You are reading a daily contextual review of the news that marked the previous weekend.
By Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM observer
The Prime Minister said in Parliament last week that anyone who would opt for a minority government is an accomplice of the former regime. The question is whether he counts Abazovic in, who, as we can hear, is increasingly open to this option.
In addition, Abazovic gives statements that clearly distance him from Krivokapic. “The security sector is not the only point of disagreement with the Prime Minister”, he said over the weekend.
Vijesti, which is perceived as close to URA, also made it clear on the front-page last week that it also sees it as one of the options.
This story about reshuffle has become boring, or it has “landed”, as the Deputy Prime Minister says, while its members receive €4,600 for being part of boards of directors, but that is a different story. Most of the opposition is convinced of the rapid collapse of this government, and the NGO sector is talking about it, but it still seems to me that it will last longer. Why? Because no one is raising tensions anymore. Parliament is not functioning, and no one cares, Medojevic is still chasing aliens and reptiles, and URA is talking about a consistent and green policy in the Mediteran Hotel.
Divergence between Democrats and Christian Democrats?
Although the Serbian bloc seemed monolithic and strong after the Cetinje even and the enthronement, the announcement of the formation of the Christian Democratic Party provoked the first reaction of the Democrats. To Spajic’s transfer of responsibility for voting in favour of the “Marshall Plan”, Bogdanovic from the Democrats responded directly: “Now we see that some personal and certainly party campaigns are being conducted, but we will not allow anyone to play with the common sense of the members of the parliamentary majority, because what we asked for then is now being offered by the Government. This does not surprise us, but we will certainly not keep silent about the attempts to humiliate the parliamentary majority“.
Minister Spajic, one cannot enter by sliding into someone’s electorate and expect cooperation. Politics is a rough game.
PM in Belgrade (finally)
The Prime Minister is to be finally received in Belgrade. Ivica Dacic, one of our Prime Minister’s hosts, welcomed him with demands, “not to discriminate against the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbs in Montenegro”, and for “Serbs to prepare well for the census”. The Prime Minister will have dinner with the President of Serbia, and he said that he would not sign the Fundamental Agreement, because it is now pending at the Synod of the Church of Serbia.
Serbian government official – PM’s security adviser
In the autumn transition period, Vojo Lakovic, until recently an official of the Government of Serbia, became the Prime Minister’s security adviser. Before that, according to some media, he was at the screening with the Minister of Defense, Olivera Injac. We cannot know whether this will be discussed at today’s session of the Security Committee, because the secrecy of those sessions has become routine.
Society clericalization
The Prime Minister in the church would be completely normal news, if the influence of the church on politics was not as great as it is, and if the rules of conduct that we all adhere to for the sake of public health would also apply to events in churches. Apart from the fact that the picture became a hit on the Internet due to the Prime Minister’s body position, we had better ask ourselves why he and the ministers did not wear masks.
It would be normal news if the newly enthroned Serbian Metropolitan Joanikije II did not teach them the lessons about what they should do and that it should not even occur to them to betray the “will of the people”.
At the same time, the Minister of Health takes over the competencies of the church and canonizes and proclaims saints at will.
At the same time, in schools, our children sing nationalist songs at official school events.
That’s it for today. We wish you a pleasant rest of the day.
