President of Montenegro, Mr Milo Đukanović, has dropped the allegations that the new Government of Montenegro is “the first democratic government” and added that their aim is to “underpin the intention to carry out revanchism against the previous government”.
“Those who are celebrating the liberation today wish that Montenegro returns to the state of slavery, state and national impersonality, as it lived from 1918 to 1941,” President Đukanović told in an interview with Beta news agency.
The assessment that the new government is the first democratic government could be heard from the Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Đorđe Radulović, during the discussion in the parliament.
“He’s a young man and can be forgiven for such an oversight. Today, there are many people in the Montenegrin parliament who were members of previous governments or an administration that served the work of previous governments after the introduction of a multi-party system. It’s about a completely undisputed, unfounded assessment and an assessment that should underpin the intention to enter into some kind of revenge against the previous government and the apparatus that served that government with a fabricated claim that we had the first democratic elections, or, as we could hear from the prime minister, that we’re about to have them when this government organizes them.”
Asked to say how he sees cohabitation to power and whether he knows some of the new ministers, Mr Đukanović has said he barely knows some of them, but there will be opportunities to meet them during cohabitation.
“I believe cohabitation will look like the change of power after 30 August.”
According to him, cohabitation includes political differences in the functioning of a government.
Statement of Minister Bratić improper
When asked about the new minister of the unified Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, Professor Vesna Bratic, who was sharply criticized by part of the public for her statements that she was a “Chetnik woman” and that the well-known Croatian journalist and writer, Mr Boris Dežulović, was an “Ustasha garbage”, but who received honorary citizenship of Montenegro, Mr Đukanović said that he was not the prime minister at the time, but was sure that she received citizenship in line with the law.
He said that the statement of Minister Bratić telling that she was “a Chetnik woman” was completely improper, especially “from the aspect of treacherous ideology”.
“It’s unpleasant to talk about qualifications concerning Mr Dežulović. In my opinion, she could hardly hold a position in any higher education institution, let alone in the government.”
