Saturday, November 19 - There are us, and how there are us... And there will be us. Whenever necessary... - Milo Đukanović supported the protest in Podgorica ten days ago with words and pictures.
Who are his and ours - he has not yet explained.
For now, it is only clear that the calls for protests were publicly sent by the NGO Luča, DPS, SD, and SDP. According to unofficial estimates, around twenty thousand citizens of Montenegro took to the streets.
It is not possible to estimate how many supporters of the protest stayed at home. Even if that number coincides with the electoral support received by all three parties together, around two hundred thousand could stand behind the "Ima nas" protest.
Milo Đukanović has the right to stand behind them.
The President of Montenegro does not have that right.
Because it violates not only the Constitution and the Law on the President, but also elementary state and ethical norms.
It cannot be hidden by the cover on Twitter: "There is also Montenegro. Free, civil, multi-ethnic, independent. And there will be Montenegro. European".
Because it reveals the essence not only of the President's support for these protests but also of his entire rule - that Montenegro belongs only to those with whom he is ready to share the first person plural.
Fortunately, Montenegro also has them.
And more than four hundred and a quarter thousand.
And everyone is waiting for the next protest, for the President to tweet what will happen to them...
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Sunday, November 20 - Three dead in Rogami! Because the bridge on the Širalija stream was impassable due to the storm, and the crossing was deep under water!
Two days earlier, the entire Montenegrin public was informed that "unfavorable weather conditions are expected in the coming days".
All "participants in the protection and rescue system are invited to raise the level of operational readiness".
All local and communal services, "especially in the central and southern regions, have been warned to adapt their activities to the stated situation".
However, the bridge over Širalija was not closed to traffic.
That morning, a little after five o'clock, the torrent took the car into the water, but the driver swam out and saved himself.
Two hours later, the swollen Shiralija stream was fatal for a family of three.
And? And nothing to anyone.
An investigation has been carried out, but no one has been questioned, no one detained, no suspects.
Because you don't need to look for them on the spot. But in the systematization of jobs. It's not difficult, the information system was restored to "factory settings" a long time ago, a few clicks and the culprits could be found.
The warning of the state directorate on the danger of storms was issued according to pe-es.
It is known which local government is in charge of Rogame, who issues orders to close village bridges and who executes those orders.
It is also known who in that administration was warned by the residents of Rogam about the danger of crossing the bridge even under normal conditions.
It is also known how effective this same local administration was when it repeatedly warned the mayor of objections that "a woman at the porter's office wants to kill herself, she is hungry, she has a sick son, there is no one to help her"...
It is still not known who failed to effectively prevent the tragedy of the three-member Koruga family.
Which did not require the involvement of the entire local parliament, it would have been enough if a few officials had just done their job...
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Monday, November 21 - It's Arandjelov's Day, somewhere in the neighborhood you can hear "God save the two men, Karadžić and Mladić"...
My friend from Maslin calls me, she says that she went crazy with "young Major Đurišić" there...
All week long, the criminal process of the believing patriotic council against the handball players who sang "Sude mi" was conducted on the networks.
Today tajak...
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Tuesday, November 22 - The biggest admirers of double standards, and by God, creators of manipulations, are still believers of DPS.
The MP of that party, Jevto Eraković, claims that it is not possible to hold the census in Montenegro "under conditions of increased tensions and when pro-Russian influences are very strong".
Who raises tensions? Exactly DPS.
And who is the first to blame for the aforementioned influences in Montenegro? Also DPS.
In his governments, the strongest pro-Russian Sergei Shoigu was the minister of finance, economy, economy, and urban planning. Oleg Deripaska Assistant Minister. Not to mention the directors of the directorates, there are a lot of them.
But they were replaced? They did, but so late that the pro-Russian influence lasted much longer than their mandates. Tens of thousands of workers have not yet recovered from that impact.
From the consequences of despotism, taken over from their great leader Vladimir Putin, we will hardly recover for another decade...
