Working group of parliamentary dialogue of the Parliament of Montenegro, which was formed with the aim of preparing free elections, at the beginning of 2016, heard a large number of representatives of the institutions of the Government of Montenegro, who were suspected in the previous election cycles of having abused state resources for political purposes. Director of the Employment Agency of Montenegro (ZZZCG), Vukica Jelic, was also heard at one of the sessions. On that occasion, she openly stated that she was obliged to implement her party’s policy in the field of employment.
Vukica Jelic was appointed director of the ZZZCG in March 2012 and succeeded her husband, Zoran Jelic, a member of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS). It was Zoran Jelic who spoke before the party’s political bodies on party employment according to the formula “one employed four voices”, which was revealed during the famous “Tape Recording” affair.
In the middle of January 2016, at the session of the Working Group of Parliamentary Dialogue, ZZZCG director Vukica Jelic responded to MP’s questions with regard to the “Tape Recording” affair. Jelic then said that MPs were looking back to something that had happened in 2012 (when parliamentary snap elections were held) and that “the context in which all of that was happening should be known.”
Jelic told MPs that she was not a politician per se, but she understood that DPS had won the elections based on an electoral program, due to which representatives of the legislative and executive authorities were obliged to implement the party program. “My task is to implement the program that the DPS promised to the citizens regarding employment,” Jelic said.
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