Are the participants in the Nikšić elections complying with the measures and adapting to the worrying epidemiological situation? What is the real security situation in Nikšić, since the authorities describe it as "moderate to high risk"? Are the citizens of Nikšić allowed to vote freely or are they still exposed to various pressures? What are the plans of the election participants to revive the city under Trebjes?
The participants in the debate were:
- Marko Kovačević, FOR THE FUTURE OF NIKŠIĆ
- Momo Koprivica, PEACE IS OUR NATION - WE DON'T GIVE NIKŠIĆ
- Tatjana Đurišić-Bečanović, BLACK AND WHITE
- Željko Nikolić, SDP - WITH MY HEART FOR NIKŠIĆ
- Miodrag Daka Davidović, PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT
Representatives of the "European Team for Nikšić" coalition refused to participate in the debate tonight.
Stream of the show
Closing words
21:50 - "Vote for number 6 if you want the Government to last for four years and for the DPS to never return. We are a guarantee of stability and security for the citizens. We must destroy the mafia... We must reborn Nikšić. If you have had enough of running out of money, tricks, shutdowns jobs, fixed vacancies... vote for number 6. It's a safe choice. We don't give Nikšić," said Koprivica, among other things.
21:48 - "The most important thing is that you don't fall for nationalist platitudes... that shouldn't guide you on election day. Vote for those who are the best, which is number 5. It is important to me that you also think about how you will fight for your free vote "Don't let anyone put pressure on you," said Đurišić-Bečanović, among other things, in her closing speech.
21:46 - "We will take special care of the position of women in our city, so that they are not the first to be fired when they want to start a family... We have to confirm the victory in the parliamentary elections... The doors of the municipality will be open to solve the problems of the citizens. Let's go until victory," Kovačević said, among other things.
21:45 - "On Sunday we know that we will win. There is no power center behind us and we need your support, citizens. The election on March 14 is easy... so feel free, be brave for number 3," said Nikolić.
21:43 - "These days, there is an outrageous pursuit of me and the People's Movement by down-to-earth and primitive people... Nikšić has to work, we have to employ the youth so they don't run away, situate pensioners, support the peasants... We have to accelerate the natural increase and eliminate the People's sneezes. Open your mind and heart, vote for experience and knowledge"; Davidović said, among other things.
Plans for the revival of the city under Trebjes?
21:41 - Koprivica said that his coalition "promoted a powerful program with over 60 projects" during the election campaign.
21:40 - We will deal with the problem of unemployment. Unfortunately, the city is dying and that is the epilogue of DPS policy. The housing issue is something that must be addressed. The municipality should be an employer, but not be populated by offices for people who are like furniture... URA has a different concept of employment," said Đurišić-Bečanović.
21:39 - Kovačević promised to modernize the city market.
"We will launch a project of urban gardens... We will enable the development of organic agriculture, fishing and the development of mini-brewery... We will brand Nikšić as a city of water," Kovačević said.
21:38 - Nikolić said that "the health, economic and political crisis is here and we have to stick to difficult promises..."
"You have to be realistic. We will try what is the competence of small and medium-sized enterprises to return them to the system and help them. To try to create an agricultural cluster, to give it to a good host and to reduce unemployment," Nikolić said.
21:37 - Davidović said "that Nikšić must create a new company Elektroprivreda".
"Our workers and peasants pay the most expensive electricity... We need to build a wind farm and all the income goes to the citizens..." said Davidović.
21:35 - Koprivica said that it is time for "Nikšić to become the richest and most beautiful city.
"We created a program and we are focused on solving the problems. We plan to return everything stolen to the citizens of Nikšić... We will investigate all corruption and check who and in what way led the municipality," said Koprivica.
21:33 - Đurišić-Bečanović said that the real problems of citizens are in focus in black and white.
"We promote the green economy and promote those projects that will lead to the detoxification of the city... It is necessary to build a large recycling center next to the Mislov landfill... Citizens literally inhale toxins... How powerful the identity narrative is, it is clear that in the fourth question we have reached to what should be of interest to the citizens of Nikšić... Montenegro is not being defended in Nikšić, but citizens are being defended from bad government," said Đurišić-Bečanović.
