Aleksa Bećić and Dritan Abazović, leaders of Democratic Front and URA, paid a visit to Brussels but it didn’t produce expected results.
The announced stop of boycott didn’t happen and the ultimatum they delivered- establishing the date of parliamentary and and local elections in the same day before the return to the Parliament- actually alienated the Government and the opposition from reaching an agreement.
It’s not very clear now whether Hahn and the team form the EC haven’t heard well what Bečić and Abazović had said or maybe these two are trying to cover themselves with the support from Europe and try to provide better negotiation position in Montenegro? Or maybe even Hahn and domestic opposition leaders are a little bit lost in translation?
After it had been announced that the majority of the opposition parties was coming back to the Parliament, Bečić and Abazović presented their plan for “overcoming complex political and institutional crisis in Montenegro”. The truth is they haven’t explained further what kind of crisis they were talking about, since, meanwhile, the local and presidential elections had been held regularly.
And although, Johannes Hahn proclaimed Bečić and Abazovič as “leaders of Montenegrin opposition”, it’s not very logical that they can be absolute leaders of the opposition with 10 out of 39 members of Parliament.
Bečić and Abazović went to Brussels followed by media pomp. They were welcomed by Johannes Hahn the very first day of their visit. But instead of an agreement regarding the comeback to the Parliament, the citizens were plunged into great confusion caused by contradictory interpretations and conclusions from the meeting.
