Ugh, what kind of Montenegrin is this... Three decades of historic silence about religion and nation does not last even three months after the election...
And it started really well, back in the spring...
Two election campaigns in a row, quiet and decent compared to the previous ones.
No monument to Pavlo Đurišić, no lamentation over the evil fate of the Serbian people and the church associated with it.
Without saving the state, without strengthening the Montenegrin national identity and related persons...
Unfortunately, only until the end of the summer... Since then, the specter of the census has been circling Montenegro...
Why?
I don't know, that should be asked of those parties who are against - otherwise already late, prescribed by law but also customary for a long time - the census of the population, households, apartments, etc...
The same question should be asked of their opponents, because this time they are turning the ordinary statistical work that is done at the beginning of every decade into the mobilization of the national-party army.
Because of the panic in both groups, I have a very close suspicion that the biggest drama is being made by those who want to hide something that has changed since the last census.
Either a change of nation, or a change of property status, or - both...
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For others who don't have these concerns, but have a tendency to trust their leaders more than their eyes, a brief reminder of the factory statistical settings...
What is a list?
Well, this question is answered by the profession:
It is a statistical action that aims to count the total population and collect data on key characteristics of the population.
First of all, about the place where the population mainly lives, about its age and gender, then about the level of education, economic activity and other important characteristics.
Also, the census collects information on the characteristics of the housing units in which the population lives, that is, on their equipment, type, age and other characteristics.
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Wasn't it enough? Okay, let's move on...
Why is the census important?
Because that's how you get a complete picture of the population and its characteristics.
And about the housing fund in the state.
The obtained data have multiple purposes, they are important both for defining and implementing government policies, as well as for scientific research and the business community, civil society and the general public.
For example, population density data is important for determining the location of new public institutions.
First of all, kindergartens, schools and hospitals, but also bus stops, shops, etc.
The total number of tenants, unemployed persons, then the number of residents who have moved away, is important for the creation of economic development policy.
And it is known that only economic development can permanently raise the standard of living of citizens.
Census data on the number of apartments, average age and type of fuel used for heating are important for energy policy planning, but on the other hand, for environmental impact assessment...
And so on...
And thanks to Gordana Radojević and Dragan Koprivica for "50 questions and answers about the population census in Montenegro".
That's the title of their document published back in January.
It is intended for citizens, but there is every chance that it should have been distributed to politicians first.
And give it another title...
"A Guide to Using Common Sense in the Case of a Census", sort of...
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The above-mentioned common sense says that, especially in an already too divided Montenegro, it is very dangerous to spread fear about the November data on the nation and religion.
Let's not lie anymore, the cause - more panic than logic - of the DPS's request to postpone or even boycott the census once again is a possible decrease in the number of Montenegrins.
And an equally possible increase in the number of Serbs is the cause - as unnecessary as it is precisely for the Serbs and offensive - the campaign to enforce Serbianness, which the ZBCG is carrying out with euphoria.
But two groups do it out of love for two peoples?
Whatever, out of sheer interest!
And that of group party and individual leadership...
Especially pronounced since the parties of less numerous peoples mostly gave up their unquestioning loyalty to the former government, which declared itself, without any support, as the protector of Montenegrins.
At the same time, a part of the former opposition, which considers itself - also unsubstantiated - to be the only protector of Serbs, saw in the cancellation of that loyalty the hope for future coalition rule...
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What DPS says:
- That the government cannot ensure the regular implementation of the census as the most important state job!
Why wouldn't she be able to, when she has already held regular state elections three times.
And created all the conditions for more than half a million residents to go to the polls.
And the census implies the arrival of slightly less than four thousand enumerators to those residents - on their feet...
- That, if the Government does not postpone the census, they will call for a boycott!
Bless them...
Well, with that boycott, only the number of Montenegrins will be drastically reduced.
That number, from the day it is announced by Monstat until the last day in 2034, will be the official statistical data of Eurostat.
So, also in 2030, when Montenegro is expected to join the European Union.
In which the Montenegrins, if they fall for the DPS's call for a boycott, will enter as a national minority.
- That the census should be postponed for a time when the political circumstances will be stable!
And for this treasure for us with them...
Those circumstances, not only political but also security, were stable in the spring of 1991.
When the census was held just one year after the Montenegrin state was overthrown in the street.
And from that street, the governor's trinity dedicated exclusively to the registration of reservists, on the eve of Montenegro's aggression against Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, was brought.
Everything with the census was fine even in the fall of 2003, when Montenegro and the rest of the Balkans were shaking from security after the assassination of the Prime Minister of Serbia...
- The census in November will not be regular because the Government is in a technical mandate?
Why wouldn't it be when the Constitution - whose authorship the DPS still prides itself on - obliges the Government to work for a full term even after losing confidence. The only thing he cannot do is to dissolve the Assembly...
- How will the census be organized in Budva when the mayor is in custody, or in Andrijevica, where the initiative to remove him was launched?
Just chill, thanks to DPS for this question.
The president of the municipality of Budva was also in custody in 2011...
And in Andrijevica, there was no shortage of initiatives to remove the president in any census year, after 1991, when it officially received the status of a municipality...
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And what do the parties that are still connected to ZBCG say?
- That this is the first free census in the history of Montenegro in which there will be no pressure on Serbs!
What does that mean? That the first one after the fall of the communist government was also unfree?
At that time, Montenegro was governed by the most Serbian government in its history. And in that census, the number of Serbs tripled, from 3,32 percent in 1981 to 9,34 percent in 1991.
- That on the eve of earlier censuses, Serbs were blackmailed with their business and life existence!
Is this realistic, and in those two decades, 1991 - 2011, their number tripled again. And reached 28,73 percent.
- That there will be many more Serbs in this census because the former regime carried out assimilation and demographic engineering!
There will be as many as there are, just like Montenegrins, Bosniaks, Albanians, Croats, Roma...
Regarding the aforementioned assimilation and demographic engineering during the rule of the former regime - just two facts.
At the time the DPS came to power, 19.407 Serbs lived in Montenegro.
Ten times more - 198.414 - were enumerated in 2003, when the DPS was strengthened due to preparations for the independence referendum.
I'm glad for that...
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So much for non-free censuses, blackmail and assimilation of Serbs in Montenegro during the rule of the former regime.
It's time to see what happened to the Montenegrins during that time...
Statistics show the tendency of their extinction during the rule of DPS for three decades.
If she had broken some more, the Montenegrins could be hand in hand with the aborigines... Well, once a Montenegrin oro, another time an aboriginal corroboree, as it usually happens with equals...
From 404.488 in 1981 - lest I raise tensions before the census by mentioning the year when there were 90,67 percent - in 2011, Montenegrins (s) fell to - 278.865.
In percentage, from 68,54 to 44,98...
Sorry about that...
However, it never occurs to me to blame the former regime for non-free censuses, blackmail, assimilation and demographic engineering.
That regime is to blame for many things, from the war for peace to endemic robbery and the same kind of corruption to the cocaine war...
But Montenegrins are to blame for this endemic extinction of Montenegrins - exclusively Montenegrins...
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