The members of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Presidency include party MPs Nermin Abdić, Nikola Milović, Nikola Rakočević, and Oskar Huter, alongside Šavnik’s leader Jugoslav Jakić, as well as DPS heads from Mojkovac and Bar, Predrag Smolović and Mladen Đuričić. Also included are Alen Balić, the head of the Plav parliament, and Srđan Mašović, the former president of the Andrijevica Municipality.

The new Presidency members by function are DPS leader Danijel Živković, vice presidents Ivan Vuković, Jevto Eraković, Aleksandra Vuković Kuč, and Abaz Dizdarević, along with Andrija Nikolić, head of the parliamentary caucus in the national parliament, and party secretary general Aleksandar Bogdanović, as well as the political director.

Recently, “Vijesti” reported that one of the candidates for the DPS’s new political director is party MP Mihailo Anđušić. This role was not included in the Statute passed at the 2021 Congress, but existed prior.

The new DPS Presidency will not feature previous members, such as former Minister of Justice Zoran Pažin, ex-leader of Bijelo Polje Aleksandar Žurić, former Minister of Defense Predrag Bošković, MP Nikola Janović, Professor Draško Došljak, and ex-Director General of the Directorate for the Promotion and Protection of Minority Rights, Leon Đokaj.

Members of the Presidency were elected by the party’s Main Board during today’s session, having been proposed by the DPS leader. The Main Board was elected at the recent DPS Congress.

Following the election of the Presidency, Živković will propose the General Secretariat’s members – the Secretary General, Political Director, Business Director, and DPS Spokesperson. The Presidency will then appoint the DPS Executive Board members.

Janović was absent from the Congress, criticized the honorary president title

Nikola Janović, who no longer holds a position in the DPS Presidency, was not present at the party Congress on February 16. He had previously voiced concerns about the new title of honorary president of the party, which was awarded to former long-time DPS leader Milo Đukanović.

Janović noted that he is not familiar with the concept of honorary presidents in political parties and that introducing such a title risks allowing for misinterpretation and manipulation by other parties, leading to unnecessary narratives in the public space.

In an interview with “Vijesti,” Živković recounted that Janović himself had claimed that Đukanović had no desire to govern the party behind the scenes, a statement he backed by demonstrating that Đukanović never intervened in his political activities.

During the Congress, Đukanović was named honorary president as a gesture of gratitude for his contributions during the previous political era.

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