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Ten to Eight – The ‘Parliament’ circus

By Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM observer

Good morning. You’re reading a daily contextual review of the news that marked the previous day.

‘Parliament’ circus

The session of the parliamentary Defense and Security Committee was held yesterday, and we expected to hear an in-depth analysis of the Cetinje events from 4-5 September. Instead, we could hear café talks of the government officials. Deputy Prime Minister and a coordinator of the security services, Dritan Abazovic, used the opportunity to hug Milan Knezevic and Dejan Vuksic, and to say who’s an extremist and who’s not. MP and the Leader of the SDP, Rasko Konjevic, whom Abazovic called “an instigator”, responded and that could have finished badly. It would be spectacular to see it. A fight between Rasko and Dritan. Like a scene from South Park.

Abazovic admitted the same thing he said on TV. Molotov cocktail as the reason for police action was a fake news. Cetinje residents were poisoned with tear gas and rubber bullets were thrown at them because Veselin Veljovic was talking to his ex-colleagues. He again lied to us that Brdjanin had run the action.

Milan Knezevic wanted to calm tensions even though we found out that Andrija Mandic and himself were under surveillance due to extremism, then we heard a recording played by MP Predrag Boskovic, proving that there were no shootings at the police. We also learned that Zoran Brdjanin had offered his resignation, and that Sergej Sekulovic waited for dismissal. Milan Knezevic noted both Sekulovic and Krivokapic couldn’t be part of the government after refusing to obey a “binding instruction”. He even told that the two should have been apprehended.

Minister Olivera Injac told that the helicopters of the Montenegrin army were not NATO’s helicopters. We somehow knew it already, as now we know that both helicopters and the defense minister belong to the Church of Serbia.

In the end, the government agreed that the police action in Cetinje was excellent, but the session was adjourned until the National Security Agency updates the information about the event.

Conflicts between URA and Democrats continue

Instead of responding to what happened on 4-5 September, Abazovic kept a political tirade in which he denounced all those he saw as a threat to his part of the electorate. He also said that an agreement on the government reshuffle has not been reached yet, but that he’s open for dialogue. Although I did not hear that Abazovic directly attacked the Democrats during the address, the Democrat MP, Vladimir Martinovic, seemed to have recognized the provocation of URA and responded fiercely.

Medojevic and refugees from Afghanistan

Nebojsa Medojevic warned the government not to make agreements with anyone about bringing refugees from Afghanistan to Montenegro, and then had a speech about how those who bring refugees are members of a deep state and so on. If he referred to the announcement of the representative of the Mercury One humanitarian organization, the founder and first man of this organization is Glenn Beck, who is very close to Medojevic in political views.

Pride washing

Since the first Pride in Montenegro, the organizers of this event have been under pressure and attacks. Now, seven years after the first event, the attacks mostly come from government-related NGOs that use their seats in the RTCG Council to criticize the ruling majority due to the scandalous screening of the enthronement in Berane. It’s not a problem that they screened the event, the former management did it as well. To be frank, the problem is in the way of airing it. The organizers of the event responded to this sudden meddling into the Pride by the LGBT Progress and the public broadcaster, RTCG.

Response to Bazdulj

I’ve already talked about the text of Muharem Bazdulj, a Belgrade’s version of Dritan and Dodik, in which he tried to insult Tamara Nikcevic, Senad Pecanin and myself, to humiliate Dragan Bursac and challenge Viktor Ivancic. Ivancic answered him properly, putting him in the right place.

The Chetnik world in Pljevlja

Bazdulj’s coalition partners don’t want to wait – they have already started renaming the streets. The information suggesting that a street was illegally renamed in the town of Pljevlja after Ivan Jelovac, “commander of the first Chetnik battalion”, has gone viral on social media. Samir Kadribasic, the former Imam of the Islamic Community in Pljevlja, announced it as well.

“This is the street of the Third Sandzak Brigade in Pljevlja and an illegally placed sign to which no one has been reacting for a month, despite the warnings of the locals. By the way, the street is about 10 meters from the police station,” Kadribasic posted on Twitter.

They were breaking cars, now they’re breaking planes

These people would break absolutely anything. The plane of the Government of Montenegro was damaged last night at around 10 pm, at the Podgorica airport, and no one was injured, it was confirmed to CdM. It is assumed that the landing gear on the government plane broke. It happened during the return of the delegation of the Parliament of Montenegro led by Aleksa Becic from Ljubljana.

That’s all for today. Have a nice day.

 

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