Negotiation teams of the three coalitions that won in the recent elections didn’t manage to reach an agreement concerning the principles for setting up the new government yesterday, and failed to agree on chief posts in the Parliament of Montenegro, the daily Pobjeda has learned.
A source close to Pobjeda who knows about the details from the meeting told that the coalitions didn’t agree on the future parliament speaker even though the parliament’s sitting is due on 23 September.
The secretary-general of the Democrats, Mr Boris Bogdanović, who denied the media allegations telling that the Democrats will take the lead role in the parliament, confirmed this information last night.
Meanwhile, several sources of Pobjeda tell the agreement can’t be reached because of the conclusion of the URA movement Main Board, stating that certain people from other parties cannot assume posts in the new government.
“In this delicate moment and divided society such as the Montenegrin is, people who divide Montenegro by their actions and provoke negative emotions in a certain number of citizens cannot run departments in the new government,” suggests the conclusion of the URA Main Board.
It’s expected negotiations to continue in the beginning of next week, when leaders of the three coalitions are going to meet, and when we’ll definitely know whether the new parliamentary majority has its candidate for the parliament speaker.
“Right now, it’s unlikely to expect that we could reach an agreement and propose a candidate, so we’ll most probably just verify the mandates for MPs,” Pobjeda’s source has concluded.
