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Becic: Democrats and Europe Now’s candidate would win presidential elections

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A joint electoral list of the Democrats, Europe Now and possibly smaller party structures would achieve an impressive result in the elections, says the leader of Democratic Montenegro, Aleksa Becic, in an interview for the Voice of America.

Becic, who is visiting Washington with his associates, during which he met, among others, with the American envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, is optimistic that the judges of the Constitutional Court will be elected in the sixth attempt. He points out that this is the way to solving other political problems in the country, and that in March the conditions could be met for calling early parliamentary elections.

“Of course, a constructive relationship is expected from us, which we have shown in previous processes related to the unblocking of certain institutions in Montenegro”, Becic said the day after the meeting with officials at the State Department.

He reiterated that his party is committed to European integration, Euro-Atlantic partnership and strengthening of Montenegro as a civil state.

“Only in the last few months, when we were again largely in the role of the opposition in the Montenegrin parliament, we were there – when we had to vote for the protocol on the accession of Sweden and Finland (to NATO) and the sending of soldiers to peacekeeping missions, and the resolution about the condemnation of Russian aggression in Ukraine, when the budget was to be supported so that citizens would not suffer the consequences, when constructiveness was to be shown during the election of judges of the Constitutional Court and in all other processes that are important for the future of Montenegro”, says the former Montenegrin parliament speaker.

Referring to the upcoming presidential elections, Becic says that “Democrats will never support a DPS candidate. I am convinced, however, that a candidate of moderate civic political structures will enter the second round and win the presidential elections, so it is really a very hypothetical question that, in my opinion, is not even theoretically possible”.

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