The President of the Assembly, Ivan Brajović, who announced yesterday that the Temporary Committee for the Reform of Electoral and Other Laws, whose work is boycotted by the opposition, prepared most of the amendments, today is denied by both the opposition and the civil sector. In DPS, they didn't want to talk about this topic.
SDP's Raško Konjević was surprised by the statement of the Speaker of the Parliament, Ivan Brajović, according to which the committee for reforming electoral and other laws had almost finished its work.
"The board is on a parity level, so the board decides by consensus, in exceptional situations by a two-thirds majority, the board had one session, at which we did not finally agree on the work of the subgroups, and the board has not had a single session since the New Year, because the president of the board did not scheduled sessions, therefore the board did not work nor could it have any material on which it could decide," Konjević said.
TV Vijesti received the same interpretation from representatives of the civil sector in the temporary parliamentary committee.
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"It is clear that this statement was made only for political purposes. Therefore, it does not have any great political weight, because of that, in order for the electoral laws to be changed, two-thirds is needed, it is clear that there is currently no opposition in that committee, and until the conditions are met, for two-thirds of the deputies to be in that committee, it will not be possible talk about electoral legislation being sent to the plenum", said Dragan Koprivica from the CDT.
Since the head of the EU delegation in Podgorica, Aivo Orav, advocated yesterday for a sincere and comprehensive reform of the electoral legislation, the Democrats state.
"I believe that after this scandalous statement by Brajović, even the ambassador of the EU, no longer has a dilemma that the DPS is not and will not be committed to changes in the electoral legislation, until it feels a strong reaction from the opposition and the international community," said Nikola Rovčanin from Demokrat.
SDP and CDT agree that DPS should initiate future discussions in the committee
"If someone thinks that the dialogue, by which the parties in power will mutually agree on what they think they need, and that they consider this to be the solution to that dialogue, then that is the best picture of how the parties in power perceive dialogue, not to mention consensus," he says. Konjevic.
"The dialogue should of course be initiated by the government, the opposition should of course behave much more constructively, and that is the only way that in the next period of time, there will be considerable political uncertainty, which would mean maybe tensions, maybe a boycott of the elections," adds Koprivica.
Democrats, who have been boycotting the work of the parliament for almost three years, still claim that it is not possible to hold any talks with the ruling party.
"On this occasion, I call on all 39 deputies to immediately leave the committee for electoral legislation, all working bodies of the Parliament of Montenegro, and the plenary session of the Parliament, in order to draw up an opposition plan for the first fair and honest elections in the history of Montenegro. Any other approach leads to another stolen election, to which part of the opposition can give full legitimacy," Rovčanin added.
DPS did not want to comment on this topic today, nor to clarify the statement of the first man of the parliament and his coalition partner.
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