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AUTHOR: M.J. GDNUS
WRITTEN BY: SRĐAN ČOVIĆ
If anyone didn’t shed a tear for the fate of the accused members of the RTCG Council while they were reciting their pathetic and absurd defense — they have no soul.
If it wasn’t immediately clear that the Public Media Service is in the hands of suggestible mediocrities — they are very naive.
Since columns in serious media are still a matter of earnestness and not at all naive, let us emphasize some thoughts the Council members shared with the public, the court, the media, and their (un)professional biographies.
Unconvinced Docent
Doctor Drljević doesn’t allow the situation where his actions are discussed. The court, in fact, did not sufficiently convince him that Raonić could not be elected as general director. He stuck to the argument that Raonić was not in a conflict of interest in 2023 because of his membership in the AEM Council, although he had documents from 2021 when he was part of the SAEM.
Drljević was at the helm of the Council that, based on Raonić's proposals, made over 500 changes to the systematization. Some decisions eliminated jobs and dismissed professionals. Others created positions for their loyal followers.
Throughout this time, Drljević’s Council didn’t make the essential change in systematization defined by the Law on the National Public Broadcaster from August 2020. It stipulates that the general director must have 10 years of work experience. Since Raonić graduated in 2018, he didn’t have 10 years of experience. This was consistently acknowledged by the courts: Basic, Higher, and Supreme Court, as well as the Anti-Corruption Agency.
So, the claim that the Council members were only doing their job does not hold. They were doing Raonić’s bidding. Drljević overlooked the fact that they received correct legal interpretations of Raonić’s disqualification. When he saw who he was dealing with, he left RTCG. That’s why they embraced the analysis of the lawyer who hadn’t won a single case in three years, despite being paid tens of thousands of euros.
If Drljević’s assertion is taken seriously, future courts will need to write several types of decisions... regular ones for administration and justice, and extremely convincing ones for doctors who are not convinced they copied their doctoral dissertation from the ministry's archives.
Filip in the Wrong Place
Lawyer Lazović tried to convince the judges and the prosecution that they were under pressure and that this trial shouldn’t have happened. The young Lazović also remained unconvinced, even though he was verbally and in writing explicitly told that Raonić was prone to deception and fabrications about having support from parties, embassies, and some international addresses — each for their own plans (which is partially true). But that cannot outweigh the laws of the state of Montenegro and proper, professional behavior. As a lawyer, he shouldn’t treat the norms the law clearly explained so lightly.
Amina in the Land of Strange Accusations
The disbelief of the first two Council members is nothing compared to Amina’s astonishment as to why some other people aren’t in the dock. She presented everything as a conspiracy of other media and disloyal professionals from RTCG who, apparently, disturb the public with gossip about Raonić’s wrongdoing and lawlessness. And who could possibly doubt her spokesperson role about Raonić’s successes, similar to those carried out in GA, where an English teacher with railway experience became a project manager under the wise leadership of high school graduate Boris.
However, it is essential to focus on what Amina said, that her health had been deteriorating due to this unhealthy atmosphere and the criminal process. If ignorance harms your health, it should be an indication of an autoimmune process... something like intellectual arthritis where ignorance and unworthiness create anxiety, which then leads to stress. But this is not the fault of others, but Amina’s unlawful guru and the priest of her advisory sect.
Naod’s Smoke Break
Another Council member had almost a poetic performance in court. Along with the usual invocation of honor that cannot be paired with legal ignorance — which Naod admits — we also heard how Naod thinks. So, he has to light a cigarette and be alone. Now we understand why his figures appear in some surreal haze and why art enters his mouth. It is quite interesting how artistic thoughts and ideas materialize into material pictures that are gifted around the region. Smoke in smoke.
It was also explained why Naod was unwell during the Administrative Committee, where smoking was banned, when he almost fell asleep even though almost all members knew Naod had a free pass, so Boris could have a new election. Illegal.
Nevertheless, attention should be paid to the smoke break for reflection that Naod had. He already had, he says, an idea for a gallery. Could it have been Boris, appearing in a cloud of smoke, who presented the idea as a final trump card for the illegal election, without written clarification from the legal service that Naod requested during the session?
It seems that Naod’s secrets and musings are guarded by future smoked cigarettes.
Folk Fiscal and Region
In general, all members of the Council, except for the former rector Miranović, were mute, so it can be expected that their next decision about the housing list, worth almost four million, will be confirmed with a nod of the head or a wave of the hand. No one will be casting votes or dropping ballots anymore.
When the muses were silent, because the Council members, therefore, will manifest their thoughts, ideas, efforts, and service to the public interest through pantomime, a lawyer appeared whose appearance, as one sharp colleague remarked, evokes a folk singer. But from the folk image, the only thing funnier is when a folk singer is thinking in front of several media. They all did their job, and only their vote matters, says the folk fiscal. For the fiscal, making decisions about millions and human fates is entirely personal... free will — like a toothache.
What the Council members are required to comply with the law that specifies the conditions and capacities the general director must meet... the fiscal only cares about the fee. For someone who defends both the church and lottery organizers with the same zeal and pathos, this somehow fits. Everything has mixed together... and paid off... and now he says the region is laughing at us.
The region is laughing because at the helm of the Council is a doctor who copies, and at the helm of RTCG is a repeatedly illegal director who dealt with the rule of law, and each day stains the law in every way.
The region laughs, and the state should cry.
If the prosecution and the court don’t have a sensible response to this theater of absurdity and mockery of reason and the judicial system.
