07.00 hours - What a day, my writing from Friday is failing because only last Wednesday can fit in today's diary. A day of political tricks that only the so-called the thirty-August government.
In which only the subjects of such a government can believe...
Of course, without Ura, which announced that - together with PzPG - today it will present a platform for negotiations...
Despite that announcement, I sincerely hope that this September twenty-ninth government in Podgorica will also be formed - without Ura...
Where did I get that from? Well, from experience, it is not the first time that a civil movement gets the status of ace in the balance.
The Liberal Alliance and the Movement for Change and the United Reform Action were in that ungrateful position at one time, and that was in critical political circumstances...
And each time, their leaders decided to give priority to the future of Montenegrin society and the state, sacrificing the future of their parties and their political careers...
Slavko Perović did it at the beginning of this century, Nebojša Medojević a decade later, and Dritan Abazović three years ago.
The leaders of all other parties, except for those who led the parties of minority nations, were - some and others - ready to sacrifice Montenegro for their own and the party's future...
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10.00 hours - Wow, what kind of comments the apostle made on August 30th... They are somewhat offensive, but their logic is equal to the one with which the president of the apostolic government moved hills and mountains...
It is a miracle that willpower when the defenders of the electoral will shout in unison that Luka Rakčević will not be the mayor with two mandates...
If we're being honest, I wouldn't wish something like that on an executioner, let alone a favorite alderman, except that my reasons are of a humane nature...
I really don't understand why ZBCG, PES and DCG are doing this...
My dears, if we are going by the will of the election, then the mayor of Podgorica should be Nermin Abdić, and the holder of power - DPS...
If they don't want such an epilogue, then the choice is - either Luka Rakčević or new elections...
In order for PES and DCG to pass in those elections, they can perform that calculation without a calculator, by tracking the percentages of their accelerated free fall...
But ZBCG would be even stronger?
Possibly, because every day his voters look more and more like their leader Andrija Mandić in every respect, who only cares about getting the ball rolling. So where it broke, it broke...
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11.31 hours - In the Assembly, there was a row... Its president - better to say theirs, because Andrija Mandić has been presiding over both the state parliament and the state row for 394 days - hung a new logo with the Zetska banovina building on the wall...
The deputies of the DPS covered it with blue stickers.
And let them, he really was the first among equals to go beyond every measure in humiliating the state for an extended period of time...
It's bad that they also did something similar, albeit indirectly...
On the stickers they used to cover the logo with the aforementioned building, the Parliament of Montenegro was written only in Latin...
Why not in Cyrillic, I'm not smart... Only my memory tells me that it's not their first time...
Renunciation of the Cyrillic alphabet, all while fighting for a sovereign, independent and internationally recognized Montenegro, began in 2006...
Nothing provoked and nothing justified, because it is a letter that is (also) Montenegrin.
Cyrillic is also Oktoih's first vowel, the first Montenegrin and South Slavic book printed in Obod only 39 years after the first book in the world.
Neither Njegoš, nor Radovan Zogović, nor Jevrem Brković, nor Momir M. Marković, nor Ratko Vujošević, nor any Montenegrin writer who deserved historical memory were ashamed of Ćirilica...
Not to dwell on the past, Oskar Huter's explanation that covering the logo in the Assembly hall was a "civilized reaction against the uncivilized behavior of Andrija Mandić" was not bad...
Recently, almost all the reactions of the DPS's rejuvenated parliamentary club to the offensive actions of the authorities have been good...
However, it is not at all good that there is no adequate response to the uncivilized and anti-Montenegrin behavior of their own party in the recent past, even after four years...
Covering the Banovina logo was a real opportunity to protect themselves not only from the return of Montenegro to the status of Banovina from 1921 in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
But also since the resumption of that status in 1992, when Montenegro was transformed into the 27th electoral unit of the Republic of Serbia...
And from all three leaders who deserve such a status, not just two...
