Friday, February 10 - It was the shortest session of the Montenegrin parliament since the introduction of the multiparty system. Not even two and a half years after the promise that the law on the confiscation of criminally acquired property would be one of the three priorities, the deputies did not even deign to start a debate on it.
They will not support the proposal of the Government which they voted no confidence in six months ago? Okay, and who prevented them from proposing a better version for the previous twenty-four months...
That the DPS would oppose the anti-mafia law was not only expected but also completely logical.
So that "the hairs don't think about it", the government was overthrown allegedly because of the fundamental contract. And the "Ima nas" protests, just as allegedly, organized for the defense of the Constitution...
And why is that law not to the liking of the majority of representatives of the ruling majority and part of the non-governmental sector? Well, that's what I've been wondering for months...
I sincerely hope that I won't have to wait until the next parliamentary elections for an answer...
Or, god forbid, until the foreclosures start...
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Saturday, February 11 - This is what happens when democracy is two hundred years late. And when he comes, he does it upside down.
Unlike the French Revolution, in which the republic replaced the absolutist monarchy, in 1989, the so-called AB revolution that overthrew the republic to introduce the absolutism of the monarch. Not hereditary, but elected, which is the only good consequence of the January 11 coup.
One of the nearly thirteen thousand bad consequences of his rule - every day for these 34 years brought at least one - is the strengthening of the cult of the master to a level that Nikola Mirkov and Josip Broz could not reach even collectively...
The list of candidates for the post of President, more protocol than powerful, will probably be longer than the electoral list for the parliamentary elections.
The consequences of that comedy, however, will not be amusing. The choice of the lesser evil, and it was for an extended period of time, cost Montenegro too much.
This time she may have to choose between an experienced candidate for whom his nation is more important than a common state, an apprentice in politics who got married before running, and - a representative of a former corrupt and autocratic regime.
There will be more, signatures are being collected for one convinced democrat with clean hands?
Yes, but even if he enters the second round, it is unlikely that the party bases of the first two can be united. Not only because of the campaign disputes that are yet to follow ahead of the first round. But because I haven't been able to look each other in the eyes since that campaign from the summer of 2020.
Maybe DPS would support him? Hardly, that party never looked beyond its own interests, especially lucrative ones. Nor, unlike Ura and SNP, was she ever ready to fight for higher goals at her own expense...
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Sunday, February 12 - I watch the TV reports after the earthquake and try to understand what higher goals are preventing the Western world from devoting the same compassion, the same budget and the same containers of humanitarian aid to Syria as they do to Turkey.
And not that I don't understand, but I am confused. Not only with the relationship between states, but also with the media, of which our journalists mostly just copy, not including the brain...
Syria is at war, it is difficult to deliver aid? It's true, but the war was fierce in the Balkans, so that didn't stop the convoys from the West...
But that country is also under sanctions? Yes, unfortunately, they were introduced by the USA and the EU, but the blockade should not apply to humanitarian aid.
FR Yugoslavia was under sanctions first for four years, and later for another two, not only by the USA and the EC, but by the whole world. Despite this, UN Resolution 757 was not an obstacle to the delivery of food, medicine, soap, etc...
That is why the first aid should have started from Montenegro and Serbia...
Unfortunately, it didn't...
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Monday, February 13 - It's not Friday, but it's a black day for the construction mafia, which she lamented - she lamented.
Even next to Morača, she left pits and an apocalyptic desolation.
And it almost left the coast without water, because the yield of the Bolje sestre water source dropped from 2.600 liters per second to only - 220.
And left the state coffers without hundreds of millions of euros.
And the residents of the surrounding villages were left without (clean) air for years...
The strength of the state, that ancient DPS slogan came to mind as I watched the construction machines move against the construction mafia.
With a concern that can only be understood by those who, even in the last century, hoped that one day the warring parties - the state government and the fighters for environmental protection - would meet together on some ecological battlefield.
Well, that's normal?
Yes, in a normal state.
Unfortunately, for three decades, Montenegro has contacted environmental activists mainly through the police...
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Tuesday, February 14 - I go to Facebook to ask Vuk Vujisic for his impressions, but he has already posted:
"I know that someone will misunderstand this and think that I am creating a campaign for someone, but I have to mention the following out of principle and human responsibility..."
Uh, I knew exactly. No, our country will not return to normal quickly, I mean the factory settings before DPS happened to it, but there are so many abnormal citizens on the networks that normal people have to justify themselves because of their own humanity.
And it is human to support everyone who does something good:
"These people, in addition to numerous obstructions in institutions, pressures, sabotage and criticism, took responsibility and made a brave move.
In addition to numerous legal entanglements, corruption, subterfuge, the most expensive lawyers, today they went to the scene and exclusively in the public interest started to defend the source and the Morača river, speaking the truth to the cameras and calling things by their right name.
The functions are from today to tomorrow, but what they started to do, and they have hundreds of millions and the construction mafia against them, is a huge thing and we must all praise it!
I hope that tomorrow, if someone tries to hit them with lawsuits, threats or subterfuges because of this, we will be responsible, in solidarity and stand up for them.
It often seems to all of us that it is easy to run the country when you are the government, but we also do not see everything that happens behind the scenes and how difficult it actually is in this transition period.
Of course, we will continue to criticize what is bad, but the time has come to praise what has been done well, because that is called fairness.
Montenegro can work in the public interest and it has shown that today and in the past weeks."
Those people, Vuk tagged them at the end, are Dritan Abazović, Ana Novaković-Đurović, Filip Adžić and Vladimir Joković.
I don't really like modern tagging, but I can sign the old fashioned way. And how. And from the heart...
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Wednesday, February 15 - Of course, I can also stop writing when I see that it is futile.
Pastor Gojko Perović's 19.132-character essay on Saint Sava is very instructive.
But I didn't even question the (pro)enlightenment mission of the Serbian saint, but rather the propagation of the nationalist Saint Savan ideology in Montenegrin public schools.
And in this polemic, the problem was not one saint, but two worldviews.
Only the respected but unprovoked interlocutor could not or did not want to understand that...
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Thursday, February 16 - Oh, no one can insult a man like he himself...
- I have been a Montenegrin citizen all my life and I have all the formal and legal requirements to be a candidate for the President, because I was born in this country and I have a registered residence in Montenegro for more than ten years - Milojko Spajić tried to return the wasted chance by the withdrawal method.
Late, he had the last chance to do so on February 4, when he lost the most important of all conditions - the moral one.
The truth that he has Montenegrin citizenship and residence is, unfortunately, not the whole truth. And half-truths in politics, as in life, are more dangerous than lies.
I don't have one... I had one, I didn't... I had both but I checked out... It's not "spins, injustice, targeting, attacking family and friends"...
It's all nonsense, I never had a company in Cyprus... in fact I did, but as if I didn't... We heard that from the recent President...
And that's why they announced a competition for someone different, but not only by name, citizenship and place of residence...
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