Vujović said that Pandora's box is opening.
"We heard tonight that the Europe Movement now wants to start making changes to the Constitution," Vujović said.
He said that Prime Minister Milojko Spajić is opening this issue with great potential to cause political and social instability.
Marić said that one of the solutions is that everyone can have as many citizenships as they want, but that only those who have only Montenegrin citizenship can vote.
"That would be rigid and I would support it if I only thought with emotions. We have to think in the categories of the future, the context that tomorrow we will be a state of the European Union, that we have to do the liberalization of many segments of public policies. I invite us to do it with a serious procedure, analysis , projections, not to run, that this issue does not serve to improve the annex of the coalition agreement," said Marić.
He said that Montenegrin citizenship is a sensitive issue and carries many risks.
Dragović said that the idea of liberal citizenship, which was presented by Prime Minister Milojko Spajić, and which PES supports, is not the result of blackmail, pressure or a political agreement behind the scenes to preserve power.
"This is a permanent idea of PES presented during the election campaign. Montenegrin national interests are of an absolute nature. We will not enter into a change in legal regulations, the Constitution or any agreement with any country that would threaten Montenegrin national interests," said Dragović.
Vukićević said that their goal is to open dialogue, not imposition, and to reach the widest possible consensus.
She said that their goal was to initiate an agreement with Serbia, that is, to start talks.
"Our priority is to protect Montenegro, to have a clearly defined residence issue and to have cooperation from both Serbia and Montenegro," said Vukićević.
Vukićević said that she does not agree that the Constitution can be changed through bilateral agreements.
Marić said that the Constitution cannot be changed through a bilateral agreement.
Dragović said that the liberalization of Montenegrin citizenship is the idea of the Europe Now Movement (PES).
He also said that the Constitution can be changed through a bilateral agreement, so that the two-year residence requirement for acquiring the right to vote, which is currently prescribed by the Constitution, can be changed to ten.
Vujović told him that the Constitution cannot be changed by a bilateral agreement.
Dragović reported on the provision of the Constitution that says "confirmed and published international treaties and generally accepted rules of international law are an integral part of the internal legal order..."
Vujović told him that it is so if it is in harmony with the Constitution.
Dragović said that with the agreement on accession to the NATO pact, it is the state's obligation not to accede to agreements that are in conflict with that agreement.
"In my opinion, that is unconstitutional, but that agreement, as an international agreement, has supremacy over the Constitution and is part of the legal order. In the same way, a bilateral agreement on dual citizenship would be part of the legal order, which would define different deadlines for obtaining the right to vote. However, with I don't agree with that, that it is a good way," said Dragović.
Article 45 of the Constitution stipulates that the right to vote and be elected belongs to a citizen of Montenegro who has reached the age of 18 and has resided in Montenegro for at least two years.
On June 21, Prime Minister Milojko Spajić announced at a press conference that citizens who receive Montenegrin citizenship through changes to the law of the same name will have to spend more than six months each year in the country and will only receive the right to vote after ten years.
However, three hours later, after stormy reactions from part of the public, Spajić's cabinet came out with a "clarification" that changes to the Law on Montenegrin Citizenship will be made only after all protective legal mechanisms have been provided, and that constitutional changes are a prerequisite for such solutions.
The program aired the first episode of TV Vijesti.
Since the beginning of the application of the Law on Montenegrin Citizenship, that is, from May 5, 2008 until today, a total of 30.409 requests for admission to Montenegrin citizenship have been accepted, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) told Television News.
Over half of the passports, i.e. 15.199, were granted according to Article 11 of the Law, on the basis of family reunification, and to which persons who have been married to a Montenegrin citizen for at least three years and have legally and continuously resided in Montenegro for at least five years before submitting the application - can be granted Montenegrin citizenship.
During this period, various governments granted more than two and a half thousand honorary citizenships. At the same time, during 16 years, a considerable number of citizens renounced their Montenegrin citizenship.
Vujović said that Serbia provides information when it suits them politically.
He also said that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, is interested in the impeachment proceedings in Montenegro.
"You had negotiations on a bilateral agreement, right after the referendum, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Government of Montenegro entered into that type of negotiations with Serbia. Do you know at which point the negotiations stopped? At the point that the Montenegrin side then requested that Serbia provide data on 36.000 granted dual citizenships that they gave to Montenegrin citizens in a year and a half completely illegally, contrary to the Constitution," Vujović said.
He said that according to some estimates, there are around 100.000 illegal dual citizens in Montenegro, who have double voting rights.
Dragović said that he does not think that anyone has the idea of secretly waiting and making Montenegro a part of Serbia, Bosnia or any other country in ten years.
"In Montenegro today, you have thousands of Russians, Ukrainians, Turks who have Montenegrin citizenship and greater rights than many Montenegrin citizens. Why shouldn't some people who were born in Montenegro, some now live here, and they don't have citizenship, some are in Serbia. Nobody's goal is to do electoral engineering, to increase the number of voters and change the electoral structure," Vukićević said.
She said that the fiercest opponent is that people who live somewhere else decide about us.
"We had it on stage for 30 years, so many of those who are now loud did not advertise, but the situation absolutely suited them. Nobody wants anyone who lives outside the territory of Montenegro to decide about the citizens of Montenegro," Vukićević said. .
Vujović said that it is a forced and imposed topic.
He said that Montenegro must protect its concept of citizenship, otherwise we will have very serious problems on the political and social scene.
Marić asked - "does anyone know what the target group is and how many people would be covered by the eventual liberalization of Montenegrin citizenship?"
Dragović said that he knows and said that the issue of citizenship liberalization presented by Prime Minister Milojko Spajić is at the level of an idea that deserves broad social consensus and discussion by political actors.
He ordered not to talk about the draft law or the proposal of the Government and the line ministry.
"One of the constitutive elements of the right to citizenship is the positioning of the national, identity component through citizenship status. The approach to the identity component is not the same between us and them. In our understanding, the identity component is not a limitation or electoral engineering in the way that Mr. Vujović interprets it, i.e. strictly preserving the current of the electorate nor electoral engineering in the direction of an uncontrolled increase in the number of voters," said Dragović.
Vukićević said that their motive is to correct injustice towards people who do not have the same rights as many others.
"Thousands of people who do not have citizenship live in Montenegro. That is a socio-economic issue for my colleague Vujović. Today, my phone is full of information about how many families contacted me from Bar alone, whose children were born here. I have an example of a girl who, until the age of 16 she didn't have any citizenship, neither by her parents' origin nor by her birth. This is a question that concerns them first," said Vukćević.
On June 21, Prime Minister Milojko Spajić announced at a press conference that citizens who receive Montenegrin citizenship through changes to the law of the same name will have to spend more than six months each year in the country and will only receive the right to vote after ten years.
However, three hours later, after stormy reactions from part of the public, Spajić's cabinet came out with a "clarification" that changes to the Law on Montenegrin Citizenship will be made only after all protective legal mechanisms have been provided, and that constitutional changes are a prerequisite for such solutions.
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