Archpriest-Stavrophor Gojko Perović, rector of the Cetinje seminary, says that it is offer of the Government of Montenegro To the Metropolis of Montenegro and the Littoral (MCP) that the application of the Law on Freedom of Religion be temporarily suspended is disingenuous and unsustainable and that the liturgies will continue.
Commenting on Montenegrin Prime Minister Duško Marković's statement about what was offered to the MCP, he said that it was better that Marković had not even mentioned that conversation, because the offer he and President Milo Đukanović presented to the representatives of the Montenegrin Littoral Metropolitanate was "dishonest and unsustainable". reports the MCP website.
"The meeting that Marković spoke about today took place in an atmosphere that was inappropriate, and precisely because of this the Church did not want to go public with the details of the meeting and because of the very topic of the conversation," said Perović, adding that this is what Marković spoke only "at the tail end of the conversation".
Perović specified that at a meeting held a few days ago, the government offered the MCA to postpone the implementation of the law until the Constitutional Court of Montenegro and the Court in Strasbourg have declared on it.
"Marković would have to know that the Constitutional Court does not have any deadline for making a decision, that the executive power cannot mention a possible decision of the Constitutional Court as an element of some agreements, because the judicial power is probably separate and cannot work under pressure or dictated by anyone. We have an uncertain legal situation here. And when it comes to the Court in Strasbourg, it decides only when the law goes into effect, so that offer is contradictory", emphasized Perović.
He also, as reported by the MCP website, stated that it is abuse and misinformation of the public when it is said that the Church threatened the negotiations with the announcement of lithium.
"The negotiations are threatened by the fact that the government is already applying this law," said Perović.
When asked how the processions will be organized on Sunday, he said that, since the processions are an expression of the civil right to manifest opinions and the right to religious assembly, they should take place unhindered in a normal state.
"Regarding the registrations, specifically for this Sunday, many litia were not registered in time and according to the procedure, it should have been done on Tuesday. But that doesn't change anything. We will hold prayers at the temples where the processions have not been registered and approved," said Perović and added that "the form is not so important as the fact that the people are together again and that we are all together in prayer."
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