If the new Government of Montenegro is formed on Monday, it could already on Tuesday, 31 October, amend the Regulation on maintaining the census. While the Caretaker Government continues to say that if they are in power on 1 November, the census will begin on that day, Europe Now Movement (PES) says that the new government will be elected before the census begins and that they will stop it on time.
As PES’s Jelena Nedovic told TVCG, the party expects that the government will be elected before the census begins.
“When the government is formed, a new decree will be adopted at the next cabinet meeting, which will postpone the census for a month, and it is assumed that it will start on 1 December”, she explained.
It is even more uncertain that the handover of positions will happen quickly, that a cabinet meeting will be organized and that a new Regulation will be passed before 1 November. At that time the census would already start.
However, CDT says that it can be stopped.
“Everything can be done by government decisions”, says CDT’s Milica Kovacevic.
The question is whether 30 days of delay is enough.
“I think that a month is enough, because the parliamentary majority has shown to have tolerance for all political entities and citizens having doubts about the census”, Nedovic believes.
Milos Vukanovic, a historian, says that nothing can change in a month, only if software was developed that would allow every citizen to check the entered data.
“An adequate system can hardly be set up for a month”, he believes.
