Vice-President of Social Democrats of Montenegro and the Minister of Education, Damir Šehović, said in the interview for “Pobjeda” that the “Agreement on Future”, signed by all the opposition members of the Parliament and organizers of the protest, was a platform for deep past and returning Montenegro to pre-political times.
“Requests that lead to non-institutional decapitation of the state and elections, just because it occurred to somebody from the opposition to do so, being totally aware that it would be impossible to change the government in the elections, are not and will never be acceptable to us, in SD”, said Mr Šehović.
He pointed out that the Agreement was some sort of confession that they agreed that they couldn’t agree on anything serious.
“Not even a single letter of that Agreement supports the program commitment, or the priorities in the internal and external policy they advocate for. Instead of stating what is it they want, what policy they advocate for, we read that they all agreed that it would be very nice if they got unearned functions and took over the Prime Minister’s position, as well as two thirds of ministerial positions. Without elections! They obviously came to terms with the fact that they can’t request anything in the elections”, pointed out Mr Šehović.
Members of Social Democrats are ready for the conversation with everybody. For ultimatums though – no.
“Especially not the requests that are aimed at making the election process totally senseless. What’s the purpose of elections then? Is somebody has come up with an idea of requesting some sort of hybrid, transitional government made up of those who had lost all previous elections? No negotiations on that. We suggest they finally wake up from that deep opposition dream, and realize that the Government is formed in the elections. If they can’t do that, they should resign and let others try to achieve what they haven’t been able to achieve for decades”, said Minister Šehović.
He claims that opposition parties are enemies for one another. They have become a homogenized whole only because they share political fears.
“Some of them are afraid of disappearing from the political scene, and others are afraid of facing the judgment and serious consequences that might follow from that judgment”, added Mr Šehović.
