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Does Cetinje ever get the upper hand...

Is it realistic that the inauguration of the President will be risky in Cetinje, where several hundred people usually protest, and safe in Podgorica, where less than a few thousand people don't go to the street...

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Friday, April 21 - Well, each of them was golden for that Hegel even after two hundred years... History has a tendency to repeat itself, the first time as a tragedy, the second time as a farce...

The investigating judge of the High Court in Podgorica confirmed the decision of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which prevented the defense attorney of the arrested president of the municipality of Budva, Milo Božović, from accessing the case files.

And what's the point here? On the first reading, nothing, the denial of that right is provided for in the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Secondly, it should be noted that Article 203 of the CPC, which the judge referred to, does not say at all what she wrote.

On the third, which the defense attorney and I did separately but at the same time, there is an inscrutable secret, not that it is noticeable, but literally stings the eyes:

- How can someone who is hiding see the case files?

* * *

Saturday, April 22 - Why do I have a note about tragedy and farce in my writings?

For the reason that the judge for the investigation is Suzana Mugoša, and the defense attorney is Miroje Jovanović.

Her distribution of justice due to the alleged tragic repetition of Montenegrin history looks more and more, from this distance, like peer violence against the defender...

Jovanović: Can the witness explain when and where he crossed the state border?...

Mugoša: I don't allow the question! As for you, lawyer...

Jovanović: Because, judge, there is no proof at any border point that he is here at all.

Mugoša: Silence! You are fined 500 euros!

***

Jovanovic: Can I just...

Mugoša: Sit down when I tell you!

Jovanovic: But I just wanted to...

Mugoša: No, lawyer!! I will punish you!

***

Jovanović: Why does this defendant not have a defense attorney?

Mugoša: The answer is withheld, why do you ask that?

Jovanović: Well, maybe there is no money...

Mugoša: What if you won't pay for his lawyer...

Jovanovic: No, but yes...

Mugoša: I'm taking your word away. You are fined another 500 euros...

***

Jovanović: Can the witness remember where he was on New Year's Eve?

Mugoša: I don't allow an answer, it's none of your business...

Jovanović: It concerns his credibility. He was in custody...

Mugoša: It doesn't matter! Sit down, lawyer!

Jovanović: But the fact that he was in...

Mugoša: Silence, lawyer, you are punished with...

* * *

Sunday, April 23 - Milo Božović's political defense is also completely wrong.

No one has the right to doubt the sincerity of more than four thousand citizens of Budva who signed the initiative to release their president from detention.

But some of the arguments put forward by its authors are not suspicious, but classic political manipulation.

Because the "unhindered functioning of local self-government bodies" is not in charge of the judges who decide on detention, but the mayor and councilors who have not managed to decide who they want as vice-president even in six months.

DF in Budva has absolute power. His inability to bear the burden of his own victory is the cause of the possible non-fulfillment of daily obligations, "starting from salary payments, to the conclusion of contracts and the municipality's ability to defend itself in court"...

The emotional manipulation that "Milo Božović was the key man who overthrew the Đukanović regime and we are seeing him return" is not only wrong but also very dangerous.

At least 213.726 were key to the overthrow of the regime.

We know that it is dangerous because after a victory, nobody needs anything to "come back", especially not officials with a special status before the judicial authorities...

That "Milo Božović was handcuffed because he is a Serb", and instead of a comment, I have a question:

And were Vesna Medenici, Petar Lazović, Veselin Vukotić, Radoj Zvicer... handcuffed just because they are Montenegrins...

* * *

Tuesday, April 25 - It was not logical for the leaders of the DF to run in front of the ore, after the ambassador of Montenegro supported the entry of Kosovo into the Council of Europe...

- A national shame that we will have to wash off our face.

- One of the most shameful decisions in Montenegrin history.

- The deepest stabbing in the back of Serbia...

... That's what politics said...

And what does the language profession say about the aforementioned running in front of the ore?

- A statement in the wrong time... When someone does something premature, thoughtless, hasty... or gets involved in something inappropriately and unnecessarily - explains the ancient Dictionary of the Serbo-Croatian language...

