European Aliance : Civic Montenegro attacked, but has not and will not be bowed down; the only ones worse than Mandić are those who brought him to the head of the Parliament

AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS

By awarding the highest state award to a man who calls the Montenegrin nation a “communist fabrication”, the current government has not only made a mockery of the values ​​on which modern Montenegro is based, but has also directly attacked the very idea of ​​its independence, anti-fascist heritage and civic dignity, the European Aliance announced.

"This act would not have been possible without the political structures that enabled Andrija Mandić, an open denier of Montenegrin statehood and promoter of a retrograde neo-Chetnik ideology, to be at the head of the Parliament today and from that position to shape state policy. Their responsibility is direct, and their silence is shameful.

Those parties that gave him a majority, that presented him as a "stability factor" and entered into coalitions with the ideological heirs of the SANU Memorandum, today bear more than Mandić the full responsibility for the humiliation of the state. In the name of the chairs and the authorities, they agreed that Montenegro would be regulated according to the standards of those who never accepted it," they state in the statement.

And when free citizens came out to protest with dignity, peace and legitimacy against this shameful act, i.e. the rehabilitation of chauvinistic ideas, the authorities, they add, sent pepper spray at them.

"The denier of the state was rewarded, and those who defend it were punished. This is the current picture of Montenegro under this government.

Civic Montenegro has been attacked, but it has not been subdued. And it will not be. It is time for all who believe in a state worthy of its citizens, in a European, anti-fascist and free Montenegro, to raise their voices. Together, decisively and without compromise with those who would turn it into a historical footnote," they conclude in the statement.