Tensions run high in Montenegro as the three blocs that won the recent elections are trying to reach an agreement on the composition of the new government. Leader of the Movement for Changes, Mr Nebojša Medojević, claims that URA movement blackmails the rest of the ruling coalition. The Democratic Front, DF, officials and members have urged their leaders via social media, Mr Andrija Mandić and Mr Milan Knežević, not to allow blackmailing of Mr Dritan Abazović and the coalition Black on White.
Some threaten that they are going to require their leaders to quit if they accept Mr Abazović’s requests, as it’d be contrary to the will of the people who voted for them on 30 August.
Mr Medojević posted on social networks that Mr Abazović’s coalition has been blackmailing the rest of the coalition comprising 37 MPs.
“URA movement won only 4 seats and is blackmailing us. What part of it do you not understand?” he tweeted.
But their dissatisfaction doesn’t seem to cease there.
These days, social media have been flooded with disappointment of the DF supporters, primarily their officials and members.
A spokesperson of the New Serbian Democracy, Mr Marko Kovačević, was adamant – Not on behalf of ourselves – clearly stating that he and many others won’t accept giving up on their policy.
“Having in mind the recent events and as I see that leaders of my party, the New Serbian Democracy, express readiness to fully accept proposals of URA movement, with all due respect to them, I have to ask the leader of the party where I have been engaged for almost 15 years on various jobs, in whose politics I have never been disappointed, the party which has always taken into account the interests of the people to whom I belong, which has fought faithfully against organized crime: who has the right to just reject the policies and principles that we have been fighting for years, which were a key factor in the victory over the DPS in these elections, on behalf of many others from the New Serbian Democracy and myself?,” he posted on Facebook.
He continued by clearly stating that they weren’t fighting for this.
“The DPS was offering this same thing and many others to Andrija Mandić and the New Serbian Democracy back in 2013, and we were all so proud that we didn’t even consider it, we never even thought it might be an option, regardless of the positive feedback we’d have got from Europe and the region. We were so proud to have rejected their proposals, as in those times, Andrija Mandić used to represent us. Who is now giving up on all those principles on behalf of all us and myself?,” the Nova spokesperson says.
A member of the Democratic People’s Party, DNP, Mr Aleksandar Sekulić, also posted on Facebook: “If Milan Knežević gives in to the pressure of blackmailers, as a member of the DNP management, I’ll ask him to take responsibility and resign for betraying the interests of my party.”
Leader of the Movement for Changes, Mr Nebojša Medojević, has been saying for days that he’s not going to accept any blackmail.
