The pesters, quislings and arsonists have caused enormous damage to the country and its citizens, and the choice has never been easier than it will be on 23 October, when Montenegro will return to its civic and European path of progress, was told at the the Convention “For the Victory of Pljevlja” coalition (DPS, BS, SD, SDP) on Saturday evening, in the hall of the Montenegrin Army House.
The President of the State and of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), Milo Djukanovic, estimated, among other things, that the parliamentary elections will be held in three months and that the coalition that is currently participating in the Pljevlja elections will take part in them, complemented by “some traditional partners”
He said that those who “deliberately caused damage” to Montenegro must be held accountable.
– They were declared to be great martyrs who were coming to restore the situation in a “burnt economy” and in a “burnt country”, that is, Montenegro. As we saw later, they undeservedly boasted about the implementation of major projects, starting with the motorway, to which, incidentally, they contributed nothing. So much for the ‘scorched earth’ approach of the previous government. And we could say a few words about what they have done to make Montenegro, in effect, a fried state by offering their Elektroprivreda and Luka to buyers from Serbia, inviting buyers from Serbia to buy Kombinat Aluminium, notwithstanding the fact that Kombinat Aluminium is privately owned. Not to mention the sale of the Pljevlje coal. Because that is less of a political issue. It is undoubtedly a question of criminal liability. And that is why all those who participated in the plundering of these natural resources of Montenegro will have to be held accountable – said the President of the DPS.
Djukanovic was quoted as referring to a 30-year period of rule during which “intensive work was done to maintain peace”, to restore the country’s economic sustainability, to restore independence and to “raise the standard of living of citizens”. “, to “consolidating security, a stable health and education system”. On the other hand, the DPS adds, based on the experience of the last two years, Djukanovic said that we are witnessing how the “extremely irresponsible government”, embodied by the governments of Zdravko Krivokapic and Dritan Abazovic, has “brutally attacked” all the achievements and accomplishments of Montenegro’s modern development.
“In these two years, we have destroyed businesses, scattered investors and, as a result of all this, there are nine thousand new unemployed in Montenegro. After two years of experience with the new government, we have a public finance situation that shows that Montenegro is close to bankruptcy. Therefore, borrowing is completely inappropriate. They are demanding 350 million in loans by the end of the year, while claiming that they have collected more than the planned public revenue during the year. So what does this say to anyone with basic logical thinking? It says that unbearable consumption is being generated, which cannot possibly be covered by the social product generated and by public revenues. It would be nice if this spending were predominantly investment spending, if it were invested in infrastructure, in new facilities that would create new jobs – no. As we know, there are no new investments in Montenegro – on the contrary! All those that we have carefully prepared and started to implement have been stopped. First of all, all those in the north of Montenegro have been stopped. So what is this all about? It is about unbearable personal consumption, with no basis in what is the creation of a social product in Montenegro,” said Djukanovic.
He said that those “who are doing this” to the state of Montenegro are behaving like the worst enemies of our country and that they have managed to completely destroy the functionality of its institutions.
“Look, we have not been able to elect a Supreme State Prosecutor for several years. We cannot elect the President of the Supreme Court. We cannot choose the judges of the Supreme Court, nor the members of the Judicial Council. If we add to this the fact that the government itself has lost legitimacy in the democratic process in Parliament, we are therefore witnessing the disintegration of the institutional system in Montenegro. And this is why we should not be surprised by the scepticism of our international partners, starting with the European Commission, with this report, because they no longer know what is happening to this country. I repeat to you, Montenegro has been a model of a functional state. Today, Montenegro is in last place when it comes to being a functional state”, said the President of the DPS.
Boris Mugosa, Vice-President of the Social Democrats (SD), presented a series of examples in which the “refreshers” and “liberators” of August 2020 destroyed the economy and collapsed the institutions of Montenegro.
