The Prime Minister of Montenegro threatened to expel all Serbian priests from the country
The head of the Montenegrin government, Dusko Markovic, went so far as to promise that after the parliamentary elections on August 30, he would open the borders and expel all clergy of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
This is how the prime minister responded to the nightly protest processions against the discriminatory law “On Freedom of Religion.”
“Montenegro is under attack these days by the same people who didn’t want it in 2006 [when the referendum on Montenegro’s separation from Serbia took place] and whose ancestors annuled it in 1918 [when the majority of Montenegro decided to join Yugoslavia], – says Markovich. – The Serbian Orthodox Church and its priests will return to monasteries and churches, they will no longer participate in political processions, they will not stand behind the microphone, cursing our fathers, our grandfathers, ourselves, our children. This is not done anywhere in the XNUMXst century in the world; unfortunately, this is done in Montenegro.”
According to Markovic, the leadership of Montenegro will “tolerate” the activity of the Serbian Orthodox Church only until August 30, the day of the parliamentary elections.
“Afterwards we won’t tolerate it. The law and legal order will be equally valid both for us and for His Eminence, Metropolitan Amphilochius of Montenegro and Primorsky and all the others…. We will open the borders because they have no foundation here, and we will return them to their homes from where they came, let them arrange their homes, their country in the way they like and leave our Montenegro to us,” the Montenegrin prime minister added.
The Serbian Orthodox Church did not react in any way to Markovic's attack, but the Montenegrin Serb and pro-Serb parties did.
“Dusko Markovic makes statements that he lived in Croatia in 1995, and he sees the reincarnation of [Croatian separatist leader] Franjo Tudjman in Milo Djukanovic. Montenegro will never be the Croatia of 1995. Everyone should know and take this into account. We're not going anywhere. And whoever wants to, let him try to kick us out,” said deputy chairman of New Serbian Democracy Marko Kovacevic.
Marko Kovacevic.
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