"We lost ourselves when, instead of asking how, we asked why. We are finally lost now that, instead of asking where, we ask how"...
I have Pekić's quotes in various places, they are in all my diaries and folders. I guess because I've been reading mostly his books for years. Usually I can easily relate what made me record that particular thought at the time, but this time I can't.
Flipping through the minutes of the first meeting of the Resist movement and the Montenegrin opposition a few days ago, I found this quote on the back of the first page. For what reason at the very beginning, I can't remember.
If I found it on the last page of the minutes, I wouldn't have to guess...
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What a disappointment that was, I mean the meeting not the quote. And I was convinced that I knew everything about our opposition...
Almost four hours of harmonizing the conditions for joint action in the plenum. Only the minimum was agreed upon, the opposition was not capable of more than that. Not even today.
That night in March, it seemed to me that he could not. Four months later, it's obvious that they won't, at least not all of them. That is why, before the beginning of any changes in Montenegro, it would be humane for the majority of opposition leaders and deputies to change themselves.
When they join the office, politicians rarely do it of their own free will. Only their voters can force them to work on themselves, and that only through a mass boycott. But, unfortunately, in recent years they have become more and more like the ones they vote for...
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It didn't cross my mind for months that I had saved the minutes from that meeting. I'm trying to forget the entire rebel spring, among other things, because of my guilty conscience that I didn't do more. It could be that I wasn't even an eyelid, but hindsight doesn't justify, it just clarifies...
Now I see more clearly how strange is the eternal hope of the eternal rebels, even though the eternal majority defeats them every time. Despite this, a glimmer of hope reawakens, not only when there are insufficient conditions for rebellion, but even when it is clear that everything is in vain. Whatever change I think of now, I see that Montenegro is too late for any change. I was not unrealistic even when the protests were the most massive, nor did I - unlike the majority - hope that the regime would be seriously started before winter. But I am sure that at least some of its pillars will be cut down by the summer...
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A few weeks before the summer, there were no more protests. Neither the opposition, nor the citizens, nor the Resist movement survived. Who made a mistake, intentionally or out of ignorance, should be analyzed by someone more knowledgeable and impartial than me.
If the experience from this year's protests is of no use, next year we will have another election where there will be nothing to choose from. All the opposition will come out again, they will again have more MPs than deputies and - again they will not come to power. How do I know? Well, they announced it themselves during the last parliamentary debate before going on vacation.
It turned out that there are too many oppositionists on the public stage who do not make any effort at all to get votes at least for the three or four mandates that lead to power. It is only important that their party be the strongest in the opposition.
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- It's a shame that the protests were ruined by the individual interests of the opposition parties - Professor Božena Jelušić briefly explained their attitude towards the Agreement on the Future.
That's why it seems to me that the Resist movement is calling the oppositionists to another gathering in vain. If everyone sincerely wanted unity - no one asked them for unification - they would not have allowed the party on the verge of the census to hand over the opposition Kotor to the Depees in the middle of the protests and finally remove the opposition mayor Vladimir Jokić.
When the first symptoms of that joint venture appeared in the media, few could have predicted its dire consequences. Not so much for the opposition, she has nine lives and somehow always gets back on her feet. But for the protests and the Resist movement.
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If the opposition had supported the Agreement on the Future with even a third of the energy it emitted during the last days of the parliamentary session, Montenegro would look at least a little different today. Provided that all signatures are made with equal sincerity.
At the first meeting of the opposition and Resist, the DF representative claimed that "the technical government is delaying the fall of the regime." At the end of July, they submitted an amendment to the parliament regarding it as a necessary tool for overthrowing the regime.
In March, the Democrats considered that government the main precondition for all other changes, now it is only one of the possibilities.
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Last year, the Front entered the Committee for Amendment of Electoral Laws with depees. Now that there is a chance that there will be Democrats in the new version of a similar committee - he refuses to participate. All the time, he attends the plenary sessions of the parliament unconditionally, although on March 27, the representatives of the Front gave their word to the leaders of the Resist movement that they will enter the Assembly only because of the verdict for the coup d'état.
Democrats are now promising that they will not participate in the work of the so-called of the Brussels committee if the rest of the opposition does not. That remainder, however, they did not even inform beforehand that they would reactivate the so-called Brussels plan.
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Swearing by the Agreement has become as meaningless as mass accusations of its violation. Because it is fundamentally meaningless even before signing. The moment when the majority of oppositionists supported the request of the Front to remove the boycott of the parliament from it.
Only Democrats and URA remained consistent with the boycott.
- What will we present to the citizens if we delete the boycott - one of the protest leaders asked the rest of the opposition. They didn't answer!
We went out with what we had. With a request for resignations, of which there could be nothing.
Because all the opposition did not have the same goal, neither this spring nor ever.
Because even after 30 years, the citizens did not understand that the Montenegrin D-Day would not last 24 hours but at least as many months.
Because the Resist movement could not compensate for the lack of experience, support and money with will, effort and enthusiasm alone.
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I almost forgot about the Civil Unity Government. Which both supporters and opponents call technical. Although technically it can also become the Government of the Prime Minister DM in case of his resignation. Linguistic confusion or a political project? I don't know, these exhibitions of European diplomats, domestic authorities and the opposition with the so-called the Brussels plan since last year. With the tendency for the result of the election and jubilee 2020 to remain the same...
PS On the eve of all elections, European politicians participate in some historic changes in our legislation. Every time Depees finds a lot of loopholes to cheat and steal votes. The opposition never recognizes the election result. Despite everything, or precisely because of it, messages always arrive from Europe that "the past elections were the most democratic elections so far"... Until when, it does not depend on them but on us, but we "got lost when we, instead of to ask how, we asked why, and finally we are lost now that, instead of asking where, we ask how"... To reiterate, Borislav Pekić spent half his life in the birthplace of European democracy...
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