It's Wednesday, noon, I'm sitting in front of the TV so I don't miss the beginning of the parliamentary session. Opposition politicians are also worried, not only today but for four whole months. So that they don't miss any useful legal ambiguity, because even the smallest detail can be useful. The Depees, Esde and Bees people still hope for a quick return, they are not surprised when they don't know how to do anything other than being the government.
This is what happens when people get sick of importance. First, they themselves believe that they are irreplaceable, and then, until retirement, they convince their voters of this. At the price of making a joke not only of one election result, but also of the entire country.
The former regime obviously has no intention of waiting - not thirty, but not even three years - for a normal change in elections.
There is no hope of a repeat of history, it was difficult to get to power on the street the first time with the help of Serbia, let alone the second time without it.
The trust in the Montenegrin committees also turned out to be in vain, that strain mutated for decades and weakened beyond measure. That's probably why the successors of Krsto Zrnov braved the NATO flag in front of the Parliament of Montenegro...
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In the fight for right, honor and freedom, the comitis-patriotic brigades did not come in full force, but not even an honest company could be assembled from those gathered. A little because of the committee's unpreparedness for the cold, more because of the preparations for the elections in Nikšić.
Colonel or deceased is the question now, there is no third way for the Komite leader.
If he loses his guard at the northern end, not only will the beautiful face of the retired master's plume not be adorned by billboards with the image of this recent one. On the other hand, if his party troops lose control over Onogošta, they will also lose the chance to take part in the governance of Montenegro before 2028. If there is any chance at all that they will be able to stay together with Bashibozuk...
It is precisely to this goal, to keep the bashibozuk together, that the creeping coup that has been organized by the imprisoned institutions since last summer should serve. Its other name is - obstruction in the comity way.
Appealing to democratic procedures only serves to make the former European partners remember as soon as possible what it is all about.
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When the opposition uses all means to disrupt or disable the work of the parliament in order to cause as much damage as possible to the current government, it is called obstruction. And that is not forbidden in a democracy.
Despite this, it is practiced only in exceptional situations. Because obstruction can cause more damage than allowed, i.e. threaten the general and long-term interest of citizens and the state, not just the individual and short-term interest of the authorities.
So says the theory.
On the Terrain, which only recognizes the interest of one interest clique, obstruction is carried out in every place where its interests can be threatened. By blocking key decisions not only in the parliament, but also in the prosecutor's office, the judiciary and other institutions, Montenegro remains a prisoner of the former government, even though the citizens disempowered it in the elections four and a half months ago.
That is why the day before yesterday the Constitutional Court could have made fun of the Constitution. And that was just a demonstrative exercise of what is still waiting for the Parliament and the Government, until the President's mandate expires.
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The court, which has been the subject of public ridicule for years due to thousands of unresolved appeals, proposals and initiatives, has turned its head right now, showing its agility by outmaneuvering one of the parliamentary committees.
To make the mess worse, navrat-nanos exercises rigor over procedural changes to the rules of procedure, and for decades, perverse laws passed through his feet, which ceased to be valid sooner than they would have received a decision on (un)constitutionality.
Let the Assembly declare itself in 15 days at the latest, that's how the command of the Constitutional Court was, asking the highest body of the legislative power to sit when it is not time.
Well, it doesn't have to be for 15, it can be for 30, the president of that court bargained after the president of the Assembly snapped at him that he would not violate the Rules of Procedure, let alone the Constitution.
In the meantime, MPs tried to clarify what the executive and legislative powers can do when the Constitutional Court violates the Constitution. It turned out - nothing. But, literally nothing, until at least eight more members of the opposition join the ruling majority.
The only thing left for the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister was to hold press conferences, which they did during the afternoon. The Minister of Justice can no longer even do that. He once tried to say something about a court that cares about justice just as much as the Constitutional Court and - got stuck in the Special Prosecutor's Office.
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Even the ruling parliamentary majority cannot do anything. Unless she also confesses in front of the public and saves her soul. That's what she did, the shortest and most effective so far, but in vain.
Slaven Radunović: The insolence shown by the Constitutional Court cannot be expected even from a street gang. These are brutal party soldiers.
Branko Radulović: We need to prepare for a stronger and more concrete fight.
Momo Koprivica: The Constitutional Court is not doing its job, as well as the Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, it is a case of classic abuse of official position.
Miodrag Lekić: We are living in a moment of institutional obstruction. I appeal to the actors of cohabitation in their announcements to avoid "continuing the dialogue" as if we were in France, to adapt our actions and rhetoric to what we are experiencing.
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With rhetoric, I can somehow, but with actions, it is difficult, all laws are adapted to a single mind in all three branches of the former government. The fact that the President may sign these, which the new majority had to adopt twice, is not enough reason for hope. Because he doesn't have to do that, as long as the Constitutional Court is like this.
And to sign them, what good. Changes to the most important laws and adoption of new ones are yet to come. If this kind of obstruction was organized due to the failed registration of church wealth in the name of the state, what kind will follow due to the very successful registration of state wealth in personal names, when the judiciary remains in the hands of the former government for who knows how long...
And Milan Knežević is absolutely right - what will these courts do to us, it would be better if we opened a hospital, a psychiatry, or let Dragan Bokan open a shopping center... As for me, I vote for psychiatry...
PS Nebojša Medojević, 18.11. 2020: "I speak by name who participated in this fraud on behalf of the Church - Bishop Joanikije, Pope Gojko Perović and Vlado Božović. They are responsible for this fraud and betrayal of the voters. And the Church is not the priests, but the people. Only I will no longer participate in the political games of the priests who once again played for Milo Đukanović and the survival of this regime."
Nebojša Medojević, 16/1/2021: "I have never had a problem with the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, especially not with the bishop of Buda-Nišić and the administrator of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, Mr. Joaniki. Today I am in the cathedral monastery of the Eparchy of Buda-Nikšić, George's Pillars in Berane, had a very instructive, benevolent and Christian conversation with him."
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