Bogdanović: It doesn't bother Đukanović that Montenegro has three governments, but that it doesn't have the one, criminalized and family-run one

Milo Đukanović's greatest pain is not that Montenegro has three governments. His greatest pain is that it no longer has that one, private, criminalized, and family government, in which it was known who signed, who won, who kept quiet, who protected, and who carried the suitcases.

This was said by Boris Bogdanović, president of the Democratic Party of Montenegro parliamentary group, reacting to the statements of the former president and prime minister of Montenegro and honorary president of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) at the panel "Twenty Years of the Restoration of Montenegrin Independence: A Conversation with the Protagonists".

"Today, no one takes responsibility for decision-making, you have chaos and you don't have a government. That is, you have three governments, one that takes care of integration and what the Ministry of Finance is concerned about, the second that takes care of arresting as many Montenegrins as possible, and the third government where the speaker of parliament deals with national engineering," Đukanović said, among other things.

Bogdanović told Đukanović that Montenegrins were not being arrested, but thieves were being arrested.

"People are not prosecuted because of their nation, religion or identity, but because of what they did while thinking they would never be held accountable. Montenegro does not collapse when those who plundered it fall. Montenegro then rises for the first time," he added.

The president of the Democratic Party of Representatives pointed out that Montenegro is not perfect today, but it is freer.

"It is not without problems. But it is no longer theirs. It has not been cleaned up completely. But for the first time it is being cleaned up without asking whose brother, son, sister, godfather, director or family friend is who. And that is the essence, maybe today the power is divided into several political addresses, but the state is no longer divided by family accounts, criminal interests and party commands. And that is why they are hurt by every investigation, every indictment, every verdict and every handcuff on the hands of those who thought they were stronger than the state. Because then their last deception falls, that crime can be hidden behind the nation. When the indictment comes for an answer, one will remember that he is a Serb, the other that he is a Montenegrin, because they have no other answer. The nation then becomes their lawyer, and the flag a curtain for the millions they have stolen," Bogdanović stated in a press release.

But there is no national defense for theft under the law, he added.

"Serbs are not being arrested. Montenegrins are not being arrested. Thieves are being arrested. And therefore, do not insult Montenegrins, Serbs, believers, atheists, because neither Montenegrins are thieves, nor believers are crazy, Mr. Đukanović, as you have repeatedly insinuated or said. And, after all your statements, ask yourself what you are," Bogdanović concluded.