The occasion, Bojović emphasized, is one of Knežević’s last television appearances.
“I’m glad that Milan Knežević finally dared to address me directly in one of his latest TV appearances, instead of attacking my wife and my children for days, in the most down-to-earth way. When I was leaving the Democratic People’s Party, he asked me not to make a media sensation out of it. I respected that agreement without exception, first of all because of the years we spent together in politics, but also because of elementary interpersonal relations,” he says.
It is important, Bojović stressed, to remember that he left the party at a time when it was still part of the parliamentary majority.
“I did not leave for the sake of office, nor for political interest, but precisely because I believed that the political direction that Milan Knežević was following at the time led to a serious destabilization of the majority that replaced the DPS. It was obvious that stepping out of the parliamentary majority and constantly opening conflicts with previous partners could lead to nothing other than the weakening of the August 30th victory and, ultimately, the political rehabilitation of the DPS. Unfortunately, time has shown that my assumptions at the time were not without foundation,” adds Bojović.
As he points out, Milan Knežević did not stick to the tacit agreement on “non-aggression” in the past period.
“Instead of open political polemics, he chose sporadic attacks, personal disqualifications and “argumentum ad hominem” as the basic method of reckoning. Always low, always below the belt and without a minimum of political or human restraint. Lately, he has crossed all boundaries. Although he persistently, through the mouth of others, claims that he is “high” above all of us, he does not stop hitting low, lower than the most basic human and political criteria,” he emphasized.
Among other things, he says that Knežević’s claims that he “hired” Bojović in the DNP are not true.
“In the DNP, on the basis of a work contract, I received 200 euros for four or five years, and 300 euros for one year (in the period before 2020), as the president of the Municipal Committee in Danilovgrad. I thank him for that alleged privilege, which today he tries to present as an act of personal and special kindness. That money mainly covered the costs of fuel and daily work in the field, while we were building the party and achieving results and mandates that benefited the party itself,” he says. he.
He then asked Knežević several questions.
“But if I am as bad, incompetent and worthless as he is trying to present me today, then quite logical questions arise: Why did he nominate me for the president of the Municipal Committee in Danilovgrad? Why did he nominate me for the vice-president of the party? Why did he nominate me for the deputy? Why did he nominate me for the ambassador? I emphasize – he proposed,” he pointed out.
He also says that his wife Jelena Borovinić-Bojović was not in the DNP, nor was Knežević appointed as a minister.
“However, if she has even a minimum of political correctness, she should remember how much she did for the DNP and for him personally in a period when it was neither an obligation nor a political interest for her. If she, as she suggests today, is so bad and incompetent, why did he twice support her as the holder of the list in Podgorica? Did he do it out of “human breadth” or because she was bringing results? “Does she think that she, as the holder of the list, did not contribute to the result in Podgorica,” Bojović asks.
“It is precisely thanks to these results, as he further emphasizes, that today Knežević has positions in city enterprises, management positions in the administration of the Capital City and has four councilors who have become a key instrument of his political pressure on friends and allies of yesterday,” he says.
He asks Knežević how his new political cooperation with DPS works.
“Will he realize the rights of the Serbian people together with Milo Đukanović and Duško Marković? How does he explain to his voters the political alliances that until yesterday he declared unacceptable, immoral and treacherous? He justifies his association with the DPS with the thesis that he thus prevented the alleged theft in Podgorica. Citizens are therefore rightly asking today: if he prevented the theft with the DPS, how come he now, in this way, recommends them as a political entity that “prevents theft,” after accusing them for two decades of being a symbol of political corruption and abuse,” he asks.
As he adds, since Knežević talks about mandates and political morality almost every day, wouldn’t it be natural for him to first answer the question of his own political continuity.
“Shouldn’t he also return the “armchair” and mandate that he has jealously guarded for seventeen years? And who, in that case, should return it? It will not be the case that he emerged on the political stage by himself. That’s why a simple rule applies: the day he returns the mandate to those from whom it politically originated, I will be ready to talk about my mandate, for which he laments so inconsolably today. I owe my “mandate” to the citizens and I am only accountable to them,” he said.
Until then, he tells Knežević to leave his family out of political calculations.
“If he has a problem with me, let him address me. It is a matter of elementary political decency, but also of personal integrity,” he concluded.
