After Abazovic's fall, the EU calls for a truly pro-European government in Montenegro

Montenegro, according to the chairman of the European Parliament delegation for co-operation with Montenegro, Vladimir Bilkki, needs a truly pro-European government that can give priority to the European Union's strategic reforms instead of narrow political interests.

The Slovak Eurodeput statement comes a day after the Montenegrin parliament voted in favour of the no-confidence motion against Dritan Abazovic's government.

After last night's no-confidence vote, Montenegro needs a truly pro government - The EU, which could give priority to EU strategic reforms on narrow political interests”, has written Bilic on Twitter.

According to him, Montenegro could become a member of the European Union on the day it successfully resolves some difficult domestic political tasks.

“We are ready to help”, he added.

The government's dismissal voted 50 deputies present and one against. Montenegro's Parliament has a total of 81 deputies. A government's collapse takes 41 or more.

The initiative for distrust of Abazovic's government has been presented by 36 DPS deputies, the Social Democrat Party, the Liberal Party, Social Democrats and several other parties, just hours after Abazovic signed the Constitutional Agreement with the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Their reasoning said that the Government has had priority duty to create preconditions for intensifying Montenegro's European integration process, based on judicial system reforms and strengthening rule of law. He added that a government “is needed to give priority to EU strategic reforms over narrow political interests”.

Reactions from Montenegro

On August 20th, the leader of the pro-Serbian Democratic Front in Montenegro, Andrija Ma persecuted, told Serbian Radio Television (RTS), following the vote of no confidence in the Abazovic government, that he regretted losing a big chance to form a government that would be an expression of the parliamentary majority for which Montenegrin citizens voted.

“We have invested a lot of energy, not because of politicians, but because of people who enjoyed that after 30 years the government of Milo Djukanovic” was replaced, Ma persecuted.

The thirty-year government of Socialist Democratic Party Milo Djukanovic ended in the 2020 elections.

Initially, the so-called Zravko Krivokapiqi expert government was formed, which worked until the beginning of 2022. Abazovic's minority government was formed on April 28th.

Follow me also told about RTS that the government of Dritan Abazovic will be remembered for signing the Constitutional Agreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church.

The immediate cause of the government's collapse initiative is dissatisfaction with the signing of the Constitutional Agreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church on August 3rd, which representatives of some political parties considered harmful to Montenegro's national interests.

The pro-Serbian Democratic Front, the Socialist People's Party, Democrats and a series of smaller parties, which strongly support the Serbian Orthodox Church in their programmes, expressed satisfaction with the signing of the Constitutional Agreement.

Out of a total of 81 deputies, 50 deputies from Milo Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists, Montenegro's Democratic Party Alexe Beciq, the Social Democrat Party, the Social Democrats, the Bosniak Party, the Democratic Union of Albanians and Montenegro's Right voted for the collapse of the government.

Parliament Speaker Danijela Djurovic of the Socialist People's Party was opposed.

Other MPs from the pro-Serbian Democratic Front, Socialist People's Party, Demos and the U Civic Movement Abazovic's RA did not participate in the vote.

Zdravko Krivokapiq, former prime minister of Montenegro, wrote on Twitter on August 20th, “will pass! And it goes fast. We now have to be transformed individually, especially politicians, for the benefit of Montenegro's transformation”.

From now on, Abazovic's government will function on technical mandate, so until the new government is elected. Abazovic, following the no-confidence vote, told reporters he would not participate in forming the new government.

Dritan Abazovic was Montenegro's first prime minister to belong to a national minority community. In Zdravko Krivokapiqi's previous government, he was deputy chairman. Following the launch of the fall of the Krivokapic government in February of this year, Abazovic became the new prime minister with the help of Socialist Democratic Party Milo Djukanovic.

The collapse of the Government opens up the possibility of forming a new, third government, given the election results of the August 2020 parliamentary elections. /rel