was also a lot of friction over whether Pekovic, who was elected president at the Assembly in May 2021 on Barovic's proposal, still has a mandate, which was confirmed by an inspection by the Ministry of Sports and Youth.
The previous session of the supreme body of the KSCG was on June 16, when the president of the Supervisory Board was to be elected between Peković and Igor Lukšić, but the agenda was not voted, because 35 delegates voted against adoption, 34 for, and eight abstained. At that time, it was best seen that the two currents have almost equal support, so it is difficult to predict whether the proposal of the once best center in Europe for new members of the Supervisory Board will be accepted.
It is possible that the Assembly will not be held due to the lack of a quorum, as it is necessary for the session to have 42 delegates, seven more than in June supported the proposal of the 37-year-old Białopolska to vote against the agenda. If that happens, the status quo would continue and the question is when and how the season would start, because everything has stopped until the elections are over, and it is interesting that only one club applied for the Women's First League.
The conflict in the Basketball Association culminated at the end of February this year, just one day after our national team secured a place at the Mundobasket with a victory over the Czech Republic, where it won a phenomenal 11th place last month.
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On February 27, one of the longest-serving officials in the Association submitted his resignation to the Board of Directors, Danilo Mitrovic, as well as a lawyer Zoran Piperović.
"I regret that I made that decision. I was on the Board of Directors of the Basketball Association for the first time in 1990, and that says something. I would not like to comment on the reasons for the decision, they know why I did it," Piperović told "Vijesti" at the time.
Is the reason - or one of the reasons, that Nikola Pekovic cheered on the basketball players the night before in the company of the prime minister Dritan Abazović, one can only guess. Piperović, by the way, represents the owners of the company "Bemax" in the lawsuit against Abazović, and if it is known that several basketball clubs in Montenegro - both men's and women's - operate under the patronage of "Bemax", which is the general sponsor, then it could be hint at the background, or one of the backgrounds, of the division at the top of KSCG.
This summer, Piperović also wrote to the Minister of Sports and Youth in Abazović's government, Vasilij Lalošević, in which, among other things, he asked him "how is it possible that the term of office of Veselin Barović, and not Nikola Peković, the president of the KSCG, has expired when both are elected for a period of four years".
If the Board of Directors is elected today, Pekovic could quickly solve the accumulated problems and appoint people he trusts. As "Vijesti" found out, several names are already in circulation.
If, however, the Supervisory Board is not elected, the "stream" led by Barović and Mitrović, to which Piperović also belongs, and which offers its candidate - the former president of the Association Igor Lukšić, could very soon see the session where the vote of confidence in Nikola Peković would be taken.
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