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"In the past two and a half years, the current government has seriously threatened all those fundamental values that we as a society have painstakingly created over the past few decades," announced the president of the Social Democrats of Montenegro (SD), Damir Šehović, at a session of the party's municipal committee in Ulcinj.
Šehović said that we have not had the opportunity to see a crisis of this magnitude since 2006 until today.
"The current government left behind the biggest political and institutional crisis, which literally paralyzed all the most important institutions of this country. The government is acting state for months, the parliament is not functioning at full capacity, the judicial and prosecutorial branches of government as well," he said.
Šehović said that an even bigger problem is that the two last governments left behind the biggest value crisis, since all those values that were painstakingly worked on in previous decades, and which as such represented the greatest success of state policy since the restoration of independence, are seriously threatened.
"We have turned from a civil society almost into a clero-nationalist society. Today, no one can convince us that we are a more secular state than we were two and a half years ago, because we are not, since we have turned from a secular into a clerical society. We are no more an anti-fascist society than we were, because we are not, since in the places where serious state decisions are made, there are people who question exactly these anti-fascist values. Even today, we are definitely no more a European society than we were because the process of European integration is blocked, and our European friends speak of Montenegro as a "cancer" in the Western Balkans, Šehović said.
But, as Šehović said, that's not all either.
"The ultimate goal of our political competitors is to decapitate civilian Montenegro in the political sense by winning the presidential elections, in order to complete what they have not achieved in these two and a half years," Šehović concluded.
SD Vice President Boris Mugoša said that Montenegro can only survive as a civil state and that such a Montenegro has no alternative.
"I think that the divisions that have always existed are deeper than ever and that we are increasingly becoming a national state from a civil one, and we must not allow that as a society. On the economic side, when you compare the salary in January 2023 with January 2022, the purchasing power has dropped drastically due to the incredible inflation we are witnessing," said Mugoša.
He characterized this year's budget as "pre-election", assessing that populist increases often occur and that the Government is aware that there are "holes" in the budget.
"The government decided to fill these holes over the backs of the citizens. A few days ago, changes were made to the Act on Excise Taxes, which will probably lead to an additional increase in the prices of certain products," Mugoša concluded.
The president of the OO SD Ulcinj, Ćazim Hodžić, pointed out that the Social Democrats of Ulcinj recognize the interest of the state in the upcoming presidential elections and that is why, all but one, stand behind the presidential candidate Đukanović.
"We must not, never have and never will calculate with the state interests of Montenegro. We want to live in our city, in our Montenegro, without fear of what may happen tomorrow and without fear of whether, because of our name and surname, we will be harassed by anyone. That Montenegro, in which we are all equal, is a Montenegro that I deeply believe in and a Montenegro that, together with this municipal committee, I will always strongly advocate for," said Hodžić.
M. J.
