An anti-war friend calls me on Tuesday, asking if I watched the interview with Žarko Rakčević on TV Jusovača.
- I'm not, I don't watch TVCG at night for health reasons, but I will watch the video.
- Don't, I swear to God - my friend immediately foamed at the mouth - if you write about that commissar in a skirt one more time, the third guest from Ura will not leave the studio alive...
- What happened, did Dritan bring the Ravnogorans nineteen times to dismember Montenegro?
- No, just four times. She was surprised that Žarko was not acting as his guardian. I didn't even half understand her, her questions are miles long...
It's a pity that I didn't listen to my friend, I even watched two thirds of it.
The only sign missing was that Serbs were prohibited from entering. Not in the studio, they are welcome there, in truth only pro-government and imported ones. Rather, the entry of these domiciles into power, until they invoke patriotism and elect representatives according to the depees.
This is why the names of undesirable peoples have been periodically changed for three decades. At the beginning of the nineties, it was Montenegrins, Muslims and Albanians, the Serbs took their turn after the referendum.
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In the interview with Žarko Rakčević, it was the expert government's turn.
- Tell me whether the Political Council has so far, that is, after the election, discussed whether the URA Civic Movement should even join the coalition, that is, the alliance with the coalition For the Future of Montenegro, especially because of certain members of the Coalition for the Future of Montenegro, and I will remind you that you have said several times that the future of Montenegro is not DPS and neither is DF on the other hand. So, did the Political Council decide on this and did it even give advice to the leader of Ura and Ura in general on how to behave in that situation, since we know that part of those parties are in the coalition for the future of Montenegro, that they are parties which have Greater Serbian rhetoric and which are close to certain ideologies, and I can even say that at the head of the DF we have Chetnik Duke Andrija Mandić and so on and so forth. Did you discuss it at all and say that Ura should enter a coalition with the coalition For the Future of Montenegro - was the first question of Duška Pejović.
The longest I have heard in forty years in Montenegro, the region and beyond. And vague only on first listen...
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The second was a bit shorter:
- So, Ura enters into a political alliance or coalition, forms the government, the future government in Montenegro with part of the coalition For the future of Montenegro, I mean the DF right away, which inherits the Great Serbian politics, which considers Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić great heroes and heroes , which denies Montenegro and Montenegrins as a people, can you explain to me whether it is in Montenegro's interest that Ura joins that coalition...
This question is missing a sentence and a half, its author much more. First of all, the awareness that the majority of representatives of the Democratic Front represent the majority of Serbs in Montenegro. Judging by the number of votes, at least two-thirds.
Forming a government without the majority and the only relevant representative of a third of the population is not in the interest of Montenegro, but it is a textbook example of chauvinism.
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Yes, one of the leaders was declared a Chetnik duke. But only in 2007, he did not earn it with the death of a single member of the minority peoples, the most numerous victims of the Chetnik movement.
The leaders of the depees are, at least four of them. I am not referring to receiving the ducal title, but to the suffering of Muslims/Bosniaks, Croats and Albanians.
It is naive to hope that the so-called journalist public broadcaster says it, but you can't pretend you don't know. Andrija Mandić is not to blame for sending refugees under the knife to Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, but Momir Bulatović, Milo Đukanović and Svetozar Marović.
The fact that they blamed their own deportation on their dead friend Pavlo Bulatović cannot change the truth.
The fact that by extraditing General Pavle Strugar to The Hague, all three tried to cover up their criminal and political responsibility for the occupation of parts of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina does not change the truth. Nor placing the blame for Lim's action on one minister's assistant.
It does not help to wash the biography - not three, but two leaders of the depees - even in the case of Eagle Flight. The forgiveness of some leaders of minority parties is in vain, history does not forgive.
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By keeping silent about the full truth about that and all other crimes committed by the leaders of the depees, TV Jusovača (p)remained their accomplice.
That's why since August 30, its journalists have only pretended to be surprised how someone can be in the same government with oral Chetniks, while offering depees as an alternative. The party that was brought to power in 1989 by the Chetnik ideology, and it turned that ideology into a state policy.
And not orally but very much in writing, it was written with heavy partisan artillery in neighboring countries and Chetnik terror in ours.
For hundreds and hundreds of crimes, TV Jusovača never even asked any depees leader.
They changed the policy? They are, partially. But there is no forgiveness for war crimes. Nor can any word of war, no matter how difficult, be compared to them.
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In order not to start looking like a patriotic journalist in my old age, I tried my best to find understanding for some of the outbursts of President Zdravko Krivokapić. Especially those about St. Basil as the winner of the election, saving Montenegro by returning it to the church, two Serbian states, kissing the Serbian - secular or spiritual, it doesn't matter - flag in a kneeling position...
I do not understand, however, this way of forming the government, which has already turned into chaos.
On the night of the election on August 30, the representative was categorical:
- For Montenegro, the best solution is an expert government. With a limited period, but without it there is no improvement!
While the celebratory rapture lasted, the idea was acceptable to most of the opposition champions. There was no opposition, at least not public.
There was public self-nomination of politicians, but not as noisy as the one that followed after Krivokapić officially received his mandate.
- Montenegro is facing difficult and historic challenges that only a government with an EXPERT character can overcome - announced the mandate several times, despite the leader's wishes, until October 24.
And then he left it to them to form his government.
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Meanwhile, he spent 54 days on a mathematical operation - to divide about twenty seats among three coalitions. And one ministry to two.
He didn't even give the parties five days to comment on the offer, if their claims that the first version of the distribution of functions was subsequently changed are correct.
- All those who are prolonging the process of forming the government because of partial interests are consciously or unconsciously working in favor of the former regime - said the mandate holder on October 29, even though the procedure was prolonged mostly because of him.
In addition to all that - as if he never even mentioned the expert government - he left it to the parties to supply him with a list of names, specifying deadlines by the hour.
- Everyone will go through an individual competence check - he promised, although he has not yet received the names of all the ministers.
How he will fulfill his promise - he did not elaborate. It does not seem very realistic that by the deadline he set for himself - November 8 - he can manage to check all his competencies and respect the announced date of appearing before the deputies.
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On Thursday morning, he announced a long-awaited address to the public, but postponed it in the evening "due to the density of events and meetings with numerous political entities".
He did not say what prevented him from submitting a report on the formation of the government to the public at least once a week for two whole months. The "density of meetings" with the leaders of the parties is certainly not, they started protesting a long time ago because the president communicates with them by e-mail.
Despite everything, they should have interpreted it as a sign of respect, because he addressed the citizens - on Twitter.
As far as Montenegro understands tweeting, eighty-eight percent would never read his messages if tireless portals did not forward them at the same time.
The mandate holder is clearly tired. That is why he will continue to inform us on Twitter about "views and events related to the negotiation process".
Until one day a list of politicians from the party government appeared on his Twitter...
PS And then Ura and Democratic Montenegro will be forced to tell the public, not by tweeting of course, which of the two evils they have chosen - to deceive their voters by joining the party government or to call for early elections...
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