Thursday, February 27 - Distinguished citizens, fellow MPs, we are continuing the session of the third extraordinary session in 2025. We are moving on to the debate on amendments to the Law on Official Statistics and the System of Official Statistics...
Here is the procedure, the floor is given to the deputy...
Thank you for being fair regarding the length of the address...
The procedure and you, here you go...
It is not up to us to comment on court rulings...
We move on to the search...
Dear readers, this is how the continuation of the session of the Parliament of Montenegro began yesterday...
Upside down, just like this diary, except the consequences are drastically different...
Because the day before the parliamentary session, Ljubiša Mrdak was killed for the second time.
He was first shot at three and a half years ago by criminals who were beyond the reach of justice.
This time, not only him, but also his family, relatives and friends, were targeted by the Montenegrin judiciary, which has been unable to reach the hand of justice for three and a half decades...
And it really should have been a shoe in the shoe instead of a cheek, so that the day after driving a hawthorn stake into the long-defunct rule of law, one could deal with statistics, investment funds, credit institutions and financial conglomerates...
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Wednesday, February 26 - It was the greatest crime committed against an innocent citizen by the so-called rule of law, ever since the shameful verdict against train driver Slobodan Drobnjak for the Bioča accident...
- I have never had a more difficult moment in my life knowing that I could do nothing and that a tragedy would happen. I would never forgive myself if I had not jumped on the train and tried to stop it. I did everything as if my children were on the train - Drobnjak spoke for the first time on the 19th anniversary of the state crime for which he was sentenced to six years in prison...
If he could speak, Ljubiša Mrdak would surely say that he would not forgive himself if he did not do everything to stop the criminals...
That is why it is a state crime that those who sentenced him to death for trying to protect the money of Nikšić pensioners are at large.
And he could, like many others, have played dead and let the thieves do what they wanted...
Unfortunately, he didn't do it...
It is not up to us to comment on court rulings, so the remains of other Montenegrin institutions will also be defended before the court of the public...
Trying to cover up their corruption, incompetence, cowardice...
And a lack of humanity, above all.
And that's why there are no harsh enough words for what the Speaker of Parliament did...
Instead of, as the head of the legislative branch, raising his voice in defense of the twice-murdered humanist and hero Ljubiša Mrdak and worrying about the fate of his own country with such a judiciary, he worries about the fate of the alive and healthy Milorad Dodik and the same voting rights in the entity of the neighboring state...
- The verdict against the President of Republika Srpska is an unnecessary precedent that fundamentally represents an anti-democratic act. (...) The rights of President Dodik are endangered by this action - Mandić announced two hours after the verdict was announced in Sarajevo...
About justice for Ljubiša Mrdak and the rights of his family - not a word...
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Tuesday, February 25 - All those accused of the murder of Ljubiša Mrdak and the robbery of the post office in Nikšić have been acquitted of charges, there is one and only sentence that everyone can consider true - the family, the citizens, the court and the prosecution.
There are many truths about everything else, and they differ from each other.
What is true in the verdict and what is true in the prosecution's response, we will perhaps find out one day when the entire judiciary is freed from corrupt, unprofessional, and ignorant judges and prosecutors.
Until then, there will be a reasonable suspicion that - one of the serdars is lying...
- From such an indictment, it cannot be determined who fired the fatal shots, the trial chamber was faced with a fait accompli because it had to judge based on such an indictment - is part of the judge's explanation of the verdict.
Why did the court accept such an indictment, there is no explanation for that...
Despite the court's assessment that "in some segments, the claims of the Higher State Prosecutor's Office remained at the level of grounds for suspicion, and in others at the level of indications or not even at that."
And that "not even dozens of hours of video footage taken from numerous video surveillance systems have contributed to the investigation, that none of the footage shows the accused with certainty and unambiguously, nor can the white Nissan Qashqai vehicle be seen with certainty in some of them."
And that "the Council of Judges in the court proceedings was forced to conduct an investigation"...
Neither was it forced, nor did it conduct an investigation, nor did the High Court present any evidence independently, the High State Prosecutor's Office responded to the High Court...
And reminded that the panel of that very court confirmed the indictment two and a half years ago...
And that the court, based on such and such an indictment, extended the defendants' detention throughout the entire proceedings precisely because there was a reasonable suspicion that they had committed the criminal offense that the prosecution had charged them with...
