WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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SOURCE: ANTENA M – AUTHOR: M.J. GDNUS
Students have asked Prime Minister Milojko Spajić to speak out as soon as possible and dismiss Minister Danilo Šaranović and Deputy Prime Minister Aleksa Bečić. If their demands are not met, they are ready, they say, for civil disobedience led by students.
The protest of the student group "Where are we tomorrow" has ended, which was first held in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs building in Podgorica, where at 7:40 p.m. a 13-minute silence was held for the 13 victims of the horrific crime in Cetinje.
Students and citizens then headed to the Parliament of Montenegro.
Citizens carried banners reading "Peace is our raid", "Normal life", "Resignation is the minimum of responsibility"...
They chanted "resignations, resignations!" and "Down with the government so that the people don't suffer".
The students demanded that Prime Minister Milojko Spajić dismiss Šaranović and Bečić, and said that they would not give up until their demands were met.
"Instead of taking responsibility guided by human moral sense, guided by their duties and obligations, Montenegrin politicians these days are more concerned with discrediting, targeting and spreading untruths about us. Montenegrin politicians are trying to act cool, nice, humorous, while waving to us from their expensive official cars and greeting us with songs."
"Our politicians have been making us look like fools and idiots for decades, but they won't succeed because we will finally tell them that this can't go on! We don't want to live in a country ruled by a partyocracy and where we don't feel safe, and that's why we won't leave, we won't stop until all our demands are met!
We will always be here to respond to every injustice, we will be here to warn our politicians that they must be careful how they work and how they behave, because their mandates depend on the will of our citizens!
This is just the beginning, because whether they like it or not, the world is up to us!", said one student.
One of the students said that they demanded resignations, which implies moral responsibility.
"Since you so immaturely, arrogantly and callously refused and ignored our request, you have shown that, unfortunately, for you, responsibility is only a lesser-known word. Accordingly, an informal group of students is now demanding from the Prime Minister, Prime Minister Milojko Spajić, the dismissal of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Danilo Šaranović, and the dismissal of the Deputy Prime Minister for Security and Defense, Mr. Aleksa Bečić.
Therefore, we demand from the Prime Minister to make a statement as soon as possible and publicly state our demands, the dismissals, especially this first request, because so far no one in charge of this request has said a single word publicly. Gentlemen, we are not servants of any regime, neither the past, nor yours, nor any future one. We are not servants of parties, we are not servants. We serve only the universal values that we learned about as students. We serve goodness, honesty, freedom, nobility, justice and love!", said one of the students.
"We have asked the Prime Minister of Montenegro to schedule a press conference no later than February 1st, at which he must explain what has been done so far since the crime that occurred in Cetinje on January 1st of this year. If our demands are not met, we are ready for civil disobedience led by students.
In our anthill called civil protest, there are many smart and hardworking people who do not serve a single cricket that selfishly sings while not thinking about the winter that has enveloped our cities these days, and for years. So we would like to tell him this! You are not the king of the ants! You do not have all the power in this world! But you still have the power to dismiss other crickets who cannot even sing, let alone do their homework!", said another student.
Recall that at the previous protest held on January 16, student representatives presented the following demands:
"First demand - resignation of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister for Security and Defense.
Second demand - more prompt and proactive action by the competent institutions on the issue of weapons possession.
Third demand - reform of the system of functioning of police structures.
Fourth demand - Return of civic education as a mandatory subject in all primary and secondary schools.
Fifth demand - Our new demand. Improving the institutional approach to mental health care. And now we will give an explanation.
We demand the formation of a special commission consisting of renowned psychologists and psychiatrists whose task will be to compile a psychological manual for crisis situations. We also demand urgent consideration of opening new job positions for psychologists in all Montenegrin institutions as well as urgent consideration of opening a psychological counseling center in the north, which will also contribute to the centralization of Montenegro.
We demand that the Public Service Broadcasting, through weekly programs dedicated exclusively to mental health care, promote it and thereby contribute to the destigmatization of psychological examinations. We also demand "is the regular advertising of SOS contacts of competent institutions where one can request psychological help or schedule an examination," the students stated.