Could it be that DPS only says pro-Russian, but actually means Serbian? It is not excluded, maybe he is just trying to cover it up in order to preserve at least some Serbian voice until the parliamentary and presidential elections.
Unfortunately, even the "majority owners" of Serbian votes are not far behind in the pre-census manipulations.
- The population census during the former regime, and especially the last two, was a political issue - how to reduce the number of Serbs in Montenegro. There will be significantly more of our people at this one, and then it will be the turn to amend the Constitution - several MPs of the DF repeated during the parliamentary debate on otherwise normal work.
How, with such a natural increase, there will be more Serbs if the census is not a political issue for the parties from that coalition - they did not explain.
As for the effect of the former regime on the number of people in Montenegro, this is best evidenced by the results of the census.
Even if for objective reasons we ignore the first post-war census in 1948, when there were 90,67 percent of Montenegrins and 1,78 percent of Serbs, only Montenegrins have reason to complain about that.
Before the DPS war for peace, there were 61,86 percent of them, and after twenty years - in peace - only 44,98 percent.
According to the 1991 census, the number of Serbs was 9,34 percent, and in 2011, even 28,73 percent.
Despite that, I don't remember that any Montenegrin thought of accusing the DPS of such census results.
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Wednesday, November 23 - It is not certain whether the DPS will now accuse the president of the Venice Commission, but I am completely delighted with Claire's letter to Bazi Mallory.
- I call on all political forces in the Parliament of Montenegro to elect the four missing judges of the Constitutional Court without delay by a qualified majority, in order to ensure a pluralistic composition of the court. The implementation of the Constitution requires the loyal cooperation of all state institutions - Malori stated in the announcement.
The session of the Assembly, where judges of the Constitutional Court will be elected, is scheduled for Monday.
DPS previously stated that it will not vote for the proposed candidates, but insists that the procedure should be returned to the beginning.
If that possibility was not lost in translation, going back to the beginning is unacceptable for the Venice Commission. Her "without delay" cannot be translated other than - at the next session.
As recently as yesterday, the DPS claimed to trust that commission, with full confidence it asked it to protect the party and state president from violations of the Constitution allegedly committed by the ruling majority.
Whether that party's faith in European institutions lasts as long as the cat's husband - it will be clear on November 28.
Until then, she can still beat the fleas and incite the protesters in the street to demand elections.
The elections she didn't want in the spring, when they were possible anyway, and she's running after them only after she blocked the holding of those elections with the blockade of the Constitutional Court.
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Thursday, November 24 - The day after the announcement of the Venice Commission, the opposition received another European slap.
Members of the European Parliament called on the European Union to give Montenegro benchmarks for closing the negotiation chapters.
- Montenegro, which is considered a leader in the EU accession process, should be given benchmarks for closing negotiation chapters in order to speed up the country's accession - it is written in the recommendation for which 502 MPs voted, 75 were against and 61 abstained.
The MEPs called on the EU to "encourage the process by no longer deciding on accession unanimously, but by a qualified majority".
And why do I consider these recommendations a slap in the face to the opposition? Well, because, unlike her MPs, I don't have a selective memory.
All this, and many more details from the European Parliament's extensive announcement, was repeated by Prime Minister Dritan Abazović even before the vote for his minority government. And in the exposition before the deputies. And in all the statements before and after the change of government.
Unfortunately, thirty Montenegrin MPs did not even see up close what seven hundred Europeans see from afar.
That the minority government did not "stop the road to European integration".
That the basic agreement will not "interrupt the acceleration of negotiations with Montenegro".
That neither the government nor its president are "traitors of the state" nor are they "destroying Montenegro with corruption and crime at the top of the state and the police"...
And how do I know that the European Parliament does not view the Montenegrin government as its opposition? Well, from the date on the announcement, it was sent for the mandate of this Government even though it lost domestic trust.
It doesn't seem foreign, at least not European, if they had believed the opposition's statements, the members of the EP would have postponed this recommendation until it came to power...
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