Budva city council’s sitting scheduled for tomorrow won’t take place. The ruling coalition is no longer capable of securing a majority in the council.
The crisis in the Budva local government started on 10 July when the independent councillor Stevan Dzakovic refused to attend the sitting. He conditioned his attendance with the request that the parties forming the majority in the city council initiate changes to the Law on Election of Councillors and Members of Parliament, in Parliament.
There have been almost no changes since then.
“I won’t attend the sitting. I see no reason why I should provide majority to the local governance when it has done nothing to fulfil my demands,” Dzakovic said, adding that Budva mayor Dragan Krapovic’s “pathetic public appeals” were meaningless. “The issues he mentioned are not more important than my struggle for freely electing representatives of Montenegro citizens instead of having party leaders from Podgorica who decide about everything.
The crisis has obviously reached culmination. It is not certain whether snap local elections will be scheduled or a new majority in the city council will be formed.
DPS stated it would not make quorum to the local governance that had brought no good to the municipality.
However, Budva mayor Krapovic said that neither he nor his party (the Democrats) would give in to blackmail.
“We are always ready for elections. If someone wants to give the city governance to DPS without elections, that would not be our fault,” he said.
He recently announced that the issues that were supposed to be discussed at the sitting included protection of the Milocer park, allowing local kindergarten to use municipal business space in TQ Plaza for free and adopting necessary decision in order for the Daily Care Centre for Children with Disabilities to start working.
The City Council is supposed to hold two sittings scheduled for 29 and 30 August.
