Good morning! I checked Facebook yesterday and fell into the hole of a dirty battle that activists of two factions of the former DF are fighting on the networks between themselves. I have never met so much filth and hatred in Montenegrin politics, and we know very well how dirty we can be. Here are some thoughts on the subject of my hometown and the political filth it can’t get out of.
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Dirty Budva politics
Someone said that there is a period when politicians are the only ones to be trusted, and that is the period when yesterday’s partners are arguing and dividing. That is why it is necessary to monitor the relationship between URA and the Democrats, who argue and reconcile from election to election and from situation to situation. At the moment when they argue, they start talking about each other things both right and wrong.
In Budva, the ruling coalition of yesterday fell into temptation as soon as they got hold of the authorities. First, they all together quite easily kicked the undisputed leader Bato Carevic, whose family members were convicted of stealing state property, which he managed without hiding it. Then Milo Bozovic, who ousted Bato from the post of mayor and ended up in prison for cocaine smuggling.
Now regent Jovanovic, who bought apartments from the Russians on favourable terms, accuses his rivals from Budva DF of being the political wing of some organized criminal groups.
The quarrel between the two groups knows no bounds and a bunch of anonymous accounts have been created on Facebook with the names “politically incorrect” and the like, in which these two groups accuse each other that the highest officials of both lists are behind these orders.
After the debacle with Pedja Zenovic last spring, PES is serving as a sidekick to the Democrats this time. As an invisible partner. All the leaders of the Democrats from the headquarters were present at the handover of the list, but no one from the PES was there. Or at least they weren’t in the photos. Interesting pace.
PES is almost non-existent in the richest city in Montenegro, and a city which, with unofficial and unregistered citizens, is now certainly the most populous city on the coast, and possibly the second largest after Podgorica.
The Democrats did not disperse after the departure of the popular spring list holder, Djordje Zenovic, who ran in the elections with his own list. He took part of the Democrats’ committee with him. We will see how much it will mess up his recent party comrades.
Djordje chose the strategy of not attacking his recent colleagues, similar to Dusko Markovic after leaving DPS. This strategy may cost Zenovic, because he is not direct enough when he criticizes the corrupt practices of his colleagues and yesterday’s associates.
The coalition gathered around the SDP in Budva made a good result and it will not be a problem to keep it. It is the same with URA. These lists are consistently above the census. This time there will be no CEP in the elections and that can be helpful to the SDP, and to DPS who can make a comeback. Still, they’ve had a bit of a boring campaign, so anything more than what they accomplished last spring would be a big surprise.
It could very easily happen that the elections will not resolve the issue again, which will leave the city in the hands of Milo Bozovic, who is still managing it from prison. Who knows whose interest this is all in.
That’s it for today and this week. See you again on Monday.
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)
