By Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM observer
Good morning. You’re reading a daily contextual review of the news that marked the previous day.
The Cetinje’s Gambit
After the Prime Minister, Dritan Abazovic and Aleksa Becic now go all-in when it comes to the enthronement of the Serbian Metropolitan in Montenegro, which is to be organized in Cetinje. Abazovic even claimed that “Montenegro got a metropolitan”, and Becic called for “everyone to welcome the metropolitan” in Cetinje. As protests were announced after the announcement that they wouldn’t give up on Cetinje as the place of enthronement, many understood Becic’s invitation as an invitation to a counter-rally. So at this moment we have calls for the entire Montenegro to gather in Cetinje on that day by the highest state officials. Why are government officials doing this? What are they willing to risk that day? Do they want to show the “strength of the state”, because now they’re in power?
Although Goran Danilovic ran to accuse the DPS of sparkling tensions, I claim that people no longer want to listen to the DPS or other parties and they’re organizing protests on their own. Although individuals from the parties are willing to help and participate in the protests, none of the parliamentary opposition parties is claiming responsibility for the rally in Cetinje, and citizens, as far as I can see on social media, are calling for self-organization. It’s the case with most of the protests organized so far in Montenegro. It would be much better, more serious and more effective for parliamentary political actors to take a direct part in the protests in order to avoid incidents and provide peaceful, dignified and non-violent resistance. Gandhi thus liberated India, I guess we too can prevent one enthronement which we consider a political act.
Fundamental agreement
We haven’t seen the text of the fundamental agreement yet and all the secrecy about that process brings additional mistrust, as the citizens rightly suspect that they will be tricked on the very day of the enthronement in Cetinje. Dritan Abazovic again excelled in this topic, so he said that “everything that was contrary to the interests of Montenegro” was removed from the contract. Therefore, he admitted what some of us have already known – that the SPC cheriches intentions in defiance of the interests of Montenegro. Abazovic just nonchalantly notes it.
The Prime Minister announced that the agreement was amended and passed the ball to Patriarch Porfirije, who noted that the agreement was now being checked in the Holy Synod.
Conference of MANS and Govt
What’s happening now is that it’s very difficult to discern the role of the civil sector. The press conferences of the National Council for the Fight against Corruption are being streamed on the pages of a non-governmental organization, but let’s not be formalists – if that works, we’re fine with it. Vanja Calovic Markovic said yesterday she would leave if she figures out that there’s no political will to solve certain things. And I believe she’ll do it. During the conference, one could see that Abazovic wasn’t comfortable. Because a year has passed since the election and they found out last week that there were no records on the turnover of goods in the Port of Bar. What I assume happened was that Calovic “pissed off”, that she urged them to visit the port of Bar and discovered many things there. The state and the fight against corruption cannot be waged from the beach by being a playboy, while the parliamentary crisis is underway. If you are infantile or have other priorities in life, it’s better to leave and let others do the work.
Prosecutorial Council
Altercations over the Prosecutorial Council, TS, continue. URA makes pressure to elect members of it ASAP, the Democrats say those are efforts to form a new party-backed prosecution. What we see is happening is that a part of the non-governmental sector now in URA is trying to seize power in the justice system through Ana Novakovic Djurovic. And I say it again, just like in the case of MANS – if we’ll get a result, it’s totally okay. I’m just afraid that we’ll only witness the fight against the ex-government, while the new members of the government will continue to freely misuse their positions until next elections, when the new government, by using their methods of political impact, would set up their own prosecution and so on. All at the expense of citizens.
Banning content that denies Srebrenica genocide
One great news in a sea of gloom. Radio Free Europe reports that the social networks Twitter and YouTube will ban all content denying the genocide in Srebrenica. Owners of Twitter, i.e. Google which runs YouTube announced this yesterday. The Genocide Research Institute of Canada (IGK) recently sent a request to technology giants Twitter and YouTube to ban the denial of the Srebrenica genocide on its platforms. The Director of the Canadian Institute, Emir Ramic, told Radio Free Europe that IGK keeps records of content on social media and that most posts insulting Srebrenica victims come from Serbia, as well as from Russia, France and other countries.
That’s all for today. Have a nice day.
