Good morning! DNP nominates a member of the Rogozin’s “Rodina” regime as ambassador to Moscow, then votes against Kosovo’s entry into the Council of Europe. Before that, Mandic and Dodik held an anti-Bosnian demonstration in Podgorica. PES and Democrats stand in solidarity with DF and refrain from sanctions against Russia in the European Parliament. Has the agreement on coalition behaviour ceased to be valid?
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Are Front members violating coalition agreement?
This is what the news from Paris looked like yesterday: “The Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe gave a positive opinion yesterday regarding Kosovo’s request to become a member of this organization, with 31 MPs voting “in favour”, four were against and one restrained. Two votes against were from representatives of Serbia, and one vote against each from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, while Greek representative Alexis Tsipras abstained. Democratic People’s Party MP Maja Vukicevic from Montenegro voted against”.
Mrs. Vukicevic is the chairperson of our delegation in the Council of Europe and vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. She is a pro-Russian politician in the European forum that ensures that agreed conventions related to human rights, democracy and the rule of law are respected on the European continent.
So much for our parliamentary diplomacy. But what can we expect when this executive diplomacy is led by a man who cold-bloodedly suggests that our ambassador in Moscow be a member of Rogozin’s ultra-right “Rodina”, whose father is the president of the international committee of that party. Both close to the Chechen dictatorial regime.
We are all pretending that everything looks OK. But it doesn’t. While one part of the coalition is strongly pushing towards the EU, the other part is turning the country towards Russia. We focused on crossing out everything, while neglecting the general value-based political orientation of the country.
Before that, we had a scene from the European Parliament in which the Democrats and PES stood in solidarity with DF and refrained from sanctions against Russia. It seems to me that Andrija and Milan are fooling us all. They are playing good and bad cops with the coalition in power, and with all of us in the country. One plays hard, the other plays soft.
And everything is supervised by the head from Belgrade and the deputy head from Banja Luka. Until the deputy head is fired. And it could happen that he will be. He is a threat to Vucic and Vucic knows it well. You have to race with him to prove who the bigger Putinophile is. The Russians equalized them with the medal.
In general, cuts must be made when the time comes. As things stand in America, Trump’s victory is no longer as certain as it seemed until recently. Vucic goes all-in again. So, in 2016, he played on Hillary, and after that on Trump. He lost both times, but he swam in the post-election events.
All this spills over into Montenegro. The reflections of the American election campaign and the war in Ukraine will have more and more influence on where Montenegro moves. IBAR we will allow us to cross the water, but after it there will be challenging times for the ruling coalition in Montenegro. Budva will be a good warm-up for the hot political autumn.
That’s it for today. We wish you a pleasant rest of the day.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst and columnist
(The opinions and views of the authors of the columns are not necessarily those of the CdM editorial staff)
