“A significant number of ministers in the Government of Montenegro still lack the experience to call them experts because to become an expert one needs not only education, but also work experience”, says the president of the CIVIS Citizens’ Association Srdjan Pavicevic in an interview for Pobjeda. The idea of the expert government, as he states, is an authentic idea of CIVIS, which was first accepted by the Black on White coalition and later by the winning coalition. However, Pavicevic says that everything that happened later and how the idea was implemented disappointed him quite a bit. This Black on White MP also says that the progress in the negotiations of the ruling majority can be resolved through a direct, decent and responsible dialogue.
“We all see a great disharmony between the executive branch of the Government and part of the DF legislative power. I think their deep misunderstanding stems from wrong and unconventional expectations. Namely, both subjects ‘appropriated’ the election results, not acknowledging the other’s adequate and true merits. In politics, as in life after all, half-baked, unfinished and unprincipled agreements come back like a boomerang and exactly the strength and power of things that you failed to agree overwhelm you… Honest and direct conversations are the only way out of such situations. We will see if the mentioned subjects will have the strength for something like that”, Pavicevic explains.
“The government of experts is an authentic idea of CIVIS, which the Black on White coalition accepted as a coalition platform, together with the concept of meritocracy. In the post-election leadership negotiations, the idea was accepted by the entire winning group. However, what happened later and how, unfortunately, that idea was implemented, quite disappointed me! The government of experts had to be the platform of all of us, both the prime minister-designate and the winning coalition”, Pavicevic points out.
When referring to the current epidemiological situation in Montenegro, he says that it “is becoming more complicated. The whole of Europe expects an increase in the number of infected people as of September, thanks to the new delta strain and the rather large explosion of tourism across Europe in the summer months. I notice that an enviable relaxation has begun to be replaced by an obvious concern, which is normal. Our health care system must be purposefully transformed and reorganized, so that we are ready to receive the shock of a new wave, with corrected mistakes from the previous period. What we insist on and what I, as a doctor, urge is to vaccinate the population in as large a number as possible! We should follow the recommendations of professionals and not try to prove that we know what no one still knows for sure! Let’s make a joint contribution to get out of all this as quickly and painlessly as possible”, Pavicevic concludes.
