When asked if he believes that PES could go down the wrong path after his exit, because there was a lot of talk about the alliance with DPS, and whether he believes in those scenarios or thinks that it is also speculation, Milatović answered:
"If I didn't think that PES had already gone down the right path, I wouldn't have left PES. With my resignation, I showed what I think at the moment. Whether PES can correct itself, it will depend on PES. I don't want to comment on the movement anymore ...", said Milatović.
Milatović said that for him the resignation from PES was "difficult and painful".
"It was difficult for me to see that some people are there because of some small personal things, and there are some. Mistakes are made, but when a person sees a mistake - that's where people differ. Some people bow their heads and continue, while others correct that mistake. "Unfortunately, I was put in a situation where I had to make this radical move because certain things went in the wrong direction from my perspective," he said.
When asked when he last spoke with Spajić and when they openly discussed the party, he answered:
"A long, long time ago. Believe me, a long time ago. Probably that mutual distrust grew... I think that's probably where we both contributed to it. There were no more conversations the way it worked before. After winning the presidential election, I almost froze my role in the movement's organs. I think that it was taken advantage of by certain people who were close to the previous regime, who were not there when the movement was founded and who were not formally in the movement, but who made some key decisions in the movement. Those people are in informal positions," said Milatović, not wanting to reveal the names of those people.
Asked if he plans to form a new party, Milatović replied:
"If the democratic processes in Montenegro demand this from me in the coming period, I will not run away from this responsibility".
Speaking about the Minister of Justice, Andrej Milović, he said that he met him when he was Spajić's assistant in the Ministry of Finance.
"Milović chose Spajić as an assistant for the directorate that dealt with cryptocurrencies. That's when he met Milović for the first time...", Milatović said, among other things.
He also added that he was elected as an assistant minister in the Ministry of Justice at the suggestion of, among others, Boris Pejović, then advisor to Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić.
"After that, when Spajić and I organized a movement to look for people who might cover the part concerning the rule of law, Milović entered the story of Pejović as well as Filip Ivanović's kind words," said Milatović.
When asked who is in a split in PES, "Milo, and who is Momir", Milatović answered:
"I don't think it can be compared. I wouldn't even dramatize what happened as some act that is so burdensome for the Montenegrin public, but that it is a step towards the democratization of Montenegro. It's just, we're just political mommies".
"To me, the arrival of Dodik, almost unannounced, was somewhat strange. Mr. Dodik is the president of Republika Srpska, my views on Bosnia and Herzegovina are very clear and I see it as one whole country, and that's all the talk I have with Mr. Dodik in that sense completed," said the President of Montenegro.
He added that he would like to hear the position of the Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"We have to learn to express our views publicly. The visit was organized in a strange way, neither the president nor the government were involved".
"In my future political activity, I will not speak about some people on a personal basis. I have always spoken in a value sense in relation to people's actions. It is important for me to say that the way in which PES itself functioned in the previous period was more like some things against which we fought, but what we had in our heads when we formed the movement... In the past few months, people who were not there from the beginning and who were especially close to the previous regime came to some visible places in PES I don't want to talk about names," Milatović pointed out.
He added that the future of PES will depend on the procedures and methods of work in the coming period.
Milatović also said that he had "heard some ugly words from his previous comrades" in the previous days.
"I really wouldn't comment on them. With those people, I did some historic things in the democratization of Montenegro. I think it's fair at one point to show off politically, but it's not fair to state certain untruths..."
He said that PES had only two municipal boards in the formal and legal sense - in Podgorica and Bar.
"Now de facto PES does not have any municipal board. When I stopped dealing with PES essentially, the meaningful development policy of infrastructure in motion also stopped," explained Milatović.
The President of the State also said that his participation in PES has not been active for a long period of time and that it has been since the moment he became the President of Montenegro.
Milatovi said that there were two key reasons for leaving PES.
As one, he stated "the lack of inclusive and reasoned dialogue about some important strategic development policies"
"I just didn't want to give legitimacy to certain decisions that I considered to be against the principles and principles of the Movement Europe Now. I didn't want to give legitimacy to the way of working that was in the previous few months. I think my decision was a fair attitude towards the Movement as well Europe now, I think that in one moment we drifted apart in terms of values, and the reason for this value drift is my decision to resign from the Europe now Movement," Milatović said.
The guest of the Načisto show is the President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović.
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