Flag of Montenegro against the backdrop of the city of KotorBELGRADE, Feb. 4 Deputies of the Assembly (Parliament) of Montenegro by the majority votes expressed no confidence in the government of the country, headed by Zdravko Krivokapic, broadcast was conducted on the website of the Legislative Assembly. In Podgorica, months-long disagreements within the ruling majority reached a peak. On Thursday, MPs were supposed to vote on the replacement of Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the URA movement Dritan Abazovich, who had previously proposed to hold a vote of confidence in the government and form a new Cabinet, but did not collect the necessary quorum. On February 4, the Assembly at the plenary session discussed confidence in the government all day. Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic and most members of the Cabinet, including Abazovich, did not appear at the meeting.Russia banned the entry of the State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Montenegro The voting was open, the deputies were polled one at a time and they were responsible for or against expressing no confidence in the government. voted for no confidence in the 42nd government of Montenegro,” stated the chairman of the Legislative Assembly, Aleksa Becic. Until that time, the current Cabinet will remain in a technical mandate to prepare a declaration of will. The head of the parliamentary committee on security and defense, Milan Knezevic, during the discussion indicated that members of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) of President Milo Djukanovic, who ruled Montenegro for 30 years, support the resignation of the Cabinet in order to enter the new parliamentary majority. In turn, the head of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Dragina Vuksanovic-Stankovic, accused the Cabinet of Ministers of Krivokapic of betraying the national interests of Montenegro for the sake of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian nationalism, of economic and infrastructural flaws and slowing down European integration.
Useless «dependent countries» were named in the USADeputy Chairman of the «Democrats» Momo Koprivica recalled Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel «The Teenager», accusing the initiators of the vote of envy of other people's political successes and effective steps. He also recalled rumors spreading in Montenegro about a bribe of 21 million euros for the collapse of the government. The Chairman of the Assembly and the leader of the Democrats movement, Aleksa Becic, earlier called Abazovich's initiative on a vote of no confidence «a political betrayal of the people.» Montenegro's Minister of Economic Development, Yakov Milatovic, said on Friday that the country needed early parliamentary elections simultaneously with municipal ones. Among the merits of the outgoing government, he named the accumulation of 400 million euros in the treasury, two years without external state loans, annual economic growth of 14%, an increase in the minimum wage from 222 to 450 euros, and an average of 500 to 700 euros, an increase in tourism revenue from 150 to 715 million and the minimum pension from 147 to 200 euros. In Podgorica, Niksic, Budva and other cities of Montenegro, spontaneous protests took place these days in «protection of the will of the voters on August 30, 2020» and against the resignation of the government, which was created after the elections in the fall of 2020 by political opponents of DPS Djukanovic.