21:30 - Kovačević said that "it is necessary for recovery to send DPS to the past".
"We have to remove criminals from Nikšić and bring honest people. We said that we would open at least one factory during our mandate. The campaign is coming to an end and we will achieve the opening of a food industry plant in the Grahovo region at the beginning. In addition to new jobs, we will also have the purchase of agricultural products We were the only ones to secure the first investment...", said Kovačević.
21:27 - Nikolić said that "changes were necessary, but not bad replacements".
"We will focus the responsibilities of local self-government on small and medium-sized enterprises. We will do everything to exempt them from levies in order to employ as many young people as possible. Cancer is also a solid waste dump... We will do everything related to animal husbandry and agriculture that is in the domain of local of self-government... We will subsidize cattle breeders and enable them to have the municipality open a veterinary clinic that will work 24 hours...", said Nikolić.
21:25 - "I know that I create jobs, none of you have created a single job, and you promise thousands... I've been doing this all my life, I know how to secure large investments... There is no way out of the problems in Nikšić if the existing ones are not started and they establish new big ones... The small economy is fed by large companies," said Davidović, among other things.
Are the citizens of Nikšić allowed to vote freely?
21:22 - Koprivica said that "there is an external influence on Nikšić when Jevto Eraković is entered in the voter's list from Podgorica to Nikšić".
"We are against this external influence and denigration of the citizens of Nikšić," said Koprivica.
21:20 - "The state of Montenegro will not exist nor is it threatened by anything now. I don't hate anyone, I don't know where it came from...", Đurišić-Bečanović said, among other things, in response to Nikolic.
21:17 - Kovačević replied to Davidović "that no one from the Coalition for the Future of Nikšić was indebted to anyone".
"You have not given anything to anyone that has not been returned to you. We see that you dispute everything and get along well with Mr. Nikolić," Kovačević said.
He told Davidović "that he must not say who Brano Mićunović is".
21:14 - If it weren't for the values we fought for together, there wouldn't be this Government. An agreement was formed for which we fought together. I understand your anger, Mrs. Bečanović, maybe you needed the dean of the faculty in Nikšić and I lost my job in 2015. But that doesn't give me, you, or me the right to hate what we created," said Nikolić.
21:10 - "Mr. Kovačević, for 20 years I did for you what Vučić is doing now. You can't even measure how much money you borrowed from me. Now Vučić came to my place and I went from being the best to scum and the biggest rag according to their stories and the rest what they are doing. For a whole body to start on one movement... what is being done and where is it going. To annul the elections is the only legitimate thing," said Davidović.
21:08 - Koprivica said that their mentors are citizens of Nikšić.
"We have to preserve the support of the international community. This government has that support and we need to strengthen it so that Valda lasts for four full years. Our goal is to create an environment in which the rules will be the same for everyone... So that Nikšić will never be vulnerable again and that it belongs to the citizens," said Koprivica.
21:06 - The confusion of discourse and reality is interesting to me. In Nikšić, there are local elections in our story, they crossed those borders. We are making a battle for Stalingrad. This is where the collapse of this regime ends. It is a severe cultural shock, but citizens should not panic... URA is committed to Montenegrin statehood, we have a firm rank, and that is membership in NATO... It is important to stop vote buying and report it and say no to it. "Vote buying is the epitome of DPS... The DPS is threatening the Roma that they will evict them from the land they live on, and I am telling them that they can vote completely freely and that this cannot happen to any citizen of Nikšić," said Đurišić-Bečanović. .
21:02 - Foreign influence is more than evidence, because what is said from an embassy is often more important than what the Prime Minister or the President of the Assembly says. I'm not saying that we shouldn't listen to some suggestion, but it shouldn't be the most important thing to make up for the lack of pride in front of those embassies with our attitude towards Serbia. Mr. Davidović mentioned tow trucks, it seems to me that tow trucks are often on his mind, so I wouldn't blame him for the statement he made..." said Kovačević.
