Uh, it's good, we somehow got away with no consequences in manpower. I know, I darkened too much, but experience makes me do it preventively. Especially on days that can be turning points, and in Montenegro it can be every time a single-ethnic group takes to the streets.
Fortunately, the only break that occurred was in the behavior of the police towards the protesters. If the Prime Minister had not sent them that threatening tweet - the credit would have gone to the Government.
This way, she is left to bear the blame. Because such a tweet cannot be justified by the personal attitude of the first minister, the position does not take away that right from only some - like the Minister of Justice - but from everyone in the Government. But also because of all the other clumsy statements that put pressure on citizens at least once a week.
Therefore, the conflict between the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice cannot be treated as personal. If both of them were telling the public the full truth, this is not about reconciling two people. But two Montenegros - anti-war and war.
Reconciliation between the two Montenegros is not possible, at least not in the near future. But a peaceful life with those differences is. Provided that both the government and the opposition stop fueling them.
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Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić did this last week, addressing the public of the civil state with "respected people of Montenegro". Regardless of the fact that he did not specify which of the five nations he was referring to, he left open the possibility that each of the remaining four felt hurt, undervalued or "just" neglected.
- These days we are attending gatherings that violate freedom in a certain way, stopping the freedom of some others who would just like to move freely - how fortunate that he didn't go into details.
Because in those days, the communist, patriotic and other movements of Montenegrin identity gathered. Whose "right to move freely" and "suspension of freedom" he did not mention, while the processions in which he himself participated blocked many more roads in many more cities for much longer, and with much greater mass.
- They expect the Montenegrin Spring to happen in Montenegro, as they are forcing us to do, probably alluding to the Arab Spring. Those years and that spring have passed - the prime minister didn't even bother to feign tolerance and show at least a minimum of democratic capacity.
The Arab one, I hope, has passed, but the Montenegrin one is just beginning. The fact that the religious - and, by God, some political - goals of last year's spring have been fulfilled, does not mean that other religious and political communities must be deprived of their right to protest. And especially not with an appeal to democracy...
Fortunately, democracy is such that it guarantees the right to go out on the streets, first of all, to those who disagree with the prime minister. Or him with them anyway...
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- We are now preparing the Montenegrin summer - the prime minister clumsily contrasted the right to bread and the right to freedom, although the struggles for those two rights not only do not exclude each other, but must go on simultaneously.
The fact that he personally, immediately after coming to power, first took care of relief for the Serbian church and not for Montenegrin tourism does not mean that it should not become the rule, but must remain the exception.
- The pictures that someone wants to send from the Montenegrin streets work directly against the state - he repeated, without any fence, Milo Đukanović's message from last year.
The Prime Minister and all those with whom he was protesting at the time considered that message very dangerous. Precisely because of the threat it carried, many of those who not only do not believe in God, but also in the right of the Serbian Orthodox Church to manage all church property in Montenegro stood up to defend the right to litia.
- The obligation of all political subjects in Montenegro is to call their supporters to give up gatherings (...) and to turn to daily obligations, peace, order and work - the prime minister managed to surprise once again by not knowing his own obligations.
One of them is that both the Prime Minister and the Government make a maximum effort not to give any reason for the gathering of anyone's supporters on the street. And not that the part of the Government with him at the head gives them, but more and more often it seems as if that is their goal.
When he first announced changes to the Law on Montenegrin Citizenship, I thought he had lost his mind. He has no experience in law and politics, the engineer confused the law and by-laws, Minister Sergej Sekulović will clarify everything...
And he clarified, persistently and persistently. No one touches the Law, but an illegal decision on its application is assimilated to the Constitution. Everyone understood him, except the prime minister.
- The Government's obligation is to bring all discriminatory laws into line with "known rights", and one of those laws is the Law on Citizenship - it could not be missed the second time, for RTS's "Oko".
On the contrary, after Minister Sekulović's guest appearance at Reflektor and the unprecedented effort to calm public passions, the Prime Minister's statement was - a finger in the eye.
Not only to those who have already protested, whoever organized them, but also to everyone else who has had enough of being organized into single-national camps.
The fact that the earlier statement that "nobody has defeated the state yet, neither today nor in the future" was directed against a single nation does not make it any less threatening.
The state is all the inhabitants of Montenegro, both those who protest and those who (still) sit at home, and those who voted for this government and those who did not. A threat to the state can only be someone who does not understand it.
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It is good that the comitis patriots withdrew from the barricades, but it is not good that the public, and I am afraid not even the majority of the insurgents, do not know whether this was done because the Government's amendment of the Government's decision was delayed or because their leader let them down the drain publicly washing their hands of the whole rebellion.
- If we were to organize people and take them out on the street for some reason, it would look much more powerful - I read Milo Đukanović's statement on the portals.
That they were busy was obvious, and obvious things cannot be proven.
It was also obvious that they tried to camouflage it by establishing a dozen comitis-patriotic movements, alliances, initiatives, groups and associations.
And the most obvious of all is the fact that command on the field was left to frivolous, inexperienced or just unknown personnel.
That is why the old guard of depees, although not publicly, washes their hands not only of this kind of rebellion, but also of the leader of the rebels.
"He is a man of outmoded political thought, devoid of the ability to strategically look at the challenges facing our country" - the boomerang with which he targeted Slobodan Milošević a quarter of a century ago will return to Milo Đukanović.
There are fewer and fewer who believe him that "there are more of them on our side". Because they know very well that Depees is not a patriotic community but an interest community.
Interest, not patriotism, kept that party going when it brought Montenegro into the war.
Interest, not patriotism, prevailed even during the split in 1997, when the Second Party received the support of only seven of the 146 members of the Main Board. And then, in just two months, he became the First.
It was interest, not patriotism, that decided not to go to the Kosovo war in 1999.
After 2006, interest, not patriotism, caused almost half of the citizens to declare themselves traitors.
PS Interest, not patriotism, would definitely keep that party going for at least another year. But its president is no longer able to realize it even for himself, let alone for others. The grotesque revival of the long-dead Komite movement is just another proof of the great defeat and destruction that follows. If the new government finally gets serious and, to begin with, stops maintaining the action unity of the defeated depees.
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