The leader of the Democratic People's Party (DNP) Milan Knežević sent the President of the Assembly Aleksa Bečić an initiative for the admission of the Montenegrin citizenship of the actress Vesna Pećanac.
As Knežević stated in the letter, the initiative has the consent of the actress.
"Not only ours, but also the wider cultural public has long been familiar with the stepmotherly and ignorant attitude of the state of Montenegro towards the greatest director in the history of Montenegrin cinematography, Živko Nikolić, who is also celebrated as a television director and screenwriter. It should be noted that our general public is known for unsuccessful the attempts of a number of deputies, in the years that are behind us, to enable Živko Nikolić to receive a pension, but such initiatives were rejected by characterizing this great man of our and European cinema as someone who hates his country, and Nikolić was often bitter with those mundane insinuations spoke", stated Knežević.
In his address to Bečić, the leader of the DNP also stated that not after the death of Nikolić, his family remained in unenviable financial circumstances, and that his wife Vesna Pećanac still bears the greatest hardships today.
"The former celebrated acting diva of the SFRY lives in a state of extreme social need and an overall situation that the state of Montenegro must not ignore. Once one of the most talented actresses of Yugoslavia, today she is in new evils, forgotten by everyone, financially below the level of human dignity. Gora must no longer wait to help Vesna Pećanac, if for years after us she behaved so ignorantly towards Živko Nikolić and the fate of his entire family in the belief that your thoughts are the same, I appeal to find a civilized way so that our country can finally, through help Vesni Pećanac at least partially corrected the decades-long injustice towards the family of the great Montenegrin director and artist, Živko Nikolić".
Knežević stated that he expects a concrete initiative from Bečić at the level of the President of the Assembly, "which would give this whole humane act a special stamp, and which our entire, benevolent cultural public would welcome and wholeheartedly support".
"One of the possibilities is certainly to grant Montenegrin citizenship to this artist, in order to obtain the conditions for Vesna Pećanac to receive a pension in Montenegro," said Knežević.
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On Twitter, one of the users wrote that Pećanac is a "regular user of the kitchen of the Religious Charitable Guardianship".
Director Srđan Dragojević stated that as a member of the Serbian parliament, he fought against the idea of abolishing national pensions for artists.
He also said that the law was overturned, but that these pensions were not granted for seven years.
"It's not nice for artists to experience something like this," wrote Dragojević on Twitter.
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