Portal CdM exclusively publishes the draft agreement on the census, which should be signed by the representatives of the Government of Montenegro and the opposition parties. The agreement would define the conditions and specify the details of the conditions for maintaining the census. It is expected that Prime Minister Milojko Spajic and opposition representatives will consider the proposed text of the agreement on the census in the coming days.
CdM announced earlier that PM Spajic is ready to accept all the demands of the opposition regarding the census.
So far, PM Spajic had two rounds of negotiations with representatives of the opposition, minority councils, the non-governmental sector and representatives of all municipalities on the census. At the meetings, as was announced to the public, numerous positions on the census implementation were agreed upon.
The text of the proposed agreement says, among other things, that the method of carrying out the census would guarantee obtaining relevant and precise data recognized by all related entities in Montenegro. This refers to: the expansion of census commissions with two new members of the opposition and one member of the council of less numerous peoples in the cities where they are represented; for enumerators and instructors, new public calls should be announced, which, in addition to the general conditions, will contain a measure of affirmative action for members of the Roma population in the form of 3 degrees of education; the legal regulation of the issue of developing software for checking data collected during the population census process; the obligation to facilitate parliamentary oversight through the formation of a parliamentary committee on a parity basis between the government and the opposition with the co-chairmanship of presiding over the committee.
The agreement should also specify the data entry control, prohibition of the influence of political parties during the census and manual counting of data on nationality, religion and language as a control mechanism for checking software operation on a representative sample.
The agreement would also contain two appendices containing tables. The first appendix would provide data on the number of census circles by municipality. The other one would refer to the data on nationality and ethnicity, religion, native language, the language the person usually speaks.
