I hope that the federations, especially those such as basketball, volleyball, handball, water polo and swimming, football, and others, will refuse to participate in the legitimization of the continuation of clientelism and nepotism in the Montenegrin Olympic Committee, said Marko Begović, former acting director of the Administration for Sports and young.
It is an announcement that he says he decided "on the occasion of another illegitimate election in the Montenegrin Olympic Committee", which will be held tomorrow.
Prenosimo ga intregralno...
"The Olympic Games in Paris confirmed what I have been drawing attention to for a long time. We have once again received confirmation that Montenegro is not a sports miracle. Namely, recently, sports officials with weak biographies without any limitations, running away from their own responsibility, are alarming that limited the base of athletes and the lack of finances are the key problem of Montenegrin sports. We have young and talented athletes, specifically the Montenegrin Olympic Committee for the previous period and three times more finances than the state budget.
The current management of COK, connected to persons under serious suspicion and judicial proceedings, as indicated by excerpts of intercepted communications, not only did not submit a report to the public and took responsibility, but through the established clientelistic and nepotistic framework, continues to capture Montenegrin sports.
I drew attention to the carcinogenicity of this kind of policy to some top sportsmen and women whose statements we can read these days, but at that time, for reasons of I don't know what interest, there was no listening.
I warned them that they are just a tool of those who are ruining Montenegrin sports. But for them too, there is an assessment from the Work Program of the Republic Secretariat for Education, Culture and Physical Culture for 1990:
"Hiring former athletes... in decision-making positions in sports organizations, without the necessary and acquired knowledge in the professional tasks of management, planning and implementation of programs and actions in the field of sports, and that only because they were athletes, brings with it great negative consequences not only with from a professional point of view, but also from a health, educational, sociological, pedagogical-psychological and cultural point of view'.
The party-democratic State Audit Institution also noted the continuous misuse of Montenegrin citizens' funds, specifically in connection with the financing of the organization of travel/accommodation for the 2016 Olympic Games. As this is only part of the misuse, the Government of Montenegro is obliged to react to the situation in Montenegrin sports. ie to request the action of appropriate financial, tax and judicial authorities in accordance with its competences. The Government of Montenegro must strive for the democratization of Montenegrin sports and it is necessary to be directly involved in the reform process, which would limit the practice of creating family businesses, as in the case of the Montenegrin Olympic Committee. Why is the Government of Montenegro persistently silent, perhaps the answer should be sought in the connected companies or parties of the current government with the Montenegrin Olympic Committee.
In the end, I hope that especially associations such as basketball, volleyball, handball, water polo and swimming, football and others will refuse to participate in legitimizing the continuation of clientelism and nepotism in the Montenegrin Olympic Committee," said Begović.
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