Friday, April 11 - It was exactly 257 years ago... Šćepan Mali, who is remembered by history as a false emperor, came to Cetinje for the first time on April 11, 1768...
Two years earlier, he had arrived in Montenegro as a herbalist. Despite this, the Montenegrins, believing him to be the Russian Tsar, entrusted him with the treatment of the state...
He was unable to completely cure it, but he did everything he could to legalize it and modernize it.
He reconciled feuding Montenegrin tribes, suppressed blood feuds with strict punishments, and formed the first permanent court composed of tribal elders...
He successfully began road construction and completed the census...
Unfortunately, he was killed on the orders of the Turkish Pasha Mahmud Bušatlija...
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Saturday, April 12 - Two and a half centuries later, Montenegro not only has a false state government, but almost all of its institutions are identical.
True, there are some important differences...
To start from the end, we are on such good terms with the Turkish Pasha that there is no mention of beheading Montenegrins. I would not mention the Istanbul ones on this occasion...
Another difference is that the leader who now leads domestic and foreign policy was not previously involved in herbalism, but in cryptocurrencies.
Which brings us to the same conclusion, because neither business is regulated by law...
However, in the last two years, the grassroots have had a drastic advantage, due to vote buying with money that was used for medical treatment before the "Europe Never" program.
I'm late, but I have to mention another shortcoming compared to the time of Šćepan the Younger.
The current ruler is not even trying to make the state legal, to introduce justice into the courts, to suppress party vendettas, and he doesn't seem to be doing well with road construction either...
He only managed to complete the census and two billion in loans...
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Sunday, April 13 - Another decisive battle ended in Nikšić today, in which the victors once again defeated Montenegro. Not only this democratic one, but also the two from the era of Comrade Tito and King Nikola...
I also dug up these two, there were no democratic elections in their time...
No, but there was something else, especially during the reign of the former...
The construction of the city, with all its schools, theaters and cultural centers...
And village roads and regional elementary school departments and branch health centers...
And the production plants that could pay for all of that well...
And then the people of Nikšić rose up for a hunger rally...
And together with the rest of Montenegro, they started an endemic business, the mass breeding of locusts that devastated everything...
But, let them be spared economic and political ruin in the democratic destruction of humanity... There is no other name for what has been happening not only in this election campaign, but in all local and national elections over the past three and a half decades...
And now I have to apologize to all the portals, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. It's not about them, it's about the people who in the first thirty years didn't have the courage to say what they think...
In the last five, their sincerity really came out...
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Monday, April 14 - Since last night I've been glued to the TV, listening to the analyses of analysts, politicians and journalists. And again, as after all elections since 1990, I'm amazed at the astonishment of the first and third parties over the victory of just such others...
It's as if they enter parliaments by force and not by the will of the voters. And that's free, the last election theft happened back in 1996...
There have been and will be frauds, but those who - in the presence of more than two hundred media outlets - allow themselves to be deceived are no longer for political analysis, but for some other analysis...
That's why the aggregate result of these local elections is the same as the national elections. And not just those from two years ago, but also thirty-two or three, when Montenegro was governed by a single party mastodon.
After the breakup, another endemic phenomenon occurred: that by dividing, one becomes stronger...
The sum of populism and nationalism of DPS and SNP in the late 84,49s was XNUMX percent.
Yesterday in Nikšić, when the votes of the successors of their policies were added up, that election result was surpassed - DPS, ZBNK, PES and DCG reached 89,58 percent...
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Tuesday, April 15 - Opponents of the dangerous combination of populism and nationalism, from the civic bloc that is not worthy of participating in the aforementioned war, passed as the Liberal Alliance in 1998 - 6,3 percent...
I was reminded of that one glimmer of hope from the 1990s by the song "Perpera", written that very year, performed with a guitar at a pre-election rally of Ura...
And don't, no, grieve/ a new morning will dawn/ a new day in a thousand colors... I first heard it in Cetinje, on a disastrous election night in the late nineties...
Despite the disappointment, I still hoped at the time that the support for DPS of 48,87 percent and SNP of 35,62 percent meant only a temporary defeat for Montenegro.
It didn't mean anything, but instead of a detailed factual description, for this occasion I choose a short story by the creator of the verses "Goro moja":
- At the Song of the Mediterranean, the biggest Montenegrin in the jury voted against it, so I knew right away that the song was good. When someone from our country is against something from our country, then it's a masterpiece - he simply explained the essence of the complicated problem.
Not (just) this one at the festival...
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Wednesday, April 16 - The answer to the question of why adult citizens of Nikšić voted against civic parties even after the civic state came of age is simple.
Because, both in that city and in the rest of the country, there is a terrible lack of civic awareness.
And even the elementary one, which began to spread throughout Europe during the time of Stephen the Younger... And it implies the fight for freedom, justice and equality for all, not just ours.
Unfortunately, every election here is a repeat of the 1990s.
- This government loves this kind of people, this people love this kind of government, who is the URA to spoil this idyll - I slightly reworked, in the first post after the vote in Nikšić, Slavko Perović's message regarding the freezing of the work of the LSCG...
Finally, so as not to break the tradition of quoting myself, I'm copying instructions for all future elections to my kids from both parties:
- Everyone join hands, throw away these red and Crusader flags, and throughout Nikšić, in unison: Down with Dritan, you traitorous scoundrel! And be sure to print two or three hundred copies of the basic agreement, and organize burnings at city intersections and in villages. Let's see how many votes there will be...
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Thursday, April 17 - In the parliamentary committee for education, science and culture, fortunately, there were not enough votes to introduce religious education in state schools...
At the plenary session, the best factual description of instilling faith in God from a young age was given by the Minister of Health and Welfare, Vojislav Šimun.
Therefore, my friends, only God can help the seriously ill if they believe that "for starters, it is important to point out that multi-year waiting lists are almost non-existent."
For this reason, I sincerely regret that the good doctor Nermin Abdić failed to ask another supplementary question, but not from the field of health, but from linguistics:
- Does the minister know that "almost" does not only have an adverbial meaning?
With the explanation that this word, as an exclamation, means finished, the end...
And - goodbye!
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