Journalist and writer Brano Mandić commented on the signing of the Fundamental Agreement between the Government of Montenegro and the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) on the website Normalize.me.
We transmit Mandić's comment integrally
The last time they hid a pop star in Villa Gorica, I was among the duped journalists at the entrance gate. If I'm not mistaken, the year was 2007, evening hours and a chorus of crickets, we sat on the curb and waited for someone to address us on behalf of the state. The adviser to the president at the time, Filip Vujanović, came out and sent us home.
Young Aleksandar Bogdanović, schooled in the party to lie, told us to our faces that there was no meeting, even though we knew that CPC bishop Mihailo was on the couch with his shameful host and SPC believer Vujanović, who escorted him to the back exit of the darkened mansion.
Today, when Bogdanović has already worn out five or six positions, been a minister, mayor, what not, he would like to continue his career of illiteracy built on lies, but he can't because of anger, because the SPC took politics out of his hands.
It seems to me that it is time to ask ourselves - what were you hoping for?
So, what were the comrades from DPS thinking when they were ashamed to even receive the priest of the Montenegrin church? The answer to this rhetorical question is clear - the SPC has been their closest associate for decades and the fact that in the last decade they were beaten, overthrown and sent to a corner, does not change the genesis of that complex political relationship.
The fundamental contract with the SPC, which was secretly signed today in the villa of Gorica in Podgorica, is only the crown of a decades-long political crisis in which the parties lost credibility and handed it over to their bearded colleagues. Yes, Twitter is on fire, the mountain is shaking and heroes-mice are being born who for decades remained silent on every concession of the DPS to what they now call the Church of Serbia. It's all moving to watch, but one kind of obvious more justice must not be silenced.
As a citizen, it is painful for me to have a prime minister who has to work in secret with popes, in the same way that I was ashamed to see a president who secretly receives a priest. But those are the choices of the long-forgotten Vujanović and the respected Prime Minister Abazović, who the other day lied to journalists like the old Bogdanović.
I tata ćemo sad?
Emotions and tears aside, what must be admitted is that the SPC in Montenegro has quite a number of "supporters", that is, that we have brought the society to the point where the mantle is recognized as a political figure of decisive influence. Instead of calling it the Church of Serbia and thus directly alienating hundreds of thousands of citizens-believers within your own country, instead of denying it a few percent of power and straining relations in the country to the point of breaking, you should beat the religious parapolitical structure legally and patiently in every time he violates the legal framework.
This fight is not for yatagans and it will take time, but until political parties change and are presented as institutions of trust, inclusion of citizens and liberating consciousness, until they reject methods of governance and manipulation based on whoring, people will trust the church, the black devil, anyone who offers any coherence in deception.
To conclude with the second Bogdanović - a country where the Minister of Culture reads Shakespeare's "King of Illyria" deserves to be ruled by popes. Nevertheless, I do not deny the right to DPS and other losers to change, and even if I have not seen much progress, I remain hopeful that this clergy-burlesque will die out, and the civic consciousness will find a way to define a more convincing policy and take over power from the pops.
As things stand now, dear politicians, bearded colleagues know the business better than you and they run the show.
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