20:58 -" Local topics are not dominant. It is evident that a foreign country is interfering in the elections in Nikšić, if you have a press conference of people coming from Kosovo... so everyone can see it, but no one will say that Serbia's interference in the election process is evident in Nikšić. I am asking Davidović whether, instead of returning Marović, our security coordinator will take Davidović with him and whether Kovačević, who met you at the Podgorica airport when you came with the holy hand, will be injured. And today you are on two sides, I am not sure that the lack love..." said Nikolić
20:54 - This works and fixes everything on all fronts. If there was a state, these elections would be annulled or even interrupted, because you can see how much irregularity is coming from this kind of person from Serbia. He dragged the haulers of the most hideous posters that Marko's people neatly pasted all over Nikšić, and mockery and ridicule ensued. Vučić, it's not Daka the rabbit from the mountain, but the hero of Montenegro, so hit on you... This is the face of Vučić who didn't want to check what was being done for 16 months. If the whole of China struck, it would not be able to knock down Nikšić and bring him to his knees. This is the second coup d'état that Vučić is plotting...", said Davidović.
What is the security situation in Nikšić?
20:50 - Koprivica showed the judgment which he says is from 2007.
"With which a powerful man was absolved who killed a fellow citizen with his own hand in an inhumane and unchivalrous way while he was on a stretcher. It is important that we find out the truth about everything," said Koprivica.
20:48 - Đurišić-Bečanović said that Montenegro "has no greater enemy than DPS personnel".
"The bottom line is that URA will not lead Montenegro to ruin and far away..." said Đurišić-Bečanović.
20:46 - Kovačević said that "he finds it interesting that Nikolić, Davidović and DPS have the same target".
"It is that everything bad that happens in Montenegro is the fault of Serbia or someone who rules in Serbia. Someone would get the wrong impression that all this time Montenegro was ruled by someone from Serbia, not DPS. I am interested in why Davidović stopped on the same side as Nikolić and DPS. I do NOT see any reason to conduct dirty propaganda against the neighboring country. Serbia is constantly being picked on, relations must be improved," Kovačević said.
20:44 - Nikolić said that "if someone says that the situation in Nikšić is good, it is not good".
"Ms. Bečanović, we were in power for 18 years and while you were in DPS we were together. At the local level, we were in power for 10 years. We were in opposition to DPS for many years... and opened the door to the referendum. Let's build Montenegro and we are not going far there," said Nikolić.
20:42 - Koprivica reminded that "the people who planned the assassination of Bishop Joaniki also planned the liquidation of Aleksa Bečić.
"I have no doubt that during the campaign they followed me, as well as the candidates from our list. There is no fear in Nikšić, citizens are not afraid, DPS is losing the race to survive politically and resorts to criminal methods. We have overcome fear, security can only be brought by those people who I can look bravely in the eyes...", said Koprivica.
He added that "the criminal structure of DPS also tried to resort to pressure on employees".
"Citizens, don't be afraid," said Koprivica.
20:38 - I don't feel threatened in Nikšić, I trust the police and their work, said Đurišić Bečanović.
"Mr. Nikolić, it was precisely because of people like you that I bypassed politics. In the end, it happened that it was necessary to intervene and fix the situation. You repeat the platitudes of the DPS, I was hoping that you would come up with your own authentic SDP discourse. it doesn't matter if I'm arguing with you or with the representatives of DPS. I'm asking you if you think that Duško Bjelica should be the head of the University. My criterion is the following: I'm interested in someone's scientific references. The current rector has that. We must forget that we judge people by identity. Me and you accuse members of the URE of treason. That is cruelly punished. The next thing you will do is put us in front of a firing squad. We have brought about the collapse of the regime that you are trying to maintain with your modest political forces..." said Đurišić-Bečanović.
20:34 - Since the beginning of the campaign, the DPS has been trying to put itself in the position of a victim... We had stands in the city center for two months where our youth talked to fellow citizens in the square in the center. They attacked our activist Luka Trebješanin, then we had shifts in the police that were supposed to relax the situation. But they attacked the Musikic estate where we had a great example where ours and the members of the Peace is Our Nation coalition defended themselves against the wild hordes... It is clear that only the DPS is comfortable with conflicts and tensions... we did not respond to that because no we contribute to all that. We want election day to pass peacefully," Kovačević said.
20: 32 - Nikolić said that Nikšić was being manipulated by "various emissaries from Serbia and Republika Srpska and various wills and troubles".