As always, he is right.

This is why it is premature, reckless and rash to blindly follow the political giant slalom of the Serbian leader.

Because for years now, his verbal rant against European demands always ends - with a signature on every European document.

And it is inappropriate and unnecessary to oppose something that two independent and sovereign states, Serbia and Kosovo, have already accepted.

And they accepted, if we are to believe the words of Aleksandar Vučić and Aljbin Kurti given on February 27 in Brussels and March 19 in Ohrid, that "they will implement all points of the agreement, without exception".

The fourth point of that agreement reads:

- Serbia will not object to Kosovo's membership in any international organization!

When there are no objections, there is no opposition either, that is also clear to the Democratic Front.

It is not clear, however, why the opposition of anyone from DF to the membership of Kosovo in any of those organizations...

When their leader Andrija Mandić, just twenty days ago, publicly announced that the status of that country was a finished matter and that the Front was giving up on the demand that Montenegro withdraw its recognition of Kosovo...

* * *

Wednesday, April 26 - The incoming President of Montenegro gave up the inauguration in Cetinje, the President of the Assembly scheduled the ceremony for May 20 in Podgorica today.

Which is not at all good for Montenegro, or for Jakov Milatović.

Why? First of all, because giving up the capital sends a message that the country does not have control over part of its territory.

Then, that the future President of that country and the current Speaker of its Parliament doubt the ability of the Police Administration, the Security Agency and the Army to guarantee peace and security in Montenegro.

And not only in their collective, but also in the personal and professional ability of the Minister of Police - who is also the Minister of Defense, and also from Cetinje - Filip Adžić to guarantee the security of the President of the State and state dignitaries...

Last but not least - with this decision, the state expresses doubts about the loyalty of at least 13.372 residents of the capital.

And Jakov Milatović's public disloyalty towards the 2.556 citizens of Cetinje who voted for him to be the new host of the Residence.

Expressing fear of the possible violent behavior of some participants in possible protests, the state publicly suspected each of the 6.353 voters of the outgoing President of being ready to violate the Law on Public Assemblies.

That law is drastically more liberal than the one from the nineties, which is good.

It is bad that by moving the inauguration of the President, it is shown that all four of his predecessors were drastically more liberal than this one, whom we have yet to officially induct...

In Cetinje, Momir Bulatović was - to put it in the language of a lawyer - subjected to scorn, rude insults and insolent and reckless behavior more than once...

In front of Billiard, he was shouted at - in the vernacular - "traitor of Montenegro, murderer, thief, bastard of Slobodan Milošević"...

There was no escape for him even when the security guards brought him into the car, they spat at him, insulted him, hit him with their hands and feet on the vehicle...

But Momir Bulatović never gave up on coming to Cetinje...

Neither did his predecessor Branko Kostić, who was spat in the face, punched hard and honored with the exclamation: "Slobodan Milošević's waiter"!

In those nineties, Milo Đukanović also had to go to the capital with several hundred policemen, sometimes escorted or on patrol...

Even three-time President Filip Vujanović was never denied a "welcome". On the eve of the last inauguration, he was not only greeted by demonstrators in Cetinje, but also the first protest march from Podgorica to the capital was held in his honor...

And after such a welcome, all four of them came to Cetinje... Even though none of them wanted or knew how to be the President of all the citizens.

Jakov Milatović said that he would and that he could, almost two-thirds of the voters took his word for it...

And he, just three weeks later, gave up...

* * *

Thursday, April 27 - How fortunate that, instead of the head of state, his party leader is inclined to give up...

Did I say that we will only pay dearly for Milojko Spajić's seemingly incoherent exhibitions...

Here, he has already broken the civil block. And the citizens' hope for a unique two-thirds parliamentary majority, without which Montenegro has no way out of the vicious circle due to the Constitution, which the DPS compared to one-party rule.

That after this blitz-war, Spajić would generously give up the post of prime minister - there is no way...

And then, happy new 1990... And the new DPS... And its new development philosophy... And Years begin in July...

And... We know how... With a sure step...

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