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12.48 hours - It would be professional, and, by God, humane, if the Vice-President of the Assembly Zdenka Popović distanced herself from today's statement, made in connection with the accusation that she spent more than three thousand euros on fuel for the year...
Okay, it's not bad to hear that she comes to work on foot or by taxi, that she doesn't use the parliament's official car, that she urgently requested an internal control from the parliamentary service...
But what she said about the media was - disastrous...
- I should not have been on the pillar of shame without the media simultaneously asking me if the information was correct and asking to see where I spent three thousand two hundred euros - said Popović at the beginning of the parliamentary session.
On the pole of shame? Well, if writing about the spending of citizens' money is putting them on a pillar of shame, then hundreds and hundreds of government officials have been on that pillar for decades.
Because their salaries, fees, daily wages and every euro received must be made available to the public.
The Dana portal received information about her 3.124 euros for fuel from the Parliament of Montenegro.
If they were to check the official data that the state, as an employer, provides about the employee, it would be putting the legislative power of that state on the pillar of shame...
If that government made a mistake about MP Popović, let them discuss it among themselves.
And it will certainly be published, not only on one portal...
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13.50 hours - What Andrija Mandić said, after covering the logo, should not have been published by a single media...
And not only that, it would be desirable if in the future any mockery of him with Montenegro would remain within the circle of the family.
And not because of the defense of the state, but its citizens who - despite his extraordinary efforts - consider Montenegro their homeland.
- This logo testifies to the duration of Montenegro - said the pretender to the title of statesman, who takes the symbol of state power - the symbol of the disappearance of that state.
And as a tradition of Montenegro, the building in which she was buried is celebrated.
And to that "country of great successful people that has a great European future" in patriotic enthusiasm, he predicts a repeat - of Banovin status.
Where does Andrija Mandić get the right to involve Albanians in this chauvinistic farce, I hope Nik Đeljošaj will answer him.
And which other "indigenous national communities", apart from the Albanian one, will he respect?
Well, I can answer that too...
Montenegrins, if he ever falls again...
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16.17 hours - Minister of Defense Dragan Krapović decided, quite by accident, to be in this diary right after the President of the Assembly Andrija Mandić.
Due to the minuteness of the publication of the statement, comparing them - it seemed far away - does not occur to me...
In truth, if he had thought about it a bit, it would not have occurred to Minister Krapović to make a statement worthy of Mandić regarding the scandal in Kosovo.
- During the Orthodox celebration in the Visoki Dečani monastery, the Kosovo police arrested three people on whose vehicle, with Montenegrin plates, they found the inscription "Kosovo is Serbia" - the media from that country, as well as from two neighboring ones, reported.
What is scandalous here is that in Kosovo they are used to provocateurs coming from their neighborhood who do not recognize the youngest Balkan state...
It would be nothing if two of those three were not members of the Army of Montenegro.
And if our military minister had not said what he did:
- According to my knowledge and the assessments of their elders, they are good and exemplary members of the Army.
That "good and exemplary" soldiers must not insult the neighboring country, their own, or any other country, the relevant minister must know that first of all.
And to immediately suspend them from work, otherwise the inscription on a private car will become an interstate problem.
He didn't do it, on the contrary.
- When it comes to this case, nothing will be done "over the knee" nor will anyone's head be "taken off", if someone expects such treatment. This may have been the practice in the previous period, but while I am the Minister of Defense, I will not allow such a thing - the minister was categorical.
Despite the fact that no one mentioned heads and knees, suspensions did.
He cannot remove them from their jobs because the Ministry has not yet received official information from Pristina?
It's possible, because we all received one from Podgorica, from the minister, that "good and exemplary members of the Army" are on sick leave...
Enough.
PS And who will get the power in Podgorica, no one knows yet. I don't even know if they are still optimistic about that in Ura. That's why I have no choice but to quote myself from March 2021, on the eve of the formation of the Government: "Montenegro has tried a coalition government of horns in a bag several times and had a bad time." That's why, my dear Catullus - I almost wrote Dritan - what you see failing, consider it failed. Better tonight than in the fall!”
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