Montenegro is a civil state and what we tried to explain to you earlier, and what we are trying to explain to you today - the foundations of civil, multi-ethnic Montenegro are solid and unbreakable. Montenegro will be, as it was, a civil state, not a state of the people, but a state of its citizens, said the head of the DPS parliamentary club, Andrija Nikolić, on the occasion of today's published results of the census related to the nationality of the population.
Nikolić recalled the expectations communicated by the members of the former Democratic Front - that the citizens of the Serbian national corps would be the majority and that over 50 percent of the citizens would declare that they speak the Serbian language.
He said that for a civil state it is not important to count how many people there are and who has more and who has less, and emphasized that the results of the census show that there was no discrimination and stigmatization of individual peoples, because the results are almost the same as in 2011.
"I remembered one of Mr. Đurović's discussions at the end of 2023 regarding the organization of the census. Then he said: 'I know that the Serbian national corps is now the majority and that over 50 percent of citizens will declare that they speak the Serbian language, which is a condition for amending the Constitution. ', Dejan Đurović from the DF stated at the end of 2023. If it is the same Dejan Đurović, I don't know, maybe there is someone else that we don't know? I think it is less important for the entire Montenegrin public, especially in the civil state, counting who has more, who has less, who used to have more, who used to have less drastically changed, because I will remind the citizens of Montenegro, and with that I end this discussion, in 2003, at the population census in Montenegro, in anticipation of the referendum, in Montenegro, 33 percent of citizens declared themselves as Serbs, in 2011, there were 29 percent, today 32,9 percent of them. Therefore, we are moving towards a radius, which implies a certain modification in the national declaration, but not so drastic, as to establish that once that declaration was unfree, discriminatory or under certain pressures".
In a polemic with former DF deputy Dragan Bojović, Nikolić cited examples that, as he said, "deny the theory of this political entity that members of the Serbian people are discriminated against."
"Mr. Bojović, your and my perception of whether there was discrimination during the previous government is completely different. Numerous colleagues from your parliamentary benches, from state institutions, who found jobs in state enterprises in the state administration, in Clinical - the hospital center, at the University of Montenegro and at many other points, for which you claim that it was not possible for someone of Serbian nationality to stay there Where did Mrs. Vesna Bratić, as a professor of the University of Montenegro, come from during that terrible court of the authorities? some references that recommended them to get a job, but they obviously also had references to be managers in certain institutions. of health, both in hospitals and at UCG, that someone defended those people and tied shackles on their hands. So, I hope, we have finished on that topic," NIkolić concluded.
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