The Parliament of Montenegro today amended the Law on the Royal Dynasty of Petrović-Njegoš, thereby returning “Kruševac” Castle in Podgorica, its former winter residence, built in 1891, to the dynasty.
It is also envisioned that, along with the Castle, the belonging land will be given to the descendants of the dynasty, and that the costs of reconstruction and equipping will be borne by the state from the capital budget.
The law also states that the descendants of the dynasty cannot sell “Kruševac” Castle, nor alienate the land in any other way, but rather the only “buyer” can be the state at a price determined on the day of acquisition of ownership.
Provisions that predicted that, if the most famous Montenegrin dynasty has no descendants along the male line, the tradition should be continued by the oldest female child, were removed from the law.
The amendment to the law predicts that the work of the Petrović-Njegoš Foundation will be financed with 100,000 euros annually from the state budget.
The President of the Parliament of Montenegro, Andrija Mandić, stated that “this is a great day for Montenegro”.
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He said he believes that based on this law “the return of property to the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and other religious communities, and also to our Karađorđević dynasty, will start… so that it does not end only with (the return of) what was confiscated in 1918, but also what was confiscated in 1945, to be returned to the people to whom it belonged”.
In the text of the law, it is written that the year 1918 was a “violent annexation of Montenegro by Serbia” because the ruling “Europe Now” Movement (PES) gave up on deleting the adjective “violent”.
A part of the analysts claimed that the story around the word “violent” was in fact a “smoke screen” for hiding the intention to return property to the Karađorđevićs.
At the end of last year, PES first requested that the word “violent” be deleted, only to give up on that request of theirs in April, after sharp reactions from a part of the public.
The Democratic People’s Party (DNP) and the New Serb Democracy (NSD) then fully requested the deletion of Article 1 of that law, which contains the term “violent annexation”, requesting that even the word “annexation” not be written.
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Source: Nova.rs; Photo: Turistička organizacija Podgorica