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Shkruar nga Samir Kajoseviç
It's no wonder that Independence Day is celebrated not with Italian tenors, but with Latin singers worn out by musical tours. A country that couldn't appreciate the Rolling Stones above the foam of the sea deserves to celebrate it with Ricky Martin and Baja Mali Knindža.
Before May 21st became Montenegro's Independence Day, Ricky Martin was already coming to terms with the fact that he was no longer a global star. With album sales plummeting and "Livin' la Vida Loca" no longer filling stadiums, the former sex symbol was preparing for an early retirement.
At that stage, tours were becoming the exception and their hits were only played on 1990s radio stations or in backward provinces. It was a time of surrogate children, living on royalties, and when even retired stars wouldn't dream of singing at national holiday celebrations.
While Ricky Martin was preparing for his musical retirement in 2006, Montenegro was living a second youth. Once the poorest republic of the Yugoslav Federation, it behaved like the “Luxembourg of the Balkans” and enjoyed the attention of suspicious foreign investors.
The duet of Sergej and Danijel was heard, while the citizens were not very concerned about the chronic lack of democracy. In the background, speeches about reconciliation and a Montenegro without losers were constantly played, while in the Constitution, after the ecological state, the citizen was also mentioned.
"The father of the nation was" in one of his most powerful phases - and such states usually mean a goal in mind and 1,000 broken promises, after which there is no regret.
Now there will surely be such in these frequent May days, when the country celebrates independence. Many voters will admit that in May 2006, they did not imagine such a state and will remember all its wrong turns.
They will understand that the state is not protected by flags, but by independent institutions, and that for salvation from the "Kurta e Murta" they will pray to Brussels like Saint Basil. When their hearts are calmed by prayer, perhaps they will admit that in these two decades Montenegro has progressed somewhere.
The "private state" that Peđa Bulatović prophesied about no longer exists, where wealth was reserved only for brothers and godfathers. Over time, many civil servants also grew fat at the state table, without whose seal nothing was done.
Meanwhile, the state was successfully transformed into a joint-stock company where capital is divided according to political strength. In “JSC Montenegro”, state dividends are still used today to bill the historic “Yes” and to heal the traumas of 2006, the flags wave only poverty, while state shareholders continue to tear apart the homeland piece by piece.
Smuggling has evolved from a family business into an economic sector. It is no longer a state job reserved for the elite, so anyone who is willing to take the risk and put their head in the bag can become a smuggler.
Legal oblivion covered the smuggling bards from the Bar indictment, but today Montenegro can boast of clans that are heard about further afield than Italy. Citizens are no longer divided into sovereignists and unionists, but into skaljars and kavčans, while Montenegrin youth no longer sit in employment offices, but communicate on the Sky platform, shoot in the streets and pack drugs.
Political ideals no longer clash between parties, let alone godfathers. Therefore, there is no longer a division between the government and the opposition, which made the "transgressions" of Pajović and Đurović unforgivable.
Almost everyone has already been in the government - except for the lost experts and parties below the electoral threshold - while in the cabinets, instead of ministers, holograms that receive salaries may even sit.
There is no longer any elitism in the state administration, so even ordinary people can become civil servants. All that is needed is good will and a diploma that no one will ask at which "outlet" it was purchased.
The judiciary is no longer dependent on a single political sponsor, while the media is free to change their masters without fear. The promise of the honest intelligentsia that democracy would come after the state was fulfilled decades later.
Instead of the referendum veterans, it was brought by the Orthodox Church, so many voters and politicians feel obligated to it in every vote. This is also the reason why our politicians and voters are increasingly religious, although they follow with great attention the fugitives of the AI as they spread the "dirty laundry" of others.
In such a Montenegro, it is no wonder that Independence Day is celebrated not with Italian tenors, but with Latin singers who have fallen from the meal. A country that did not know how to appreciate the Rolling Stones above the foam of the sea deserves to celebrate with Ricky Martin and Baja Mali Knindža.
And when they admit us into the European Union in 2028, we will demand that they bring Taylor Swift or at least Bad Bunny to Independence Square./ "Vijesti"
Ky vici te shkoje ande nga stepat e Mongolise ku e ka vendin e mos fuse hundet ne punet e Shqiptareve.
Mire e paskan gjetur Ricky bythen, ju lumte!