Mayor of Nis: As President Vučić, so do we – Politics

Disputes between the progressives Nis and on the parliamentary “minute of silence” of the Metropolitan Amfilohije.

The Municipal Assembly of Nis began today by giving a minute of silence to the late Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Litoral Amfilohije, on the occasion of which a controversy was held within the Progressive Nis before the session, which included the mayor of Nis Dragana Sotirovski, and that was “leaked” to the public. Disputes between opposing currents in the Serbian Progressive Party in Nis have been a “public secret” for years, and were also pointed out by the president of Serbia and the SNS, Aleksandar Vučić, and the chairman of the party’s Executive Board, Darko. Glišić.

Before the SG session, there were disagreements among SNS members about who was in the “minute of silence” of the late Metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox Church and who was against it. Milos Bandjur, the current councilor and deputy of the former mayor of Nis, Darko Bulatovic, criticized in viber correspondence Mayor Sotirovski, who, he claimed, opposed the proposal to start the SG session in this way, but refused to comment on such claims. for Danas. The mayor categorically denied them for our newspaper.

In this correspondence, published on social networks, Bandjur announced that at the meeting of the SNS committee group, held before today’s session of the City Assembly, Mayor Sotirovski “categorically rejected the councilors’ proposal that the session will begin with a minute of silence for the late spiritual leader of our town, Metropolitan Amfilohije. ”

– A woman screamed at the sky that she couldn’t do that. But, first of all, the mayor cannot order the councilors what they will do in their session. Second, the fact that the mayor is a member of the Illuminati and the Templars does not give her the right to interfere in the religious feelings of the Serbian advisers, who, in addition to belonging to her church, do not belong to any secret sect or organization – said Bandjur.

Sotirovski, on the other hand, said that such a claim was a “notorious lie”, and that it was made by those who did not even attend the SNS committee group meeting.

– In the groups of the SNS committee, the decision was made to start the SG session with a minute of silence. We don’t vote, we just talk. The proposal was made by Councilor Goran Milisavljević, who did not explain it. Since the President of the Assembly (Boban Džunić, well) said that we would agree to that later, my comment was that we would be guided by the President of Serbia Vučić and his departure to Podgorica. Some councilors said that it had already been announced that President Vučić would attend the funeral, and my answer was, then there is no dilemma, Sotirovski explained to our newspaper.

There have been disputes between various currents among NIS progressives for a long time, which, according to Danas sources, Sotirovski’s entry into the party less than three years ago, as well as his rapid advance, “were not pacified, but deepened even more”. According to our sources, such disagreements were one of the key reasons why the SNS Municipal Board was dissolved in March 2015, and the Nis branch of the party still functions at the commission level.

In April 2018, during civil protests over the state’s takeover of Nis “Konstantin Veliki” airport, Vučić himself angrily assessed that the takeover was “complicated” by divisions within the Niš SNS. A year earlier, the president of the SNS EB, Glisic, specified that “there are three currents” in the Nis board of the SNS, and that the party sees this as a problem.

Jovanovic: Small local authorities must show obedience to the supreme authority of the party

Giving mail to the deceased religious leader and to institutions outside the church is a common “ritual” not only in our country, but also in Catholicism and other religions. Regardless of the principle of separation of state and religion, religious institutions are always a political actor and an important one, Djokica Jovanovic, a retired sociologist of culture and university professor, told Danas.

– We have known here since the time of the League of Communists what “general line of the party” means, or what the Russians would say “a principle”. Today that party line is even stronger, and that kind of dogmatism is even greater, so the small local authorities must demonstrate commitment and obedience to the supreme authority of the party, there is no other for them – esteem.

– For more than half a century, we have inherited the institute of the “monolith” in politics, and that kind of political culture teaches that if such a monolith explodes, the entire building of the State will collapse. Serbia is not unique in the world even after that. Although everyone’s mouth is full of democracy, that kind of political and ideological barracks has been happening in many parts of the world lately – concludes Jovanović.

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