The Director of the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT), Dragan Koprivica, assessed that the initiative to redirect funds intended for political parties to child allowances is a political game without a realistic basis.
In our "Colors of Morning", he reminded that three months ago, the parties unanimously increased their own funding to a record level in Europe and that current announcements of funding cuts would be the product of hypocrisy.
Koprivica said that a serious state policy would not tie social benefits to party funds, but would plan them in the budget, and added that Montenegro still does not have a responsible political elite ready to make decisions in the public interest.
"In the classic Montenegrin political context, the game of reducing parties, giving to children, then we have the sad story of giving to children, reducing parties, etc. I don't think that will happen. And even if it does happen, it doesn't matter. We need to know that this is the product of another political hypocrisy that happened three months ago when they set a convincing European record for how much money they receive. So, I think that as long as the state is run in that way and politics in the state is run in that way, if you connect that money from parties with the money that children need to receive, we will look like this. A serious state policy would now plan funds for the increase in this budget and not tie them to anything else, these pathetic political games that we are watching would not be played," Koprivica assessed.
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