Some City Commission members, assumed to be from the defeated side, maintained that the minutes contained irregularities.
Lipka told the press he had to exert his special powers to settle the problem so that the preliminary official results could be released by 9 am today.
The release of the final results will depend on the number of complaints. The Referendum Commission has not received any to date and they may be submitted within three days of the release of preliminary results. The final results have to be released within 15 days of the referendum.
At the referendum held on Sunday, 55.50 per cent of citizens voted for an independent and sovereign Montenegro, while 44.50 per cent voted for the survival of the state union with Serbia, according to official but still preliminary results which the Referendum Commission released today shortly prior to the expiry of the legal deadline.
The turnout was 86.49 per cent, with 230,711 citizens voting for independent Montenegro and 184,954 voting against.
The winners, the so-called sovereignists, managed to surpass the unusually high 55 per cent threshold which the European Union set for the referendum to be successful.