You’re reading a daily contextual review of the news that marked the previous day.
By Ljubomir Filipović, CdM observer
Public Hearing – The Last Supper
This is how a renowned lawyer, Mr Nikola Belada, described a “public” hearing over the “Dritan’s law”. Yesterday’s public hearing was Mr Abazović’s and his team’s fiasco, thus proving disorganization, charlatanry and irresponsibility. Court “civic” activists (excluding Mr Zoran Vukčević who gave a meaningful criticism) showed up, while MANS, CEMI and HRA, as well as associations of lawyers and prosecutors, for example, didn’t come. Even though Mr Abazović announced attendance of Quinta ambassadors, no one showed up.
One must be pretty arrogant to send an invitation for such an important topic on Friday in late afternoon. Mr Abazović is obviously determined to push his intention through, so some of the guests assisted him, encouraging him to disobey the VC recommendations, noting that he should pursue in his intention to adopt the law in Montenegro, not in “Strasbourg and Brussels”.
On highway and debt in Paris
While works on the highway are about to finalize, Minister Radulović continues where Mr Abazović left off. After the Washington Post wrote about the Montenegrin debt, the Minister is now in Paris where’s he expected, among other things, to ask for help in repaying the Chinese highway loan. Deputy Managing Editor, Aleksandra Obradović, wrote an excellent analysis over this matter.
Dritan blindly supports the agreement with SPC
Mr Abazović again wants to convince us that everything’s okay while he’s backing decisions of the nationalist part of his coalition for the hundredth time. It happened with the agreement with the SPC, which he commented on after the public hearing over prosecutorial laws. The narrative that accompanies the signing of the agreement and that justifies it equates the Serbian church with Orthodoxy in Montenegro, and puts in the background and discriminates against the Montenegrin Orthodox Church, CPC, and possibly other Orthodox communities in Montenegro.
In an interview for Pobjeda daily, Zlatko Vujović says that bowing to pressures from the Belgrade Patriarchate and other bad decisions may bring the government down.
Vučić about Đukanović and Montenegro
The long-awaited and announced interview of Mr Aleksandar Vučić to Mr Senad Hadžifejzović also touched on Montenegro. You can read here how Vučić talked about Đukanović’s cave nationalism and how he now thinks that Serbs in Montenegro have their own government.
Rally against appointment of Haris as the head of local police
After the government elected Mr Haris Đurđević, supporters of the new government went on the streets of Pljevlja to protest against his appointment. Having in mind their messages and symbols they were displaying, a part of the people who gathered yesterday had problems with the name of Mr Đurđević. Considering traumatic events from Pljevlja in the 1990s and the war crime in Bukovica, as well as attacks on the mosque following political changes, we should pay attention to all this.
Condemnations of Sekulović from Germany
The community of Montenegrin associations in Germany “eMDe Alliance” voiced dismay over Minister Sergej Sekulović’s underestimate of the diaspora in last week’s show on Vijesti TV.
Interrogation of Abazović in SDT
The DPM was criticized for many times for announcing interrogations in the capacity of a citizen on Twitter as an arrest and gloating over it. Users of social media made a joke yesterday reflecting on his inconsistency and frivolity after he was invited by prosecution bodies to share his information about Mr Veselin Veljović’s involvement in organizing patriotic protests.
Miscellaneous
A large number of hospitality bosses and hotel owners addressed the NGO ‘Association of Hospitality Bosses of Montenegro’ requiring assistance after they were threatened with power cuts, this NGO states.
Minister Stijović declared as a nationalist. We can only guess why he’s wearing hoodies of the Serbian right-wing organizations that he’s meeting with.
Take a look at the candidates for the RTCG Council.
That’s all for today. Have a nice day.
