The posthumous awarding of the highest state order and the erection of a monument to Amfilohije Radović is a continuation of historical revisionism and aims to mask the truth about the disastrous five-year governance of Montenegro, said Andrija Nikolić, head of the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS).
"The government, which was formed under the auspices of the Serbian Orthodox Church, has lost all authority, and now it occurred to it to use the figure of Amfilohije Radović to divert focus from its own incompetence and the key problems that burden society," Nikolić told the MINA agency.
He added that the government is pandering to the electorate because they believe it is still politically profitable to worship the cult of Amfilohije Radović, even though, as he stated, they themselves believe that his legacy is controversial and unacceptable.
"Instead of strengthening unity in the country, the President of Montenegro and the Government of Montenegro have chosen to normalize extreme nationalism and deepen divisions. This is a bad message for all people of civic orientation," said Nikolić.
He said that Amfilohije, while alive, was criticized for xenophobic, homophobic and nationalistic statements, and especially for supporting the great-state war policy of the 1990s, denying the genocide in Srebrenica and glorifying war criminals.
"However, the absurdity of today's Montenegro is that the highest Montenegrin state order and monument should be awarded to someone who denied Montenegrins as a nation," Nikolić concluded.
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