The Director of the Public Institution Museums and Galleries Budva, Lucija Đurašković, said that all illegal decisions of the Vice-President of the Municipality of Budva, Jasna Dokić, were nullified, stating that this cultural institution has been suffering torture for a long time by a newly formed group of citizens.
Đurašković reacted to the text published today on the "Vijesti" portal.Dokić: appointment of a new council in accordance with the Law... ".
"This address is primarily aimed at my fellow citizens because we have all been witnessing for a long time the attempts of party and any other torture that certain officials of the Municipality of Budva, on the order of their party headquarters from a newly formed group of citizens, are perpetrating against public cultural institutions in our city. Since the Museums and Galleries of Budva are the largest institution on the Montenegrin coast, it is clear that the pressure we suffer is the greatest and the methods are the most terrible. We face daily the open intention that our entire work is politicized in order to gain votes by a group of citizens. As I have already emphasized, I have been working in this institution for almost 40 years and I will fight as long as I am employed so that this professional institution does not turn into a party branch of a group of citizens, which, among others, is unfortunately led by the vice-president of the Municipality of Budva", she warned. Đurašković.
Dokić, he claims, deliberately hides in his statement to share with the public the reasons and legal basis for appointing non-professionals to the institution's professional Council.
"All this for the reason that taxi drivers and other unauthorized persons cannot and will not be members of this body. Vice President Dokić is hiding from the public the reason why she may have appointed a person to the Council as a representative of the collective without contacting him and that our employee refuses to do so, as well as the fact that the procedure for the new appointment of employee representatives has been initiated. This whole case really, looking from the side, if we are not his victims, looks like part of some theatrical grotesque", Đurašković pointed out.
As the Administrative Inspection emphasizes, it certainly made several minutes, but it never ordered the abuse of the Law as well as the controversial Article 59 of the Law on Local Self-Government and for the vice-president to "grab for herself powers she does not have".
"I dedicated my entire working life and the rest of it to the cultural heritage of Budva. The opening of the Museum of the City of Budva, the preservation of the two most important mosaic monuments and many other projects require me to fight, without compromise, so that ignorance does not overwhelm knowledge and that inexperience does not defeat people who are experts. I annulled all illegal decisions of Mrs. Dokić, in accordance with Article 25 of the Institution's Statute, and I will consider any further action aimed at the political and other illegal "conquest" of the largest cultural institution in Budva and on the coast as a criminal offense and I will act in that direction. Deeply I'm convinced that, after years of cultural wandering in Budva's wasteland, the collapse of every kind of culture and the preservation of cultural heritage, it's the right moment to say enough, as well as to stand in the way of lawlessness, the trampling of everything that has to do with culture, and the infiltration of naked politics into institutions with the intention of harassing employees in order to be election instruments. While I manage the institution, I will not allow unprofessional personnel and satellites of any group of citizens or party to take over management, and individually or collectively, the Council, in a procedure that is completely contrary to the law!" concluded the director in her reaction.
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