Friday, May 5 - Democracy is a miracle, we overthrew two governments in less than three years. Now we are waiting for the third - luck, and that of the majority...
To gild everything, if social networks are to be believed...
Despite that burst of optimism, I still choose to trust my eyes. That is why even today, after the farewell report, I think the same about the Government of Dritan Abazović as I did on the day of its election.
It was a good Government, well-intentioned - with a few exceptions - ministers. And the same prime minister, in Montenegro even the prime minister due to some qualities that I consider the most important for the conduct of state policy.
The first two are personal - cosmopolitanism and courage.
The third is political - the willingness to subordinate the interests of one's own party to higher and general social goals, no matter how much both the leader and the party are at a loss as a result.
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It didn't really seem logical, but I was fiercely opposed to the formation of a minority government. Not because of doubts about the political quality of her work, but because of the moral qualities of her support.
However, she was the first one I ever supported and the first one whose departure I will regret...
Why? First, because ZIKS got a lot of new tenants, and those whose move in I have been waiting for decades.
But that is the merit of the prosecution? It is, only that this merit came about by the will of the Government, then the Assembly, and only then the "state lawyers".
There were VDT and SDT long before, but they did nothing because there was no political will.
We were convinced by the former opposition and the civil sector, and especially the commissioners from the European Union, that the lack of that will is the biggest problem in the fight against corruption and crime. It seems to have been forgotten too quickly...
When the Government finally appeared with an excess of that will, everyone tried to overthrow it as soon as possible.
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My second expectation was two important laws - on confiscation of stolen property and on free elections.
The government was the first to write, both the government and the opposition, the civil sector and the EU are dissatisfied...
I'm not. And I don't think it was adopted because of the content, but because of those it can relate to...
For the same reasons, we will go to the elections for the third time this year under the same legislation...
And the third, fourth and fifth expectations, but not in order of importance, concerned the so-called small ordinary problems, such as those with the looting of gravel, forests, rivers - it is fulfilled...
Uh, I could now write an essay about the wonder with which I greeted the ban on the conversion of land after the arson...
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Of those big international deals, I was only interested in one...
No, it's not joining the European Union, I don't even know what we'll do there... After, instead of Europeanizing the Balkans, she Balkanized herself...
I was only worried about not doing any harm to our neighbors again, especially to Kosovo.
We've beaten him enough...
Ever since 1981, when Albanians first demanded a republic, until 1999, when many of them ended up in mass graves because of that demand...
Almost a quarter of a century has passed, NATO is in Kosovo and nobody in Montenegro is making a problem out of that.
Then why the fuss about Kosovo being in NATO? Or in the UN? Or in the EU and the Council of Europe...
Well, for this last one, thank you to the minority government for supporting our neighbors to be part of at least some of the majority...
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Saturday, May 6 - I read the comments of yesterday's Government report, the volleys of insults do not subside even at the end of the already short mandate.
It's been like that since its formation, like an explosion of accumulated anger that a severely ill society won't or can't control.
But that's why he wants and knows how to invoke police-prosecutor control over the anger that elementary school students express by fighting in the yard.
I understand, of course, the disappointment of those who expected more from this government.
It's just not clear to me what they were basing their expectations on. When a year ago they knew the same as I did - that it was a minority, limited in time and limited in support.
Unfortunately, that was the only possible one, but not by the will of the mandate but by the party. Both those who refused to support her and those who gave her support and then suddenly shot her down...
It is futile to explain how much more successful it would have been if on April 28, 2022, DF and DCG had supported the majority government and a full four-year mandate.
But one question still makes sense - what did the DPS have in mind when they shot down...
To increase election preparedness ahead of the local vote? We saw how he raised, especially in the capital and the capital...
To raise the national readiness of Montenegrins and overthrow the government on the street by spreading fear of the fundamental contract with the SPC? We saw how that attempt at a replay went in 1989, when the government was overthrown by raising the same readiness of another nation...
To give the President a third mandate and the party a third chance at the parliamentary elections? We saw how he made it possible, he was defeated in the presidential election by a margin of 66.823... Write failure for June 11...
And should I write what was the purpose of the fall of the Government? Well, the production of chaos, because an autocratic regime does best in it...
And he produced it, but not himself…
It's just that neither the DPS, nor the parties that helped to create it, will get the chance to navigate that chaos.
Someone else will get it...
And will he manage to manage or will he create even more chaos? Well, we will watch that after June 11...
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Sunday, May 7 - Day of mourning in Montenegro, due to two mass crimes that happened in two days in Belgrade and Mladenovac.
The crimes committed by the tabloid Serbian media against everyone in Serbia continue.
And about what its president Aleksandar Vučić is doing - everything has already been written by the most respected Serbian columnists...
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Monday, May 8 - When reporting on the tragic events in the neighboring country, the Montenegrin media showed a high level of professionalism.
Unexpected, first of all, because of the ignorance and unprofessionalism we witnessed right after last year's tragedy in Cetinje.
Why don't you give us the names of all the victims?... Whose bullet killed the murderer?... Why wasn't he killed as soon as he shot the tenants?...
Then there were questions similar to the ones that now the public of Montenegro and Serbia and the entire region are appalled by.
To the prosecutor's attempt to answer that the names are first communicated to the families, that the fatal bullet can only be found by the post-mortem - new and equally inappropriate questions followed...
What were his last words?... Did he fight with his family before?...
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Tuesday, May 9 - It seems that the Montenegrin society with common sense had a quarrel, and that a long time ago...
Woe to the country where responses to peer violence are expected from the police...
Why? Well, because she is the last in the line!
When children become the responsibility of the police, the violence has already happened.
Only parents and the school can act preventively.
Accordingly, responsibility should be sought. Social networks are only in third place, because their use also depends on parents and schools.
At first glance, smartphones in first grade don't necessarily lead to guns in seventh grade. But one already is!
And a uniformed policeman with a gun in the school yard - neither at first glance, nor at any child's glance - does not suggest a peaceful resolution of student disputes.
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Wednesday, May 10 - The spotlight last night was for a clean high five...
Two-hour supplementary classes for students, parents and teachers...
Especially for journalists who, despite tragic warnings, do not understand that the police and not the media are responsible for recording every case of peer violence...
Even our children are not resistant to fame through the covers...
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