By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
So, where have we got to when it comes to the shameful, servile, scornful Agreement with the Church of Serbia, after the meeting between Abazovic and Djukanovic?
The water, mother, from Misko’s trough does not help. He can spin to his heart’s content, but Dritan is the bottom here. Luckily. For his own good and the good of this country.
Why?
The signing of the Agreement has been postponed.
In order to remain prime minister, Abazovic has agreed to postpone the signing and open a public debate. What he intends to sign will be clearly shown as unconstitutional, illegal and unacceptable in that discussion.
Of course, he can sign the Agreement despite that. It is quite possible that he will.
But then the effect of that act will be even more severe for him than if he signed it today or tomorrow, without discussion, as he originally intended. The arguments presented by HRA and CGO, for example, are irrefutable. And devastating. And that’s just the beginning. There will be more. Much more.
Europeans have no understanding for his Agreement.
He threatened what they allowed him to become prime minister for, what his government was put together for. During the meeting with Borrell, in Podgorica, in response to my claim that Abazovic’s priority is not EU integration but the adoption of the Agreement with the Church of Serbia and the Open Balkans, a high-ranking EU official told me that Abazovic promised him that EU integration was what he was interested in and asked for support for that. Borel takes him at his word. This is a man, a type of man, who should not be lied to. It goes without saying: it’s one thing when you lie to Becic or Zdravko, and a completely different thing when you try to do it with Borrell.
The EU is Montenegro’s absolute priority. By entering the EU, this country, this society, permanently leaves the reach of the malignant influence of Serbia and Russia, the influence that is destroying Montenegro. It is a goal worth fighting for. It is a goal that requires wisdom and patience, which Djukanovic showed today.
The matter is very simple: either we go towards the EU, or we go towards the Open Balkans in addition to being Serbia’s satellite. After Abazovic’s meeting with Djukanovic, we are at least a millimeter away from the latter.
The decision to open a public discussion and postpone the signing of the Agreement with the Church of Serbia is a good one: one of the best that Abazovic has made.
It is good for him, it is good for Montenegro.
The policy that moves Montenegro away from the EU will receive, as before, harsh, accurate and fair criticism.
If he continues to insist on the disastrous Agreement he was about to sign, all those hands patting him on the shoulder will disappear, retreat into darkness.
He will be left alone with what he did.