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Monday, February 24 - Prime Minister Milojko Spajić could be charged with the prolonged embarrassment of Montenegro...
The last time he did so was by calling the analysis of the Faculty of Economics shameful due to alleged accusations against the Europe Now program...
And publicly threatened economists at the oldest Montenegrin higher education institution:
- I'll talk to the people who did it because it's a complete lie!
I hope it never occurs to them that "those people" would allow him to do that.
First of all, because of the vocabulary unworthy of a prime minister...
And because the very claim that the above-mentioned analysis even mentions "Europe Now" is false.
It is also a lie that the European Commission and the World Bank never claimed that this program would affect inflation.
The EC report for 2022, the year when "Europe Now 1" came into force, states that, in addition to the global impact, inflation in Montenegro was also affected by "a large increase in wages caused by domestic policy."
The same thing is written, only slightly differently, in the report published in November last year...
- The "Europe Now 2" program aims to increase disposable income by increasing the minimum wage and reducing pension contributions. These measures will support GDP growth in 2025, but will also contribute to increasing inflation - the EC stated.
The World Bank not only suspected both programs of increasing inflation, but also ranked them on that basis:
- "Europe Now 2" will have an impact on inflation, but it will be smaller than the impact of "Europe Now 1".
So, what do we do with the prime minister now?
Obviously nothing, for a hundred euros more, most people have long forgotten the lies about Serbian citizenship, the Korean king of crypto-currencies, the apartment of their common child, the increase in all pensions...
Not only that, it has also been forgotten that Prime Minister Spajić's final truth was seen back when he was just a minister, in the first election hashtag that introduced vote buying into legal channels...
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Sunday, February 23 - At the local level, in Šavnik, the rule of law has been dying for 854 days.
The legislative branch is playing dead...
The executive is not pretending, she is really completely incompetent...
And not only to end the Šavnik saga, which is mostly used as a mockery by the rest of Montenegro...
And it all started on October 23, 2022, when local elections were held in 14 municipalities. And they were completed regularly in each of them except for Šavnik...
Thanks to the visit of voters from other cities, a small, poor town long forgotten by the state has become the capital of electoral tourism...
Opposition voters, instead of protests, reacted with violence... Despite the fact that their parties were not averse to imported votes either...
The fact that electoral laws and constitutional norms had been violated was only taken seriously by the state authorities two and a half years later. When the local parliament, constituted almost seven years ago, elected a new/old mayor...
Unconstitutional and illegal, state officials claim...
For the benefit of the citizens, both the elected president and the councilors who elected him explain.
With the promise that the mandate will last only until conditions are created for the people of Šavnica to exercise their constitutional right to elect local government...
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Saturday, February 22 - How and when these conditions will be created, is not known even by the Constitutional Court, which has declared itself incompetent to initiate proceedings to decide on election disputes.
Voters, candidates for councilors, and those submitting electoral lists can initiate it, but none of them have done so...
For what reason? Well, that has not yet been clarified, it could be due to the traditional efficiency of the Constitutional Court, for whose decision they would have to wait another 854 days...
Even if the question of constitutionality is answered on time, the (il)legality of the election of the municipal president remains questionable,
According to the Law on Local Self-Government, the term of office of councilors lasts four years.
According to the Law on the Election of Councilors and Representatives, however, their mandate ends only on the day the mandates of newly elected representatives in local parliaments are confirmed.
The state parliament could harmonize the laws, and do it in one day...
No, because both his boss and his majority intend to devote the rest of his term - slightly shorter than 854 days - to more important items on the daily, monthly and annual agenda...
First, the threatened electoral rights of voters in the neighboring country and the political future of Milorad Dodik, the biggest democrat in the Balkans after Aleksandar Vučić...
Secondly, the St. Simeon litanies in praise of the occupier who - before dedicating himself to God - was very dedicated to the cruel destruction of Svači, Ulcinj, Bar and Shkodra, as well as the killing of their inhabitants...
Third, the restoration of the Chapel of the King of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, dual citizenship for Serbian citizens and a dual official language in the home country...
Montenegro, if everyone still considers it the motherland...
P.S. And what will happen to Savnik? Well, the ruling coalition will organize five-day protests there... Against themselves, because the entrance to the city will be blocked not only because of the decisions of the "criminal" local government, but also because of the "passivity of the current executive and legislative authorities."
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