Good morning! They deceived us again with internal frictions, and in the end, they carried out everything they intended. The budget was adopted, as well as a set of populist laws and decisions. Salaries to amount to €450 as of Saturday. The Prosecutorial Council was also elected, thus paving the way for the removal of prosecutors. As they “triumph” and celebrate, problems pile up: the pandemic breaks the limits, and fascist texts win state awards…
Ruling majority’s triumph
“We are ending this year triumphantly, and for that reason I welcome the vote of the new Prosecutorial Council and express my gratitude to Parliament, the parliamentary majority and all well-meaning MPs, for the high political responsibility they have shown. For a healthy Montenegro”, Krivokapic posted on Twitter. Indeed, Krivokapic should be congratulated – with 1+4 MPs of support in Parliament out of 81 in total – he manages to push through everything that he and his ministers imagined.
Interpellations of ministers, which do not oblige anyone to dismiss them, threats and insults from the DF, SNP and others were all in vain. In the end, Memorandum and initiatives for non-vote of confidence we in vain. Despite all the ridicule and insults, Zdravko managed to dictate this tweet to the former speaker of Vijesti, Ananije Jovanovic.
The budget has been adopted, Europe Now passed. By summer or autumn, and a possible revised budget, everyone is settled, and my humble opinion is that there will be no minority government in January. Was the Memorandum a means of disciplining the Front and the Democrats? And are we, who are against this government, unknowingly participating in the consolidation of the ruling majority forces?
The Prime Minister says that they triumphed, and Aleksa Becic says that he is happy that his party’s initiative to adopt the Prosecutorial Council has passed. Now the way is open to remove Milivoje Katnic and start making arrests in accordance with the new political agenda.
So, the Prosecutorial Council was passed as well as the labor law, which enables the increase of the minimum wage to €450; mothers of three or more children and pensioners, and employees in the public sector have been settled. There will be money for everyone. Does anyone in that government wonder where that money comes from? Breakfast is served, and no one thinks about lunch.
They say “the money comes from the fact that stealing has stopped”. I can see in Budva that they are stealing more than ever, and I believe that it is the same in other cities. After all, when they say that the DPS stole everything and that this is a destroyed country, where does the money come from for such rich social benefits as if we were Norway? We did not find oil, says the Ministry of Capital Investments. We are closing old plants, we do not have new ones. So, we have not created new value and the money will have to be borrowed. Isn’t that the path to the Greek scenario?
The census awaits us next year, so we don’t have to worry about raising the atmosphere in the elections and deepening the gap where this government will preserve the majority. Let’s expect the topics of the demolition of the Mausoleum at Lovcen, the introduction of religious education, changes in the law on citizenship. We should expect this at a certain time before the summer when the revised budget will have to be adopted, and when we will experience another political crisis. Even then, URA will protect Montenegro in principle. We don’t have to worry about that.
Feeding an army of trolls
Milojko Spajic says that he knew that the budget would be adopted, and he is doing that on Twitter in direct communication with those who support them. Twitter space is a great platform where you can talk to users live in so-called virtual rooms, just like on the radio. The problem is that for Spajic and Abazovic and other ministers, those rooms are organized by anonymous trolls who spread hatred on social networks in their free time. Many of them got employed in state institutions. Access to dissidents is banned in these pro-government Twitter rooms, so other critics of the government and I are prevented from listening to their conversations. Preventive.
On the other hand, the opposition is also getting organized, but its channels are more open to different opinions. A few nights ago, Mileta Radovanic from URA was a guest on one such opposition space. The DPS organized a space with Pedja Boskovic, and tonight the guest of the Montenegrin space is Draginja Vuksanovic Stankovic.
New measures
Although after the surge and the record of 1,500 infected people in one day, we expected stricter measures and the closure of all facilities, but that did not happen. Café bars and restaurants will be open until 1am, because by then the Omicron will be closed. Weddings, celebrations and birthdays are forbidden. As if anyone is getting married now. And even if they decide to do this, they can always camouflage the feasting and present it as the celebration of the fourth day of the New Year.
That’s it for today. See you tomorrow.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst
