Good morning! You’re reading a daily contextual review of the news that marked the previous day.
By Ljubomir Filipović, CdM observer
Ignoring the past
Members of the new government have started to tell that the past should be left behind and we should turn to the future. They note that the past spark divisions, that Montenegro discusses 1945 and 1918 in 2021, while the civilized nations go ahead. Day by day we can see the aim and purpose of producing such a narrative and how hypocritical they are. While they tolerate comments and interpretation of the history of their supporters which deny Montenegrin independence, every pro-Montenegrin position is treated as an act of sparking divisions.
So, the trigger for URA, as a carrier of this government, and activists and journalists close to them to start telling these stories, has always been the insistence of the state-building political bloc that all political factors should clearly define their historical topics, which, like other current topics, are important and completely meaningful and rational. If we had defined ourselves earlier, we would not have been surprised and embarrassed when MP and Dr Vladimir Dobričanin said on the public broadcaster that Chetniks were an anti-fascist movement. There’s a kind of consensus over this issue in the society and his statements were condemned by many addresses from both sides. However, there’s no consensus over 1918, and the anniversary of King Nikola’s death showed it best. While the relevant ministry headed by Minister Bratić clumsily marked this date, the Civic URA Movement wrote a statement, and I honestly don’t know what they wanted to say. Their statement is as hypocritical as the Twitter comment of Serbian Prince Filip Karađorđević on the same topic. With its statement, URA seemed to justify the unification in 1918 as a reaction to the authoritarian rule of King Nikola, and it was as if it justified itself for being part of such a government. The subconscious seems to erupt on its own.
Dismissals in the police
There was an announcement yesterday that certain positions in the police would be erased from the job scheme, and it happened by the end of the day. In this way, the newly-appointed head of the police got rid of the unwanted co-workers, like Mr Zoran Lazović, who has been unpopular with the new government and marked as a man maintaining close ties with the former government. His dismissal was a condition for the survival of the coalition.
Pandemic and health system
Following the Prime Minister’s visit to the church where no one adhered to the coronavirus rules, Minister Borovinić, who used to attend similar events herself, told she was going to warn him.
Him and other members of the government. She probably meant on the State Secretary, Rade Milošević, for whom restaurants in Podgorica are being opened despite the ban. Instead of doing something with the situation in the health system, the Minister deals with staff planning in the medical chamber and the dismissal of Mr Aleksandar Mugoša. Head of the Health Insurance Fund who’s soon to resign, Mr Sead Čirgić, was speaking about it on the public broadcaster.
Abazović and Oxford
Deputy Prime Minister Abazović was a speaker at the conference in Belgrade, organized by the Center for Bioethical Studies in partnership with the Center for Humanities of the University of Oxford. The announcement for this conference was pretentiously presented by the Deputy Prime Minister on his and the government’s profile, as if he were giving a lecture at that university. He did the same this fall when he presented an interview with Professor Kenneth Morrison as a lecture at the London School of Economics. Mr Abazović was invited to the conference by the president of the Belgrade organization, Mr Vojin Rakić, who is politically engaged in Serbia, who was openly supporting Mr Abazović on Twitter, and who called the political changes in our country “the liberation of Montenegro”. Mr Rakic has been warned several times by UNESCO not to falsely present himself as an official of that organization. For these reasons, I directly and publicly warned Mr Abazović on Twitter to pay attention not to repeat the same story like it was with Mr Simijanović.
Incident in Nikšić
The Democrats announced last night that their activist from Nikšić was attacked by people close to the DPS who gathered and moved through Nikćić yesterday. After that, a footage was posted, showing that Democrat activists insulted and then threw stones at people passing by their property. They were insulting each other, but there was no physical attack.
That’s all for today. Have a nice day.
