State President Jakov Milatovic said on the national broadcaster TVCG that PM-designate Milojko Spajic should form the 44th Government as he formed a coalition after the elections in Podgorica. This means that the government should include both the For the Future of Montenegro (ZBCG) coalition and URA. Also, Milatovic said that he had not communicated with Spajic since the consultation in Cetinje and that they should have been in contact more.
And they used to communicate. They also gave each other birthday cakes. Jakov Milatovic, as Minister of Economic Development in the 43rd Government, in 2021, prepared a surprise at his workplace for the then Minister of Finance and Social Welfare, Milojko Spajic, for his 34th birthday. In the video posted by Milatovic on Twitter at the time, it is shown that he is carrying a birthday cake to Spajic and then giving him a warm hug. But it seems that the “carefree” ministerial days are over and that there are no more cakes or hugs.
It seems that Milatovic does not like the way Spajic thinks politically, and it is obvious that Spajic’s exclusion of ZBCG and URA is controversial to him. To make the dispute even more complicated, ZBCG has been publicly pressuring Milatovic all the time to “pressure” Spajic to include ZBCG in the Government, because, as they say, they deserved it because they invited their voters to vote for Milatovic in the presidential election. The pressure on Spajic continues through car convoy religious processions, from which they call for ZBCG to be part of the government as representatives of the Serbs.
Will Spajic resist the pressure and maintain his stance that ZBCG and URA should not be in the government, is a question that cannot remain unanswered for long. It is clear that Milatovic once again put a kind of pressure on Spajic, from the position of the president of the state and Europe Now Movement deputy leader.
