Just when you think you've heard everything, the pre-democratic and over-enlightened Minister of Justice, Zoran Pažin, speaks. One would think that, with his long experience in the court in Strasbourg, which he is proud of, he would stand up for a heated legal state, which watches day and night over law, justice and human rights. But no, the minister asked in the parliament this week to stop the affairs, so that the prosecutors are not stressed and unnecessarily pressured to investigate potential corruption and crime at the highest level.
"Criminal proceedings are not initiated based on affairs. The constantly produced affair is bad as well as the pressure on the judicial authorities. We have a fashion where persons who are suspected are now given space to argue with the judicial authorities while at the same time they are unavailable to them. They advertise from distant addresses and all of them are victims of the regime in Montenegro," said the icy-faced, pre-European and pre-correct Pažin. And what would the man answer him. Okay, Minister, sorry, we won't be interviewing any more insiders, so you and the prosecutors don't get axed. Yes, once again Brussels, in the last Report, warns us that there are no concrete results in the area of crime and corruption, but it can be that way. There are no affairs, there is nothing to investigate, and then there is no crime and corruption. The statistics are impeccable, and prosecutors continue to lightly prosecute critics of the regime based on nothing. Divota.
Prime Minister Duško Marković also excelled in the parliament this week in terms of democracy and the rule of law. To the question of MP Miodrag Lekić about whether for Marković - "the scandalous act of corruption, in which the banker of the regime illegally gives money to your official, the mayor of Podgorica, for the electoral needs of your party, is a normal phenomenon that should pass without consequences for the top of the government". Marković assessed that Lekić was invoking "some of the harshest courts in Montenegro" in this way. So yes, no, the courts should not be harsh towards DPS officials. Instead of stroking their hair, they have an educational effect. Tip: don't take envelopes anymore and use black funds to finance elections. We won't, judge. It's not nice - added the judge with a frown, but mildly. All right, judge, it's not. Don't even steal elections, nothing of party recruitment, misuse of resources, money from the underground, and those things. And don't let them film you, brother, so that Katnić and Stanković put themselves in the unpleasant situation of having to conduct investigations against your interns and coffee cooks. We won't, comrade judge.
And Đukanović was in a good mood this Sunday, which we are not used to. He received Aiva Orav in his office, where he received the new EC Report. He hasn't read it yet, but he promised that he would. Regardless, he expressed pleasure and spoke sweetly. He assessed that he will study the recommendations of the EC very seriously, and said that he will as before treat them very responsibly.
Yes, he sounded nice, kind of soft and tame, since we are used to him deretizing, but he missed the word that reveals the famous Leader. Pre-European oriented president, it would not be good to follow the recommendations of the EC as before. Here, for example, from Brussels, for the umpteenth time, they are warning that there is no progress in solving cases of attacks on journalists. Fifteen years have passed since the murder of Dan Duško Jovanović, editor-in-chief, and we still don't know who the perpetrators of this crime are. And the case of the attack on Vijesti journalist Olivera Lakić hits the spot. Like many others. Đukanović is already on his way to improving that statistic today. As soon as he received the report, he indicated the direction of elucidating the case of Olivera Lakić. "An irresponsible individual" is to blame, he explained. The fact that he draws targets for the media where the attacked journalists work whenever he arrives is irrelevant. Irresponsible state presidents are a protected species here anyway.
There are other recommendations that you wouldn't really follow as before relate, if we are going to Europe from the right. Type one - Brussels: we are concerned about the political pressure on RTCG. The government does not care. Or, a traditional remark about the independence of the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption. Sreten Radonjić from the position of director, whatever is written in the report, does not budge. And so on. And so the decades passed. And they never. And we read another report on what we know. That there are no changes with them.
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