Montenegro is our holy place, keep your hands off it, it was said last night from the tribune of the Liberal Party.
“Our religion is Montenegro. We are fighting for the renewal of our homeland, for its protection and the promotion of its rights”, Mr Andrija Popović said, President of the LP.
Mr Popović says that Montenegro the past fifty days have been a temptation in Montenegro.
“I firmly believe we are all going to contribute to help Montenegro go through this and that we won’t allow it the history of 1918 and 1989 to repeat itself”, Mr Popović said.
He says that the Serbian Orthodox Church and its political satellites has two major goals.
“The first goal is taking over power at parliamentary elections because they believe they can achieve what they have been advocating for – annulment of Kosovo, NATO membership and withdrawal of the Law on Freedom of Religion”, Mr Popović said.
The other major goal is increasing the number of Serbs in Montenegro on census next year.
President of the LP Board, Mr Vido Drašković, says that Montenegro has had a long way.
“Interests of the powerful ones have been in conflict in this region. Montenegro was always the target of those who wanted to succumb it to their own interests. But it has been resisting successfully while preserving freedom and will, making history with the blood of its sons”, Mr Drašković points out.
According to Mr Slobodan Čukić, a journalist, the Law on Freedom of Religion is the trigger for the beginning of the ideological “Serbianization” of Montenegro.
“That assimilation is carried out through continuous and aggressive campaign, by open political pressure from the top or in disguise, through church infrastructure”, Mr Čukić says.
Vice-president of the Liberal Party, Mrs Dubravka Vujičić, said that Liberals had been stating from the very beginning that the Law was a reform law and that it would regulate legal status of religious communities in Montenegro.
“Most fervent opponents are those who haven’t even read the text of the law. The law stipulates that the Serbian Orthodox Church shall be registered in Podgorica just like it is registered in Belgrade and that it should perform its tasks in accordance with the law”, Mr Vujičić says.
Longtime social and political worker, representative of anti-fascists from Cetinje, Mr Srefan Radunović, points out that great Serbian nationalism is a great danger for Montenegro.
