The request of a part of the opposition, which considers that Mandic, the leader of the "For the Future of Montenegro" coalition, "is not worthy" to be the head of the parliament, was rejected.
The Parliament of Montenegro rejected the initiative to dismiss its president Andrija Mandić.
That was the request of a part of the opposition, which believes that Mandić, the leader of the "For the Future of Montenegro" coalition, is "not worthy" to be the head of the parliament. The parties of the ruling majority were against that proposal of the opposition parties, led by the strongest among them - the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS). 27 out of 72 MPs voted for the dismissal of Mandić, while 44 MPs of the Assembly, which has a total of 81, voted against it.
DPS, Social Democrats (SD) and the Democratic Union of Albanians (DUA) believe that Mandić is a "weight on the neck of European" Montenegro and that since coming to the head of the parliament he has "grossly abused" the legislative chamber "for the implementation of narrow-party, nationalist and anti-European politics".
As examples of such action, the opposition singled out in the initiative the recent reception of the President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik in the premises of the Parliament of Montenegro, the display of the tricolor in the cabinet of the Speaker of the Parliament, Mandic's departure to celebrate the victory of the coalition of Aleksandar Vučić in the elections in Serbia and the failure to provide evidence of when he acquired citizenship of Serbia.
"Dodik's visit is a dangerous flirtation with the policy of breaking BiH"
DPS believes that the organization of Dodik's "semi-official visit" and his reception in the official premises of the Assembly represent "dangerous flirting with the policy of breaking up Bosnia and Herzegovina, an attempt to destabilize relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and obstruction of Montenegro's European path".
That party, headed by Danijel Živković who replaced Milo Đukanović, points out that Montenegrin regulations do not allow dual citizenship acquired after June 2006 and states that there is a suspicion that Mandić is illegally in possession of Montenegrin citizenship, and thus in the position of Speaker of the Assembly. The other parties of minority nations - Bosniaks and Croats - as well as the Civic Movement URA of the recent Prime Minister Dritan Abazović agreed with the initiators of the initiative, which believes that Mandić, "regardless of the attempt to change the narrative and turn towards the EU, is causing huge divisions in society".
The ruling "Europe Now Movement" (PES) of Prime Minister Milojko Spajić did not take part in the debate, which at the beginning of the session withdrew the initiative to omit the proposal on the dismissal of Mandić from the agenda, thereby enabling the debate. Responding to the criticism, Mandić assessed that the opposition MPs "tried to humiliate him and present him as he is not".
He said that Dodik's visit and the tricolor in his cabinet are two new things attributed to him by the opposition, and that everything else is a story that has been following him since before assuming the office of the President of the Assembly.
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