“I am sorry to devote a few sentences to those so-called liberators and so-called refreshers from 30 August 2020.” And what have they brought to our Montenegro in these two years. Nothing and less than that. And less than nothing. They have brought us a political circus of which we are all hostages. They have brought us the collapse of institutions. They have brought us an economic crisis. They have brought us a health blow. And they have brought us the attempted security stumble. And you know that I like to talk about socio-economic issues. You see what they are doing with state-owned enterprises. I think coal in Pljevlja has gone up three times this year. I do not think they should tell you that they are going to make electricity more expensive. Are they allowed to tell you that they have started paying wages in the coal mine without taxes and contributions? Are they allowed to tell you that, instead of 500 million in investments, they have brought you a billion and a hundred million in debts? Well, these are their results, dear citizens. Are they telling you about drastic increases in prices? Are they telling you that they have forgotten pensioners, that they have forgotten socially deprived citizens, that they have forgotten the unemployed? They do not tell you, because they are not allowed to talk to you. And this is our alternative, dear citizens”, said the SD Vice-President.
The leaders of the coalition parties reportedly said that Montenegrin civil society organisations had been attacked after the August 2020 elections, with Pljevlja in particular being targeted. The President of the Bosniak Party (BS), Ervin Ibrahimovic, said that the rally in Pljevlja and the “massive support for the politics of civic Montenegro” showed that “what was attempted on the evening of 30 August” will not be allowed.
“You understand best that folklore and those pictures from 30 August. Those pictures said that they do not wish you well and they do not wish Montenegro well. And you know very well that for a moment we lost Montenegro. But today, this great meeting, these wonderful people behind me and what they have said in front of me gives me hope and gives a message to everyone that neither Pljevlja nor Montenegro will allow anyone to take a second of Montenegro from us. Pljevlja cannot tell that you should leave Pljevlja only if you have another name or pray to God otherwise. Pljevlja cannot tell that some people should leave Pljevlja, but their ancestors have been here for hundreds of years. We will not allow that”, said the President of the Bosniak Party.
The President of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Rasko Konjevic, said that only because Montenegro is a NATO member state, after 30 August 2020 we will not have a situation in Pljevlja similar to that of the 1990s.
“Unfortunately or fortunately, the fact that we are a member of NATO ensures that today, in this situation, after 30 August, we do not have the same image in Pljevlja as we had in the 1990s.” “If we had not been part of this security umbrella, I am afraid that since 30 August, these liberators would have brought back images, those ugly images, of the criminal and paramilitary structures of the 1990s that tried to instil fear in the citizens of Pljevlja in the early 1990s,” Konjevic said.
The SDP leader added that he thinks the choice is very simple.
“You have these people who represent civic and European profiling in Pljevlja, and on the other hand, you have those who, to our regret and theirs, would like these people not to be involved in politics or would most like these people not to live in Pljevlja. We must say a clear no to such politics in Pljevlje, those who spread nationalism, in this election as well as in every previous one”.
Danijel Zivkovic, President of the Club of DPS MPs in the Pljevlja Assembly, expressed his deep conviction that “a clear message will be sent from all the municipalities where next Sunday’s elections will take place: we do not give Montenegro to such people”.
“On 30 August 2020, our liberators have chosen a target, our city of Pljevlja. On the night of 30 August, the hordes behaved rudely and arrogantly in our streets, sending the message that there is no coexistence here, that multi-ethnic and multi-religious harmony is not alive here. We, people of dignity and family, people who care for our dignity, for the dignity and image of our families, have seen this honourably. But be assured that on the 23rd, from all these municipalities where elections are being held, we will send them a clear message: Montenegro will not fall! We will not give them Montenegro! They started from Pljevlja, they started sending a message towards Montenegro, they started destroying institutions, destroying the education system, destroying the health system, destroying the security system, destroying the economy and the finances, destroying what generations of politicians behind us have created. They thought that what our family had created, they could destroy so easily. They deceived themselves into thinking that in two years’ time they would be able to bring down our Montenegro. We will not give them Montenegro,” Zivkovic said.
Speaking about the situation in his city, he said that the “current government” at the state level is trying to win elections through party recruitment, but he said that it “will not pass”.
“Let the people who vote for them in these state companies ask themselves who they are voting for. They collapsed the Thermal Power Plant, they collapsed the mine, they collapsed the thermal power sector. We will go back to managing this sector and we promise them we will go back to managing these companies responsibly. We won’t let them get their hands on it again. They’re just kabadahis. I have a right to say that.I know these people. They’re not worthy of our politics, they can’t get in our way. This message must reach every citizen of Pljevlja, it must reach every citizen of Montenegro. Better lives are not at stake here for all people in Montenegro, this is a civilizational issue. We’ve never had an easier decision to make. That is why dear citizens, friends, neighbors, godparents, classmates, let them hear this well and those who listen at the screen, we have never had an easier choice. Two years ago they tried to destroy Montenegro, we will not allow it. With a pen, responsible, dignified, wise, rational, serious to win Pljevlja,“ Zivkovic said.
