Feudalists and serfs

That European civilization is a miracle. And very far from some from Montenegro. The other day I read that the Austrian General Civil Code from 1811 contained many solutions appropriate to feudalism, such as those that make owners of animals or dangerous things liable for damage caused by animals or dangerous things, if they are proven guilty.

As a result of the industrial revolution and significantly changed social relations, such provisions soon changed, so already at the end of the 19th century, owners (in some cases, holders) would be held liable if they caused damage to others in the event that they did not keep livestock, maintain facilities or handled things.

This new institution - which was later incorporated into the legislation of the Balkan states and states, mostly obligatory - was called objective responsibility. A term that has found its way into our political vocabulary these days.

During the current events, it was first used by the deputy president of the SDP Rasko Konjević who called out VDT Ivica Stanković due to the corrupt actions of the Secretary of the Prosecutor's Office Nenad Vujošević in Stanković's fief, and later also part of the members of the Prosecutor's Council who supported his election as acting VDT.

"One only has to wonder if it would be possible to not have objective responsibility in situations like this in an EU country," asked Konjević.

President of SDP and wife of Stanković, Draginja Vuksanović Stanković she shared Konjević's statement on her Facebook profile.

Objective responsibility in family relations - Draginja loudly, so that the whole neighborhood can hear, complains to her husband that there was a bad plumber in his fief who caused a flood, and Ivica does not see it, while on his knees, with his sleeves rolled up and a sponge in his hand, he buys water from the floor.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice Zoran Pazin appreciates that Stanković should have distanced himself because of the recordings that could be seen by the whole of Montenegro and transferred authority to one of his associates during the investigation:

"Responsibility is another name for democracy, so in this case too there had to be responsibility for appointing collaborators".

For the resignation of a colleague Pavle Radulović because of the corruption scandal involving two construction inspectors, Pažin says that it is an honorable move and a reflection of true responsibility:

"That's the way we in the Government perceive responsibility, and that's the difference between experiencing professional and objective responsibility."

If Radulović had not resigned, the sharp edge of criticism might have been aimed at him and the prime minister Duško Marković, in the same way as Stanković.

Or it would be turned from Stanković to Radulović and Marković. All because of objective responsibility.

And that's why the resignation of the minister of sustainable development and tourism, whether he decided it himself, as he says, or under pressure from Marković, is a politically wise and public-responsible move.

But, while Radulović is resigning, Stanković asks the prosecutors on the same day whether he should bear responsibility for all of them present in the courtroom, maintaining his earlier position that he does not feel objective responsibility because he did not hire Vujošević.

He didn't hire Radulović either Juretić I Bošković. There are those who have hired someone, but do not feel objective responsibility. More on that soon.

Marković seems to explain to Stanković what objective responsibility is. He immediately sent him a letter pointing out the "passive attitude of certain state prosecutors" from the Basic Prosecutor's Office in Kotor and the Higher Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, despite the fact that the police did everything to ensure that the proceedings against the two inspectors resulted in criminal proceedings.

And Stanković sends that letter to the Complaints Commission of the Prosecutor's Council.

Maybe Stanković does not see objective responsibility in his fiefdom because he looks up to someone whose objective responsibility in the Montenegrin fiefdom is much greater.

And that is the president of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic.

He has been working as the general secretary in the office of the president for months Slavoljub Migo Stijepović which he does not plan to suspend, while the prosecutors and courts conclude with Vesna Medenica don't do their job:

"We are all witnesses that in many cases investigations are opened and closed and no indictments are filed, and that when indictments are filed, they do not result in convictions."

The General Secretary of the President of the State is currently under investigation by the Special Prosecutor's Office for the criminal offense of actual criminal organization and money laundering through assistance.

The Agency for the Prevention of Corruption fined DPS 20 euros for misdemeanors and ordered the return to the budget of 47 euros, which it determined was a donation. Duško Knežević to that party. Even as it is, the Agency could not turn a blind eye to what Knežević announced.

Đukanović himself admitted, at that famous press conference when he spoke about "voluntariness of interest" between donors and DPS, that Stijepović received a larger donation than the one allowed by the Party Financing Act.

Stijepović has proven to have caused damage to Montenegro and, of course, to the DPS in the eyes of the international community and part of the domestic public. Distrust in the electoral process has deepened in Montenegro.

That is why the owner or holder of things should feel responsible both according to the rules and laws from the time of feudalism. And especially according to the current European standards in which, to quote Vice President Pažin again, when he spoke about Stanković.

"Responsibility is another name for democracy, so in this case too there had to be responsibility for appointing collaborators".