TIRANA, September 24 – The acting Prime Minister of Montenegro, Dritan Abazovic, said that the Assembly should vote on the initiative to dismiss the President, Milo Djukanovic. In an interview with VOA, he said it would send an important political message.
Deputies of the parliamentary majority, the pro-Russian Democratic Front, the Democrats and the URA Civic Movement have started the procedure for the dismissal of the president, Milo Djukanovic, in the Assembly of Montenegro, on September 23. They claim that Djukanovic violated the Constitution during the procedure for the appointment of the representative for the formation of the Government.
“We are now a newly constituted majority, which supports the formation of a new Government, but it is quite diverse with different political entities, which have different visions. The solution will surely come in the elections, but it is not the president who will decide when those elections will take place,” said Abazovic quoted by REL on Saturday.
After the overthrow of Dritan Abazovic’s government, on August 20, the three parties that won the majority in the parliamentary elections in Montenegro agreed that Miodrag Lekić should be the representative for the composition of the new Government. However, they did not submit the signatures of 41 deputies a number which they have together in the 81-seat Assembly.
Djukanovic rejected the proposal for Lekić to be a representative for the formation of the new Government of this country on the grounds that the necessary conditions have not been met. At the same time, he proposed shortening the mandate of the current composition of the Assembly of Montenegro to pave the way for new elections.
The parliamentary majority parties opposed the new elections and continued to insist that Djukanovic should accept Lekić as a candidate, and a day after the deadline they submitted their 41 signatures in support of this candidacy. Abazovic said in the interview that he has also discussed with American officials “the accusations that Russia secretly financed the Democratic Front in 2016 and possibly in 2018”.
He said that illegal financing of political parties should be part of the agenda in the fight against corruption.
In the interview after his first speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations, Abazovic said that Montenegro will not change the course of its foreign policy and that he had also conveyed this to his international partners. /Argumentum.al
