Prime Minister Milojko Spajić did not have time to meet with representatives of Montenegrin pensioners who are dissatisfied with the latest adjustment, which increased their incomes by an average of only about a euro and 70 cents, and they are still waiting to be received by the relevant minister, Novica Vuković.
This was stated on the Reflektor show by the Vice President of the Union of Pensioners' Associations of Montenegro, Krsto Radusinović, who said that the Government will have to fulfill all their demands, including an increase in pensions, and that in the future the adjustment will be made four times a year, and that they will receive a representative on the Social Council.
If that does not happen, pensioners are announcing protests.
The Pensioners' Movement of Montenegro has already scheduled a performance for February 19th in Bijelo Polje, after which they are ready to protest, and they are also announcing their participation in the next parliamentary elections.
"We will ask for money to be found. There is no pensioner you can ask now who would not say that there is money for everyone. For everyone and for everything, but there is none for pensioners. Let it come from debt. By the way, we live from debt and imports. They will have to find money, let them borrow, to increase both pensions and minimum pensions. Now more than half of pensioners in Montenegro are in a state of poverty," said Radusinović.
Asked if they were ready for protests, he replied:
"If they don't meet our needs, we will. For the first time, we will publicly call on pensioners to protest. From all associations, from all cities. From all over Montenegro."
The president of the Pensioners' Movement of Montenegro, Svetozar Čabarkapa, said that after the announced protest on February 19 in Bijelo Polje, they will definitely schedule a new protest.
"We will not tolerate this humiliation. Pensioners will certainly form a list, because they are forced to run for office."
When asked if it would be a good idea for pensioners to form a party, Čabarkapa said that he would not form a party, but a pensioners' movement.
"We are not going to form a party, we don't want that. We just want to enter the parliament, for our voice to be heard, so that decisions can no longer be made without pensioners," he said.
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