The Movement for Pljevlja called on the authorities in the country to pass a law on the fight against the educational mafia, which would allow the punishment of those "who bought diplomas and those who sold them".
"If this is not done, maybe we will save Montenegro from drug cartels, but we certainly won't from purchased diplomas," states the announcement of the Movement for Pljevlja, whose president is former MP Novica Stanić.
In that party, they believe that the purchase of diplomas has taken off so much that it is leading the country in an ambition that the majority of holders of such diplomas are employed in the civil service, especially in health care and the police.
"That's how saleswomen became nurses overnight, and petty criminals respected policemen. When the republican inspection for the control of diplomas was announced at the Pljeval hospital fifteen years ago, a good part of the employees raced to withdraw the purchased diplomas from their files. The inspection never came, and they wages were reduced to a level that corresponded to real education. But that didn't last long either, those who sold them diplomas made it possible to legalize them by taking a fictitious exam. Is there a solution to this buy-sell oriented education, which, slowly but surely, it leads the whole society into the abyss. A law on the fight against the educational mafia should be passed and those who bought diplomas and those who sold them should be punished equally. If this is not done, maybe we will save Montenegro from the drug cartels, but we will certainly not from the purchased diplomas." , the announcement states.
In the Movement for Pljevlja, they say that buying diplomas is dangerous for the people and the state because it is more insidious.
"More than half a century ago, during the one-party and dictatorial era, in which there was not much freedom, but there was much more order, and education was under the exclusive jurisdiction of the state, a professor of physical education appeared in the Pljeval High School with a smuggled diploma. The rest of the story how he mainly used two exercises in physical education classes. On the command "flood" the students climbed on the gymnastic equipment to save their heads, and on the command "planes" they sought shelter from the bombing. When he felt that he was going to be discovered, he ran away from Pljevlja, taking with him one student who could not resist the charm of the fake professor", the announcement reads.
They remind that at that time diplomas could not be bought in secondary and higher schools, and especially in colleges.
In the movement, they expect the state to deal with crime and drug cartels.
"It was said a long time ago that there is no state without the mafia, but only the Montenegrin mafia has its own state. The evidence for this is the numerous arrests of leading or subordinate people in the judiciary, the prosecution and the police, which unequivocally confirms that the disease is systemic, because it knows no borders where the state begins and the mafia ends. The open Balkans in the Montenegrin way. But we should not be surprised by that. Montenegro was once created by saints led by St. Peter of Cetinje and Njagoš Lovćenski Tajnovidec, and today's Montenegro is organized crime and its political wing DPS, on led by Milo Đukanović. Let us remind you that the conflict in the unified DPS in 1997, better known as the conflict between Milo and Momir, arose from the relationship to two issues. The first was the relationship to the common state with Serbia, and the second was to organized crime, i.e. the smuggling of tobacco and oil. As is known, the smugglers and criminals won. And 'what is born, time does not correct,'" the announcement states.
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