Asanović: We won't be a part of the government in Podgorica, Mujović may secure a majority with DPS
The President of the Municipality of Zeta and an official of the Democratic People’s Party (DPP), Mihailo Asanović, stated during today’s blockade by the residents of Botun in Donja Gorica that the party will no longer be part of the governing coalition in Podgorica.
- There will be sessions of the local parliament, so you will see whether DPP councillors will attend them. Then we will see how Saša Mujović, a man who was once a member of the DPS, and his Chief of Cabinet, who runs everything, Vesna Brajović, a former State Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, will secure a majority. Perhaps they will find it in their former party - DPS. I wish them good luck, we will not take part in the government - Asanović said.
Asanović added that the residents of Botun have continued peaceful blockades due to the construction works on the wastewater treatment plant in their neighbourhood.
- Before the New Year, when many people took to the streets and when there was a real risk of bloodshed, the Police Directorate and some constituents of the government called on us and the residents of Botun to suspend the protests, promising that they would withdraw the police and impose a moratorium on construction. That suited them at the time - Asanović said.
He dismissed as untrue claims that the protests are politicised and that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has any influence over them.
- When the residents of Botun began protesting 21 years ago, Vučić was not even in power in Podgorica, and the DPP did not exist at that time, as it was formed in 2014. So those stories immediately fall apart - Asanović stressed.
Waste disposal in Tuzi banned
According to him, the Capital City and the Government of Montenegro are still exerting pressure on the Municipality of Zeta. He claims that the Capital City has today banned them from disposing of waste in Tuzi.
- As if it weren’t enough that there has been no demarcation for three years and that Zeta has been completely excluded from the capital budget… Mujović and the director of the landfill informed us today that the Municipality of Zeta, which regularly pays 20.000 euros every month for waste disposal, can no longer do so in Tuzi. I immediately called the President of the Municipality of Bar, and we will be forced, starting tomorrow, to transport waste to Bar and pay for it, just as Podgorica does - Asanović concluded.