Health system agony
Public Health Institute has informed us that the number of those infected is not dropping, and that ten people died yesterday from the coronavirus. The situation in Budva was only cleared, but obviously it isn’t any better in Herceg Novi, from where Mayor Stevan Katić spoke up, who, like his colleague, Mr Marko Carević, has urged the Minister of Health to help the local community and medical workers in this city.
Minister Jelena Borovinić Bojović has still not referred to this issue, which provokes the public quite a bit. Yesterday, hundreds of people shared the status on social networks, in which the Minister was required to resign. A hashtag has also been created on the social networks #ostavkaJBB. In addition to the status, people shared a petition for her resignation, organized by the 21 May 21 Initiative, which has been signed by over 6,000 people to date. You can sign the petition here.
The United Montenegro MP, Dr Vladimir Dobričanin, during the session of the Parliamentary Health Committee, made the danger of a pandemic meaningless and said that it was not a matter of life and death. Dr Senad Begić also spoke through a column and recalled how much awareness we lack in such situations of someone at least trying to work, stressing that he is ready to communicate with the public in two directions.
The DPS has called on the Prime Minister to dismiss the Minister, and the Liberal Party has stated that, while the problems are accumulating, the Ministry is looking to provide management and operational positions. And they are obviously right because we only found out yesterday that officials in health institutions in Podgorica, Nikšić, Cetinje and Ulcinj were fired. Many of them are, of course, politically active. The new director of the Nikšić Hospital from the ranks of the Democrats, for example, proved himself during the processions and the pre-election campaign, when he expressed his political views quite aggressively. You can read about the seriousness of the situation with the virus in Cetinje here.
Old cross for new divisions
Yesterday, the Reis of the Islamic Community, Mr Rifat Fejzić, shared photos of a cross with four fire-steels drawn on the wall of the Osmanagić mosque in Stara Varoš in Podgorica. Almost the entire political public immediately stood up to condemn this act. Both the Government and the opposition reacted. Primarily the Bosniak Party, but also the Democrats and the SNP. However, one of the Democrat officials, Mr Nebojša Babović, remembered that he had seen the graffiti before and, with the help of a friend from Belgrade, dealt with digital forensics and really proved that the cross was drawn there at least in 2016. Judging by the differences in the colour intensity, it is possible that this time the same cross was thickened and “fixed”. I have no doubt that there was no bad intent in the Reis’s announcement and that he himself did not know that the graffiti had been there for so long. However, it is interesting that Mr Babović knew that all these years and that he kept silent.
Montenegro in “Serbian World”
Apart from the fact that billboards for the elections in Montenegro appeared in Bileća in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the President of Serbia does not stop proving and showing that his political goal is the domination of political life in Montenegro. His MP Rajić, who stayed and participated in the campaign in Nikšić, accused Prime Minister Krivokapić and his deputy Abazović of being guilty of expelling Serbian citizens who illegally participated in the campaign in Nikšić. We can no longer grasp who likes and dislikes someone within the Serbian World, and that is the goal of the well-known strategy of Mr Aleksandar Vučić to devise new tensions at all times – real and false – in order to confuse the public. In Serbia, it gives results, we will see what will happen here.
Mr Vučić also allegedly set about smoothing relations between Russia and Montenegro and helping Montenegrin wines return to the Russian market. While in Serbia, he feeds anti-Montenegrin hysteria.
It is interesting that a fake diplomat and, as they say, a close associate of Mr Daka Davidović was arrested in Nikšić. These days, Montenegro is reminiscent of Belgrade in the 1990s, when it was flooded with false princes and counts, white magicians and healers.
That is the price of political refreshment we paid – life in 24/7 political reality, which is consistently prepared for us by the best student of Mr Vučić‘s school of leadership – Mr Dritan Abazović.
So much for today. We wish you a pleasant rest of the day. A new text will be ready for reading tomorrow at the same time.
