Irresponsible and bad-mannered behavior, foolishness. This is how some interlocutors for CdM comment on the fact that Democrats and URA fail to participate in the work of Parliament but are rather planning to open a dialogue soon so that they can create “fair environment in which every forthcoming cycle of elections will take place”.
Leaders of Democrats and URA, Aleksa Bečić and Dritan Abazović, alarmed the public a couple of months ago when they announced the story about the reform of electoral legislation. They went that far as to visit Brussels and inform the Commissionaire for Enlargement , Johannes Hahn, about their plans. They were given support by Hahn. But once they had to do something about it, something concrete, they disappeared.
MP of the DPS, Danijel Živković, says that parallel forums are just so-called parallel stages where they try to justify their absence from the parliamentary life.
“Apart from irresponsibility, this is also an example of lack of education and culture. How else what you describe the fact that there are members of the Parliament who haven’t come to their work for two years but still earn their salaries? However, they were still left a free place in the working group dealing with the electoral legislation. That way, DPS showed its democratic capacity, and those who didn’t show up in the Parliament demonstrated their political amateurism”, said Živković.
Democratic Front wonders where so much love comes from and why a vacant place is kept for Bečić and Abazović.
“Looks like this summer a great agreement was reached regarding electoral legislation. Agreement between URA and Democrats and Duško Marković. When they figured out that we didn’t buy that story, Democrats and URA started attacking DF. But we didn’t swallow that either. We knew very well that they were trying to hide the deal they had with Marković”, said Jovan Vučurović, member of DF.
As he said, they realized the importance of this moment and they want to ensure the regularity of the election process and prevent blackmailing, buying identity cards and other malfeasance.
Civic Movement URA sees the whole situation differently.
“We realized the importance of this moment long time ago. I’ll remind you that in June, we presented the comprehensive Reform plan, together with our colleagues from Democrats and we were supported by all official EU addresses. DPS and functionaries of the opposition laughed at this document and made fun at the idea which meant resolution of problems Montenegro is faced with. Therefore, the temporary parliamentary committee will deal with anything you want except from the crucial subject. Instead, that will be a committee dealing with manipulations, identity questions, division on blocks etc.”, said Bojan Jevrić, head of Media team.
He added that they didn’t hope that such Committee could act responsibly and create an environment for fair and free elections.
