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Ten to Eight – Who is more a Serb?

Ten to Eight – Who is more a Serb?

 

You are reading a daily contextual review of the news that marked the previous day.

 

By Ljubomir Filipović, CdM observer

 

This is the essence and the starting point of every political debate between the Democrats and PM Zdravko Krivokapic on the one hand, and the DF, SNP and Miodrag Lekic on the other. Yesterday, the two sides exchanged one dozen poison darts on the subject. While the DF attacks the Democrats in a tabloid way for betraying a Kosovo bequest by donating vaccines to the Kosovo Security Force, the Democrats are proposing that Njegos’ birthday be declared a national holiday. When the DF, Dodik and the Serbian authorities from Belgrade simultaneously attack the Democrats, the Democrats respond with long reports that can be retold with a question they ask Serbian leaders – “and what did you do for the Serbian people.” And so it goes in an infinite circle. They feed each other by creating an inexhaustible perpetuum mobile that will last until the election campaign or reconciliation at a rich table with Serbian Metropolitan Joanikije.

They are still fighting and pointing fingers at each other, accusing each other of cooperating with the DPS. The DF initially had the momentum because they fired Leposavic with the help of the DPS, and now the boycott has intensified the Prime Minister and the Democrats, so they attack the DF that it wants to provoke elections with the DPS. The DF does not deny that, and says: there will be either a new prime minister or elections that the transitional government will lead to. Jokovic now believes in dialogue, and Miodrag Lekic is criticizing the Prime Minister for criticizing Serbia. The former minister and ambassador appears to have returned to his 1999 positions.

URA stands completely to the side, and pretends to be dead, waiting for the bosses to sort everything out among themselves.

While for them (and for us) such days pass in this upheaval, two hundred days of Government work have passed. Its results are very modest, almost non-existent. Except when it comes to employments in state bodies. My colleague Miras Dusevic did an analysis of what was done, which you can read here.

European perspective

The Prime Minister participated in the Intergovernmental Conference on Montenegro’s Accession to the European Union in Luxembourg. We have long ago stated that this Government is without a vision, and that it does not have the will or knowledge to seriously dedicate itself to EU integration. What is the view of the parliamentary opposition, and what it most resents the Government for, is best to read in the text written by Miodrag Radovic, the head of the President of Montenegro’s cabinet.

Administration cleanup

I have been saying for a long time that there is a way for even this Government to stop causing divisions in society. And I must admit that a mechanism of cleansing from extreme cadres like Leposavic, Vukovic, Milonjic and the like has been started. Now, Leposavic’s proteges are being dismissed from managerial positions. However, there remains a large number of people who, on a daily basis, provoke a large part of the Montenegrin public in various ways, with statements, actions and policies. Vesna Bratic, Stijovic, University chancellor Bozovic, DF staff at the head of the National Parks, Montenegro’s power supplier (EPCG), challenge a part of Montenegrins to see the way out in extreme behavior.

Thanks to last year’s processions and examples that violence like the one in front of the temple against feminists is not punished, many people think that just such behavior is the solution.

Nobody has anything against Serbs being part of the Government and at the head of it, but the head of the Government cannot be the one who insults and humiliates any group in society on a daily basis. In addition, it openly implements the agenda of the collapse of Montenegrin institutions. Milan Knezevic, for example, the head of the parliamentary defense and security committee talks on a TV in Serbia about Serbia and its national team as his own.

These days, a number of Montenegrins, see in Prkacin and Bujanac from Croatia, perhaps not knowing who they are, the best resistance to the Chetniks with which we are bombed every day. We cannot defend ourselves from the Chetniks with the Ustashas, ​​let that be clear to us. If these two men appear in Cetinje, it will be the success of Greater Serbia politics and all those who promote the story of two extremisms. You can’t be an anti-fascist and stand side by side with people like this at the same time.

Dialogue between Government and opposition

Without dialogue between the Government and the opposition, there is no way out of the institutional crisis, and it is good that a meeting is scheduled for 6 July to see what we will do with the judiciary. I can see that the SDP was the first to accept the Speaker of Parliament’s invitation, and that is not bad.

However, while some are trying to create a dialogue, the Deputy Prime Minister, with his rhetoric, arouses passions in the judiciary itself, and then creates resistance among the opposition. Yesterday, he quarreled with the prosecutors again, to which the Prosecutorial Council replied.

That’s it for today. See you tomorrow at the same time and in the same place.

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