Friday, September 1 - The birthday of Vijesti and the holiday of free journalism. On that first day of September 1997, Montenegro got the opportunity for the first time to hear its other side daily, not just weekly, through Monitor and Liberal.
And the full truth!
It is difficult today, in the presence of three daily newspapers, a dozen television stations and a hundred or so portals, to explain how important the missionary role of Vijesti was back then among readers who for years only had access to the ossified truth of the unique DPS.
Despite that, the first thing I remember on the first of September is not the mission of freedom, but the beating of Željko Ivanović on the tenth anniversary of Vijesta. And especially the "echoes and reactions" after that beating in Pobjeda.
I couldn't remain silent, and I didn't know how to react because I was forbidden not only to come to work but also to enter the building.
My best student made an effort to make my protest about the gruesome attack on a colleague, whom I only knew by sight at the time, reach Victory. Who, by the way, was so satisfied with his freedom in Pobjeda that he transferred to ANB a few years later.
We packed my letter in a dozen envelopes, which he handed to all members of the collegium individually.
That letter was, in fact, a response to a frightening text from a cave "sleeper". Who, as I wrote at the time, was "awakened by Victory to call for the lynching of the three still unbeaten owners of Vijesta". And, after the beating, "accused Željko Ivanović of being protected by the udba, while he was still blue from her last protection"...
Uh, I know it's not very appropriate that on the occasion of the Vijesti holiday, I'm quoting myself, but I'm still under the impression of Željko's unusually emotional story from Tuesday...
Then I remembered this letter from September 8, 2007.
And questions to colleagues: "What will you do with yourself, your conscience and your children if Mira Marković's Easter is resurrected in Montenegro and one of these journalists on the wanted list is killed..."
And sub-questions: "Really, do you know what you published? If you don't, take the sets of newspapers from 1990, '91 and '92. Then every word in Pobjeda meant a bullet to an innocent man... God forbid that your colleagues a hair from your head is missing from your warrant..."
And much more was missing, because - the last quote - "police officers allegedly started an extensive investigation into the beating, even though it was obvious that the investigation should start in - the police"...
It was not started, which was bad for Željko.
It was good that, after that, it was clear to everyone who was behind all the other attacks on the founders, editors and journalists of Vijesti, from physical to feuilleton...
So much from me for the 26th anniversary of Vijesti, although it didn't really look like a congratulation...
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Saturday, September 2 - Even what former(?) mentor Zdravko Krivokapić is doing to his favorite Milojko Spajić doesn't really look like support, but the media still reports his every post.
I feel a little short of publicly apologizing to the president, because the main obstacle to the formation of a stable government seems to be not him, but the one who introduced him to politics.
Even the DPS does not offer such resistance to the entry of the Frontists into the executive power.
Since he came back from a one-year hiatus, Krivokapić does not stop but increases the gas as soon as he notices that PES and DF have slowed down a bit.
- During the duration of the affectionately called adventurism - the minority government, the then DF did not protest, did not wave the story that the Serbs were left out of the government, did not lead a campaign of personal discredit, nor did he share the phone numbers of deputies who intended to vote for the 43rd government together with the DPS -om. The depth silenced them, and the threats of road blockades remained at the level of a bluff - he gave himself the right to intervene in the negotiations. To help the mandate? Anyway, if he had at least a little sympathy for his former favorite, he wouldn't have publicly beaten him like this.
The media also retaliates, but not only to the president, but to everyone who wants the government to be formed as soon as possible, by zealously reporting every announcement of the former prime minister.
And this despite the fact that the right of one citizen to comment on the negotiations on the Government is nothing more than the same right of the remaining 542.457 adult citizens of Montenegro.
But he was the prime minister? Yes, but Duško Marković was also prime minister, so the journalists didn't go out of their way to find out where he was.
How lucky that Krivokapić didn't listen either, when every statement he made is equally true.
Because the minority government is not "charitably called adventurism", but the only government that was possible in the general chaos caused by the failed president of the "experts"...
If anyone else could have collected 41 votes of support then, Dritan Abazović would certainly not have wanted to be the mandate holder.
It is also not true that DF "didn't protest too much" then. He entertained us about misery not only at the end of winter with the blockade of roads before the formation of the Government, but also with block strikes in the Assembly and outside it until the Transfiguration and its demolition.
DF was hiding so much for almost half a year, that one of its leaders, Andrija Mandić, had to apologize on the night of the shooting.
