a minute agoAbazovic not worried about Western messages freezing negotiations with Montenegro
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(3 years ago)Montenegro's technical mandate Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic said he did not worry about the messages of Western partners, who warned of the possibility of freezing European Union negotiations with Montenegro, if the parliamentary majority forms a new Government, on the basis of conflicting changes in the Law to the President. “
“At the moment, I am not much in charge of this”, Abazovic told reporters in Budva on December 27th.
At the initiative of the pro-rus Democratic Front, the parliamentary majority adopted amendments to the Law for President on December 12th.
With the adoption of this law, this majority will take part of President Milo Djukanovic's competencies in the election of the new government.
On December 26th, opposition movement Abazovic's URA, the pro-Russian Democratic Front and Democrats handed over to Djukanovic 41 signatures in support of Miodrag Lekiqi's candidacy for forming Montenegro's government.
They urge the president to hold consultations with the parties and propose Lekicin as candidate. If he does not, the parliamentary majority will propose the successor.
The amended Law on President, who receives constitutional authority to Djukanovic to appoint a representative, is enabled by this law, because in September, for formal reasons, he refused to trust Lekiqi's mandate for forming the government.
The EU has indicated that negotiations with Montenegro could be raised if the Government is formed on the basis of this law. Even the US has said several times they oppose the pro-Russian Democratic entry into Government.
However, Abazovic said that he does not burden messages from the west. He added that “is not in anyone's interest” for Montenegro to enter “any international misunderstanding”.
I don't expect any major misconceptions at the international level, nor do I think the subject that I represent, but it seems to me that even other subjects will in no way take any action to break it”, he said.
Asked what would happen if Djukanovic did not approve new consultations for the new government's mandate, Abazovic said it would mean the will of 41 MPs, who are majority in the Montenegrin Parliament, which has a total of 81 seats.
If he thinks he will bring any political benefit, let him continue, nor will it last long, his mandate is running out anyway, and soon we will have a new president”, he said.
He did not show when the formation of the new government is expected, and added that “does not have any particular agreement” with the pro-rus Democratic Front and that it is still being discussed on the composition of the cabinet, the purposes and principles of the new government.
Djukanovic has signed the decree with which the Law, opposed to the president, comes into force, but also said he would not participate in its implementation, because he considers it unconstitutional.
Negative thinking on the Law has also been given by the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe's advisory body.
The Constitutional Court, which must decide on the constitutionality of these changes, has been without quorum for more than three judges out of seven months.
Since the collapse of the Government, Abazovic has been on a technical mandate since 20 August.
This is the second government to fall in Montenegro, since the change of executive in August 2020, when the victory of the pro-Russian Democratic Front, Democrats and movement Abazovic's URA ended Djukanovic's 30-year reign.
Djukanovich's presidential mandate expires in the spring. / REL/
