Responsibility is not only a matter of law, responsibility is an ethical feeling for the community, and we have been living without that component for thirty years, said Dritan Abazović, president of the URA Civic Movement at the round table "Values for the future - Do we have responsibility in public action?".
The round table is held as part of the project "Social Dialogue - Together to a Solution!", organized by the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIN), the Citizens' Association CIVIS, the Citizens' Movement URA and the Center for Civil Liberties CEGAS.
The leader of URA said that "the main thing for the question of responsibility is the feeling of freedom, and that there is no responsibility in Montenegro because there is not enough freedom."
"Responsibility is something that is lacking, especially in terms of public action, and we live without criminal, political, moral, let alone metaphysical responsibility in Montenegro," said Abazović.
"Envelope, Tin, Solana, many privatizations, highway interchange, Ramada, Ćehotina, narcotics in the school ship Jadran, Tara... Has anyone suffered the consequences of these affairs, has anyone resigned due to responsibility. Citizens took to the streets because of "Envelope" and they fulfilled their responsibility. Did Migo Stijepović resign? Did the Minister of Internal Affairs resign because of "Limenka", Abazović asked.
He said that even the system of symbolic sacrifice has not taken root in Montenegro.
"The example of Austria - after 12:24 the vice chancellor resigned after the disclosed affair, after XNUMX:XNUMX the government fell. That way, Austria immediately closed the case. We in Montenegro must develop the component of responsibility and make it achievable," concluded Abazović.
Milka Tadić-Mijović, president of the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIN), said that when Montenegro is a country where the rule of law rules, then it will be a responsible society.
"The country just seems to be falling deeper in that respect. "On the stage, we have the victory of the violence of the powerful over the law - the most recent example is the case of Vesna Medenica and her unconstitutional election as president of the Supreme Court for the third time," Tadić-Mijović assessed.
She also said that institutions are empty shells in which they sit obediently, and that it is the duty of all to gather around one goal - change.
Srđan Pavićević, president of the Citizens' Association CIVIS, said that the time has come to get out of the feeling of comfort and to open up topics that are not illuminated and are sitting somewhere in the closet.
"It is extremely hypocritical to consider that what is happening to us is the result of one side and is also happening because of the other." At this moment, the task of the public is to react, especially intellectuals. In the previous period, a free intellectual was obliged to appear and raise his voice, and I am especially fascinated that all this time there were no young student intellectuals who needed to raise their voices", said Pavićević.
He also said that cultural and social values are the coordinates of our life and that without them there is neither culture nor society.
"Without limits, without control, and without remorse, there is no responsibility. Cultural values are the identity card of a space. When social values falter, they open up a risky and large space dominated by people, phenomena that are not under any control. We begin to live in a different world. Social values are misused, make-up and become their opposite. There is no equality, society retreats and there is apathy, lethargy, cynicism and degradation and decadence of society," concluded Pavićević.
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