"You know what kind of campaign is being waged against Montenegro, convicted war criminals are commenting on the elections in Nikšić, when everything that needs to be done in Montenegro is on stage. Certain Vlada Mandić, Smiljanović and various Rakićs did not come to Niukšić to get rid of local problems are due to other things," said Nikolić.
He said that the URA, through its coalition partners, "enabled the genocide of Montenegrin institutions of culture and education".
20:29 - "The President of the Parliamentary Committee for Security Control in Serbia, Igor Bečić, stated that high officials of the MUP of Montenegro were involved in the attempted assassination of Daka Davidović and Bishop Joaniki. The situation escalated when I pulled Vučić out of the hole and conveyed only what was family Vučić's newspaper reported that Vučić's henchmen called trouble shot me. Vučić accused me of helping Đukanović, and he doesn't remember that he sent half of the DF to prison with his statement about the coup. I have absolutely nothing to do with DPS. Yes if Đukanović was not there, no one would even know he was born. He would have remained what he is, as Vladila Atanasije called him, "a brat and a traitor to Kosovo," Davidović said.
Are the election participants adapting to the epidemiological situation?
20:30 - Koprivica said that "peace is winning" in Nikšić.
"We believe that the local administration should contribute to the construction of apartments for the employees of the hospital, as well as the medical staff... to resolve the issue so that the best doctors do not leave the city," said Koprivica.
20:28 - Đurišić-Bečanović said that "there are rumors about URE that it is a traitor to Montenegro".
20:26 - Kovačević said that "DPS will be convincingly defeated" on Sunday.
"This DPS list is the first in 25 years that does not bear the name of Milo Đukanović. They are consciously setting Sanja Damjanović to lose instead of Đukanović and Milutin Simović," Kovačević said.
He called on voters "to vote as soon as possible".
"And we wait for the election results quite calmly at home and celebrate with our loved ones"
20:24 - Nikolić said that he could not go on the trip to Podgorica "because there were autolithies".
"Crowds, playing, flags, and Kovačević says that the local authorities are responsible for that... If you say that, then you have to say that the local government in Budva is yours and the first thing that happened was the locking of Budva," he said. Nikolic
20:22 - Davidović said that it was "not useful" for him to run for mayor.
"I am here for the sake of the citizens and their better tomorrow," said Davidović
20: 20 - Koprivica called on party supporters to celebrate the "victory over DPS" at home.
"Let's be dignified that evening. The pandemic will be defeated, the number of sick people will decrease and thus we will prepare for the tourist season..." said Koprivica.
20:16 - After 30 years of one regime, you have an epidemiological situation that no one could have predicted. The epidemic took a lot of victims... The increase in aggressiveness in this society is evident - motorcades, demonstrating one's identity in that way is fatal. There won't be any celebration no matter how the elections end, no matter how they end... That already endangered health is being endangered with motorcades and gatherings. We violated the measures when we handed over the list... I tried to prevent it, but politics is fatal to life and health, it is like that because it subordinates everything to its goals...
20:12 - The current government is responsible for the current situation in Nikšić, which obstructs the measures that have been adopted... During this campaign, Andrija Mandić also urged the President of Serbia to get the first contingent of vaccines. Our coalition has already done something to combat the coronavirus. We will also ask for regional help in combating the coronavirus and we will receive an additional contingent of vaccines and Nikšić will become the first city to achieve collective immunity and let's continue our normal life...", said Kovačević.
20:08 - SDP is the first state-forming and state party in all these years. We have been on the right side of history for 30 years. We respect epidemiological measures. The health situation in Nikšić is alarming and dramatic... The situation is more than serious and we must all set an example. Both the former and current government are to blame for this situation..., said Nikolić.
He added that even Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić does not respect the measures.
"The most important thing is the health of citizens," said Nikolić
20:05 - The people's movement flooded Montenegro. Corona is a non-existent category for the People's Movement. Good will conquer evil wherever the People's Movement goes. We don't have corona because we don't hang around embassies, spy services and we don't whine about foreign countries. "This village has been so infected by various intruders, we have two ways to solve the problem - immunization and quick vaccination... On March 15, we will roll up our sleeves and work day and night," said Davidović.
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