The presidents of all parties of the coalition, as it was announced, assessed that the list of that coalition “represents the image of Pljevlja”.
“This is the Montenegro for which we are all fighting this is Montenegro where Montenegrins, Serbs and Bosniaks, Orthodox and Muslims are together. That is the only way,“ said Ibrahimović.
Djukanovic thanked the citizens of Pljevlja for their “support and significant contribution to the politics of civic and European Montenegro” in 2006, 2018 and especially in 2020, when “in an atmosphere of brutal aggression” it was “especially difficult to persevere” on a consistent policy of civic values and national harmony.
“It is especially important that such awareness resides in mixed environments in Montenegro, precisely in environments such as Pljevlja,” said the president of DPS.
The President of the Municipality of Pljevlja and the leader of the electoral list of the Coalition “For the Victory of Pljevlja”, Rajko Kovacevic, said about the “successes and achievements of the local administration”, as reported, that Pljevlja now has the biggest ever budget, that there are more investments in ecology, sport, culture, agriculture, infrastructure, entrepreneurship than ever before, that the town is cleaner and more orderly than ever before, and that it is helping all the citizens more than ever before, both materially and financially.
“We do it because we have it and we know how.” We have managed our finances responsibly and competently, alone or with the help of those who know more than us or have more experience, planning and implementing projects and activities, identifying citizens’ needs and finding ways to be of service to them. The funds we have in our account today are greater than in the entire energy sector of the country combined. To the municipality and the local self-government for pride, to the Coal Mine, Elektroprivreda and CEDIS not only for regretting but also for the prosecution,” Kovacevic said.
He also stressed that the list is multinational and “represents Pljevlja in a bright way”.
“As a list bearer, I am proud of the people on our electoral list, the Pljevlja ladies Abela, Tanja, Olgica, Amra, Emina, Ana, Sabrina, the beautiful Pljevlja youth Andjela, Miloš, Mohamed, Jovan. Željko, Emir, Jasmin, Zoran, Marko, Kristina, Amina, Ognjen, Edi, the experienced Danijela, Dragiša, Ermin, Sasa, both Radenka, Haris, Nebojša, Amer, Dragan, Bato, Veselin, Radoš and all the people from our party organisation, to our activists and sympathisers, to our coalition partners, because all of us together are a force that will defend Pljevlja from those who are causing it to fall and become the place they want to make it. That’s why on October 23, Pljevlja to win, to win Pljevlja in the bright May dawn, to win Pljevlja of all of us and for all of us,” said candidate list holder Rajko Kovacevic.
Djukanovic: We will have elections in three months
Djukanovic reportedly concluded the convention by saying that all indications were that it was time for parliamentary elections and that he was confident that they would be held within three months, and that the coalition currently contesting the elections in Pljevlja would participate in them, complemented by “some traditional partners”.
“It is definitely time for early national elections.” When I was here 20 days ago, in the organisation of the Youth Council of the DPS Pljevlja, I said that in a very short time we are going to have early parliamentary elections, and I said that there is no doubt who will win them. I would like to repeat that before you tonight. If the parliamentary elections in Montenegro were held today, this coalition, strengthened by a few more traditional coalition partners, not new ones, would have a majority in Montenegro. Therefore, it is not a question of who the winner is, but of how quickly we will manage to secure the elections. You have seen the ‘liberators’ and the ‘refreshers’, as Boris said, show their courage by running off the field. They are therefore making it clear to us that they, too, know what the power relations are. And that they are now trying to save themselves and prolong their moment of glory by postponing the elections. It cannot go on indefinitely. I would have liked to have had early national elections in December, they have managed to manipulate Parliament so that they do not shorten its term, but I am absolutely certain that we are close to the day when Parliament will be, I believe it will be soon, just after the 23rd. Then I will call parliamentary elections in 60 days, so that in January we will have parliamentary elections and we will have a new responsible, competent and good government dedicated to Montenegro,” Djukanovic said./Pobjeda
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