“His coalition partner and President of the Assembly, Duke Andrija Mandić, has long publicly inherited just such an ideology and value framework. That’s why such phenomena are not an incident that falls from the sky, but a logical consequence of the policy that has been normalized for years from the very top of the government, which the Bosniak Party unquestioningly serves today,” stressed Kalač.
As he points out, “it is hypocritical for the BS to express dismay at the Chetnik songs of individual soldiers, while at the same time seeing nothing objectionable in the fact that they unreservedly support the government in which a key political figure is proud of his Chetnikism”.
“One cannot at the same time feign moral concern in front of the cameras, and politically serve the structure that legitimizes, relativizes and introduces this ideology into the institutions of the system for years. This is not a principled policy, but brutal political opportunism. But also an open underestimation of the citizens’ common sense,” he said.
He adds that he is less concerned about a soldier than those who sit in the comfortable armchairs of the government and pretend not to see the essence of the problem.
“Because individuals come and go, but it is dangerous when the state starts to get used to the ideologies that have divided Montenegro, humiliated it and distanced it from its civil and European path throughout history. While they entertain the public with stories about individual incidents, the essence remains the same: for the sake of power and privileges, the current leadership of the Bosniak Party is ready to trample on everything that this party once represented as its fundamental values. And that is exactly the biggest problem,” Kalač added.