It was not DF that led a personal discrediting campaign - Zdravko Krivokapić complains to the coalition that he discredited as soon as it promoted him, as an anonymous professor, first to the liberator of Montenegro and then to the prime minister.
- Everyone is afraid of the promise of 450 euro minimum pension, 1.000 euro average salary, seven hours of work a day, that is, Miki's success and the strengthening of PES - he underestimated the intelligence of at least half of Montenegro.
No one is afraid of that promise, but the way of its fulfillment and the repetition of the Europe never program.
When, due to votes for the future party, pensions were drastically increased only for the poor. And at least 50.000 retired educators, doctors, journalists, engineers... honored with the traditional DPS adjustment of one or two percent.
Those eight percent from June arrived after food prices rose from 50 to 100 percent.
They are also afraid of spilling over from empty to empty, like the one when the minimum wage was increased by canceling the contribution to health care.
And a repeat increase by canceling contributions to the PIO Fund.
And replays of the crypto-debt of 700 million that remained encrypted, as well as that collaboration with crypto-leader Do Kwon.
And more than anything, they fear that the incumbent, if he succeeds in becoming prime minister, will continue to take seriously everything his mentor says.
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Sunday, September 3 - The depth silenced them - said Krivokapić, forgetting that this silencing of the DF happened during his mandate.
One of those depths not only surfaced as illegal, but shook Pljevlja for days. He was close to causing a schism in the church, thanks to which he rose to the top of the state.
The defense of the director of the coal mine, who was elected a year before the election of the minority government, showed how the staff of the now concerned former prime minister took care of that country.
"Our brother Milan Lekić has been working tirelessly for decades in the interest of his Church and his people. He actively supported non-civil engineering projects throughout our diocese and throughout Serbia...
It is our duty, as the spiritual shepherd of these regions, to support the man who participated in the construction of many temples of God...
With God's help, he will remain in the position to which he was elected by the will of the people to continue faithfully serving his Church and his people.
We must not stop that aspiration."
It was interrupted, despite these arguments of Bishop Athanasius of Mileševo.
Which, more argumentatively than the Labor Inspection, shows how concerned the former prime minister and his staff were for the good of the state.
All that remains is for, after the state, the church inspection to implement the decision of the Holy Synod that bishops "in case of interference in party affairs will inevitably bear the canonical consequences".
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Monday, September 4 - During his visit to Croatia, President of Montenegro Jakov Milatović felt the consequences of DPS's anti-Montenegrin and Greater Serbian policy from the XNUMXs.
And he faced them with dignity and rationality, as a statesman with drastically longer experience than three and a half months.
There is no hope that the DPS will face its war performance before it falls to that anti-war 6,3 percent.
Three decades after the so-called of the war for peace, that party completely immersed itself in its most effective project, the Collective aMNEsia.
So much so that he objected to Jakov Milatović, who was five years old at the beginning of that war, because of the war leader Momir Bulatović.
And so suggestive, as if Bulatović was the founder of PES and not DPS.
And the president of PES, not DPS.
And the first President of Montenegro thanks to the votes of PES and not DPS.
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Tuesday, September 5 - The first optimistic news about the formation of the Government came from the Bosniak Party. According to unofficial information from TV Vijesti, although negotiations are still ongoing, the agreement is 99 percent reached.
I believe, but not because of sympathy for Vijesti.
But because, since the beginning of the negotiations, BS has been better informed about their epilogue than PES.
When, three weeks ago, its leader Ervin Ibrahimović announced that the parties of Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević could not enter the executive power, many did not believe him.
Five days later, this was officially confirmed by PES leader Milojko Spajić.
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Wednesday, September 6 - This time the representative was a little faster. He confirmed that the negotiations are at the very end only a day after BS.
It would have been good news, if it hadn't been followed by bad news.
The leader of the Democrats, Aleksa Bečić, said that he would not allow the crucial 41st vote for him to be cast by a deputy from the DPS coalition list.
I wouldn't either, but that has nothing to do with my sympathy for Bečić.
But with the stability of the future Government, after the experience with the two ministers from the current one.
Who did a perfect job for DPS, even though they were not officially obliged to do so like Mehmet Zenka...
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Thursday, September 7 - First good news today: Jakov Milatović and Milojko Spajić met late last night.
Finally, what does bad sound like?
Looks like they're really late...
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