President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic, announced on Sunday that the request for cutting short the current mandate of parliament might be re-sent, noting that he would not do it, but that “there’s a possibility for the parliamentary group counting 25 MPs to do it”.
In an exclusive interview for Voice of America (VoA), President Djukanovic says that he’s going to continue with “various initiatives, strictly adhering to the Constitution”, assessing that there’s only one likely scenario in the end – a snap parliamentary election.
He considers that Montenegro has been facing the crisis since 2015, when, as he claims, due to the pro-Western course of Montenegro and its intention to join NATO, followed by the 2016 coup attempt, the work of parliament has been continuously hindered.
Russia’s hybrid pressure carried out with the help of proxies from the Balkans continued during the next four years. Russia, as part of its strategy to destabilize Europe, playing with retrograde policies in every part of Europe, decided to reactivate greater-state nationalism in the Western Balkans, so that during those four years it could strengthen greater-state nationalism in our region.
Meanwhile, another player gets into the game – the Serbian Orthodox Church – so there’s double destruction when it comes to pressures on Montenegro, the greater-state, the Greater Serbian idea, which has never given up on the right to integrate Montenegro into Greater Serbia or the Serbian World, or into the ‘lobby’ of the Serbian World called the ‘Open Balkan’ project.
“Considering such hybrid pressure on Montenegro, the year 2020 led to a change of government and since then until now we’ve had two governments, which proved to be governments that faithfully served Greater Serbian nationalism, clero-nationalism and Russian interests in Montenegro. In the end, these two governments actually contributed to the institutional crisis we’re facing in Montenegro now,” Mr Djukanovic points out.
He also announces that he’ll continue to run the action “striving to bring us to the only possible solution – snap parliamentary elections so that Montenegro gets an unquestionable, competent, nationally responsible government which will continue to lead the country on the path to the EU integration”.
