Editor’s take
TIRANA, November 29 – Montenegro has been engulfed by several mass protests against the acting Prime Minister, Dritan Abazovic. Hundreds of citizens and opposition supporters has recently come out in Podgorica to demand early parliamentary elections and the punishment of traitors, thus referring to the current Prime Minister, Dritan Abazovic, for the deal with the Serbian Orthodox Church. The accusations against him were that he has become a servant of Serbia and its president.
“Neither Milosevic in the 90s nor Vucic now can make Montenegro surrender.
There will be no Open Balkans, there will be no Serbian world. Dritan Abazovic, you who are Vucic’s assistant, can only trumpet the Open Balkans in Belgrade, before Vucic, Vulin, Rakovic and Beckovic. Hands off Montenegro. We are here to protect every inch of Montenegro,” said MP Draginja Vuksanović-Stanković. Accusations against Abazovic claim further that he works for someone else and not for the good of the country and he is obstructing the path to membership in the European Union.
“He is someone else’s broom and shovel who wants to push Montenegro into the Open Balkans, which is nothing but the Serbian world,” said Vido Drashkovic from the Social Democratic Party.
While the journalist Krsmanovic underlined during one of the protestd that people have come out to protect the Constitution, the reputation of Montenegro, the damaged institutions and the whole country.
Activist Vido Draskovic said that “in a thousand years of its existence, Montenegro has not had peace, as it does not have today.” He stated that the “Open Balkan” is nothing more than a Serbian world to block Montenegro on the path to integration.
While referring to Dritan Abazović, the activist described him as a ‘broom’ and a ‘shovel’ of those who seek the destabilization of Montenegro.
It is announced that some senior officials of URA who had high posts in Abazovic’s government have resigned.
It was like a ‘tremor’ the resigning from all positions of Minister of European Affairs of Montenegro and Deputy Prime Minister, Jovana Marovic, who informed President of the Assembly Danijela Đurović on her decision.
“Given that political parties are calling each other out for inaction through the media, instead of sitting down to agree on key issues and priorities of importance for democratization and integration, fulfilling this goal, that is, speeding up the European path, is not possible under these conditions,” said Marović, a well known authority for the EU accession process of Montenegro and the Western Balkans.
Since August 20, when the government of Dritan Abazović was voted no-confidence, Montenegro has had a government with a technical mandate. /Argumentum.al
