Montenegrin Party: Unknown people founded a new Montenegrin party before elections were called in Serbia

The Montenegrin Party announced that, a few days after announcing their support for the Student List in the elections in Serbia on October 25, they learned that the "Montenegrin Democratic Party", consisting of people unknown to them, was entered into the Register of Political Parties in that country on September 1.

The Montenegrin Party believes that this is an "attempt to abuse the Montenegrin name and the status of a national minority in the electoral process", and that the newly founded party reached an agreement nine days after its foundation on a joint appearance in the parliamentary elections with the Sandžak Democratic Party, with an agreement that it would receive 30 percent of the candidates on the joint electoral list.

"It is even more unusual that, according to our knowledge, there was no publicly known or visible campaign within the Montenegrin community to collect at least 1.000 certified signatures of founders, as required by law to establish a political party of a national minority. A thousand people is not a small group that can gather unnoticed," they wrote in a statement.

Because of all this, they publicly asked: who are the founders of the Montenegrin Democratic Party, where and when was the action of gathering them and collecting signatures carried out, who organized that action, and who are the people who make up the party's leadership today.

"Allegations have already been published in the media that behind the newly founded party are people politically connected to the structures of another party. We do not want to declare media allegations as facts, but after all the above, we believe that they require a clear and unambiguous answer... The Montenegrin name cannot and must not serve as an electoral shortcut, nor the Montenegrin community as a political front for other people's interests," they concluded in a statement.

At its session on September 7, the Serbian Government adopted a proposal to dissolve the National Assembly and call early parliamentary elections, after which it sent it to Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.

On September 9, Vučić signed the Decree on the Dissolution of the Serbian Parliament and the Decision on the Call for Early Parliamentary Elections, which will be held on October 25.