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AUTHOR: M.J.-ANTENA M
A discussion was held under the title: "Dual citizenship - abolition of sovereign decision-making" on the organization of the Montenegrin PEN Center and the association "Slobodno društvo". The participants agreed that the introduction of dual citizenship would be disastrous for the survival of the Montenegrin state.
Professor Nebojša Vučinić, speaking about dual citizenship, said that we can hardly do anything about that issue if the majority has decided so.
"This polemic has been going on for a long time, ever since the referendum. Given the close ties between Serbs and Montenegrins, this issue always extends, all with the aim of erasing Montenegro as a sovereign state. Enacting such a law could have enormous consequences and would be completely devastating and the legal and political order in Montenegro, because the right to vote would be given to those who would abolish Montenegro and the Montenegrin people," says Vučinić.
Those who raise the issue want to abolish Montenegro, they want the Montenegrin state to cease to exist, Vučinić believes.
Professor Miloš Vukčević said that, as serious as the Government's approach is, it speaks of the fact that there is no draft law, and the intention, he believes, is obvious: to introduce dual citizenship, especially with Serbia, because their only goal is to change the electoral structure.
Some analysts mention the figure of 300,000 people who could get citizenship, Vukčević says.
"We heard the prime minister who said that he would introduce dual-class citizens who would acquire the right to vote after 10 years. When that option did not pass, we heard an option of an international treaty, but it may be against the Constitution. The Parliament must not allow itself to ratify treaties that are in contradiction with the Constitution", says Vukčević.
According to the Constitution, after two years, all those citizens could claim the right to vote, Vukčević points out and concludes that the only meaning of dual citizenship is to change the electoral structure.
"The prime minister announced some types of control mechanisms, but one should not fall for that trap because these control mechanisms do not work in practice," warns Vukčević.
He emphasizes that all those people who get dual citizenship will get the right to vote and decide on the fate of Montenegro after two years. This should not be allowed, it is a limit that Montenegro should not cross, emphasizes Vukčević.
Professor Nikoleta Đukanović said that this is one of the most striking activities in a series of activities that the parliamentary majority implements.
This, she believes, is the political program of former members of the DF, to which all the parties that make up the majority agree today.
"We see that functions and positions are something that is primary when political parties decide and even on such laws. This is a system that resembles everything except democracy and a state that strives for the EU. I believe that in Montenegro there are political parties as well as civil activists. which will not allow this. This law represents retrograde ideas reminiscent of those of the nineties and this is something that must be paid attention to especially when we explain the repercussions it will have.
The DF parties agreed to this because it will establish their power for who knows how many years and decades to come, as well as to satisfy the interests of their mentors from Belgrade. We have stepped into a big problem," Đukanović points out.
Danilo Kalezić announced that Montenegro is threatened institutionally. Today, he says, Montenegro is faced with a threat that comes from outside and inside.
"Now we are facing another red line, and there were quite a few of them. We will have columns of people and crowds at the border when election days come. Spajić and Mandić and the rest of the Chetnik gang will enter this and the question is how the others will react. This is a deadly verdict against Montenegro, we will never again have a democratic change of government and we will never again be able to talk about a democratic society," Kalezić believes.
The key question is how the opposition parties will react to this issue, he adds.
The emphasis and responsibility should be on the opposition parties, which must devise a strategy to get out of this situation, Kalezić points out.
