Good morning! Rallies organized by the Democrats continued, this time with the discreet support of the DF, fights between them and URA continued, URA is negotiating with everyone except them, and the first speculations about future ministers have begun. The DPS publicly offered cooperation to the Cetinje SDP.
The calm before the storm
Last night, hundreds gathered in front of the Christ Resurrection church in Podgorica in a rally organized by the Democrats. Some of the DF officials discreetly joined them; the van brought the Montenegrin flags as well. What I assumed was that the DF would not withstand public pressure not to support these protests, and as time goes on that support will grow stronger. However, as the DF gets into it, the messages and choreography of the protest will become extreme. In the end, the church will have to provide some kind of support as well, either direct or indirect. The outcome regarding the fundamental agreement will affect the level of their support. Therefore, the fact that not many people come to protests should not encourage those negotiating over power, but alarm them, because in time the movement will grow and culminate when an agreement is reached and when a new government should be voted in parliament.
URA has already started with the negotiations. The CnB delegation met with the PZP, and today they should meet with Mandic, while they also sent an invitation to the Democrats. For now, the public is not much interested in negotiations, perceiving them exclusively as a show which should cover the already agreed details about the new government. It’s already being speculated who the ministers will be and what the government will look like.
While sending an invitation for negotiations to the Democrats, URA does not stop arguing with them. The Democrats don’t miss the opportunity to respond.
Meanwhile, while URA has meetings with members of the PzP, Nebojsa Medojevic is attacking Abazovic because he’s an Albanian, fueling stereotypes about the desire of the Albanians to disintegrate Montenegro. For a year and a half, Abazovic was criticized and insulted by the Montenegrin opposition and the protest movement, for his cooperation with the DF and serving to the Serbian Orthodox Church, but no one had ever insulted him for being an Albanian. If we exclude the shameful incident from Cetinje for which that bastard was punished. But it’s one man in a sea of people from the street. On the other hand, at the protests, they reminded that Dritan is not “ethnically pure”, and now one of the leaders of the opposition is emphasizing that as well. Medojevic is one of the best proofs that the fact that someone used to be a liberal does not necessarily mean anything.
Is the saga in Cetinje about to end?
Blagota Mitric commented on the legal framework related to the formation of the government in Cetinje two months after the elections. According to his interpretation of law, although there is a deadline for formation of the government – February 14 – the deadline can be extended by agreement of interested parties. The law stipulates the obligation to constitute the local assembly by that day and elect the president of the assembly of the Old Royal Capital. The DPS offered concrete concessions to the SPD, including president of the assembly and two deputy mayors, but the SDP still wants the first man of the town to be their representative even though the DPS won the majority in Cetinje.
While they’re discussing the next steps, Prava Crna Gora (eng. Real Montenegro) is withdrawing from the local memorandum aiming to get rid of Bato Carevic, whose “signatories” were URA, Democrats, Prava CG and SNP. The Democrats have already come out of this story and extended their hand to the DF.
Threats and insults to Seki Radoncic
Journalist and publicist, Seki Radoncic, claims that the Special State Prosecutor’s Office has been conducting an investigation against unidentified persons who were following him in mid-summer, linking the entire case to his documentary ‘Conspiracy’, screened ahead of the Niksic local election in March last year, Pobjeda daily reports.
The threats and insults posted below his opinion pieces went viral on social media and don’t seem to stop. Thus, under the text ‘The government is falling, Abazovic wants to leave the Chetnik circle’, which he wrote for the portal radiosarajevo.ba, people posted chauvinistic and nationalist insults against him. Some made threats. The text was shared by the Montenegrin portal ‘Standard’ and published on their Facebook page. Radoncic was, among other things, called a mujahideen, a balija, alluding insultingly to his religious and national affiliation, while the content is full of swear words and threats.
A civic activist, Sasa Zekovic, reacted to these threats, as well as several organizations and associations.
That’s all for today. Until tomorrow.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM observer
