Marković: I did not send emissaries to put pressure to vote for me; Živković: We have to clear it up in the parliament

AUTHOR: M.J.
Senior state prosecutor Milorad Marković said that his election took place in the parliament, not in the government, as the leader of the Democratic People's Party (DNP) Milan Knežević said yesterday during the session.
- As for my election, that election happened in one place where it could have happened, and that is in this parliament. I will remind you that 61 deputies voted for me, so there were not 41, but neither were 81 deputies in total. But that does not change my attitude, which implies that there is no personification even in terms of the political party or the deputy who voted for me or did not vote - Marković said in the parliament.
He said that no vote for him would mean an influence on the work of the prosecutor's organization.
Marković said that he has no doubt that the deputies talked to many people who supported him and his election, and he is also sure that many people talked to those who did not support his election and exchanged their opinions with them.
- But that does not change the fact of what I said yesterday and today I want to repeat it categorically, that I did not send emissaries or ambassadors to any of you individually or to any political party to pressure any of you to vote for me , and as I said, it was confirmed with the number of deputies who voted for my election. I also want to emphasize once again that if there was any assumption that the vote for me implied the possibility of any influence on the work of the prosecution organization, that will not happen. If there was an opinion or attitude that there could be political influence on the prosecution organization, then that is not the vision of the work of the prosecution organization that I have - said Marković.
The president of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Danijel Živković asked Marković if he was in the government and attended the meeting where the representatives of the parliamentary majority were and if you agreed there to be elected to the position of top state officials.
- If you were in the Government, were there any promises or stated conditions from the representatives of the parliamentary majority for you to be elected to that position. Although it is true, as you say, that you were not elected only by the votes of the parliamentary majority, but that meeting was, obviously, and we warned about that in the previous period. No one had a discussion with us, even from the Democratic Party of Socialists. If there were no consultations with part of the opposition, whether there were consultations with the other part of the opposition on this topic, whether there were emissaries or those who sent messages, I don't know and I don't get into it and I don't engage in gossip and pub stories. Yesterday, a very important piece of information was presented, and we must clear it up today in the Parliament of Montenegro if we think we can continue to conduct a constructive dialogue on the work of the prosecutor's organization. It is very important to resolve this dilemma - Živković pointed out.
The MP of the Europe Now Movement, Darko Dragović, denied that the Europe Now Movement was colluding with the election of Marković.
- It is absolutely false that it was the order of the president of the PES movement, the current president Vlade Spajić, or anyone else that the club of deputies of the PES Movement decided to support Marković for the election of the supreme state prosecutor for the sake of anyone's interests other than the interests of Montenegro and the struggle against organized crime and corruption and other social individualities - said Dragović.