By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
The Serbian World, among other things, includes one, unique, electoral unit.
People call it election tourism. And actually, it’s a lot less fun and relaxed than that. It is election rigging: moving the voting mass from one corner of the Serbian World to another, so that the candidate of Aleksandar Vucic wins everywhere and always.
We saw it in Podgorica and Kotor. And before, we saw it during the “magnificent religious processions”, when biomass was imported from Serbia and the Bosnian-Herzegovinian entity of the Serb Republic (RS). DPS stole the elections, you say? And that is the justification for the obvious electoral crime carried out by the ruling party today? Is that a justification for the suspension of the democratic order in the municipalities where the lithium, sorry – the litany government cannot win (see Savnik)?
Manus manum lavat (*cooperation leads to accomplishment). Just as Dodik helped Vucic win the elections in Belgrade by having brought by buses the voters who were then disembarked at the polling stations, yesterday Vucic helped Dodik win in Srebrenica and Trebinje in the same way. Vukanovic spoke about the situation in Trebinje: https://www.cdm.me/svijet/region/vukanovic-razocaran-rezultatima-izbora-u-trebinju-imali-smo-protiv-sebe-crnu-goru-i-srbiju/
Cazim Durakovic, vice president of the RS, spoke about how the elections in Srebrenica were rigged.
Here’s what he says: https://www.slobodna-bosna.ba/vijest/379231/camil_durakovic_o_izborima_u_srebrenici_kao_da_se_odrzavaju_u_srbiji_parking_se_trazi_k_o_na_vracharu.html
So, that is the so-called international justice for Srebrenica? The victims get the cemetery, the Memorial Center, the visits of foreign officials who like to take pictures there and utter phrases faded from repetition, such as “never again”. And the other side gets all the power, and the permission to maintain that power through election machinations. Such justice is the very definition of injustice.
Vucic has long treated the elections in Montenegro as an internal issue of Serbia. What was the response of the Quint counties to his “battle for Niksic”? That he should be allowed to decide the elections in Montenegro not only with money, influence on the puppet government and the media, but also with the “free flow” of his voters, which he sends from place to place to win electoral victories in cities and countries where they do not live.
I have a question, actually two, for the Quint. Obvious, indisputable electoral engineering does not harm the state of democracy in the region? And that doesn’t destabilize the region? And here is the third one: Don’t you think, perhaps, that the fact that the citizens of the region, who watch with their own eyes how Vucic, with your silence, meaning permission, rigs elections in other, independent and sovereign states, must necessarily read your epistles on democracy and the rule of law as a parody and an outpouring of cynicism in cerebellum, is good – neither for us, nor for you?
And the truth is the following. The Belgrade dictator is allowed not only to destroy democracy in Serbia, but to carry out the same destruction in the region unhindered.
It has been seen so many times: a dictatorial government uses democracy as a way to seize the throne, only to abolish it or, more effectively, create an empty shell out of it, like a shell of a crab stranded on a sandy beach, which can only fascinate preschool children, those who like to turn over the rest of the dead animal with a stick and touch it with their fingers.
If someone from the opposition thinks that after the elections in Podgorica, or any future elections in Montenegro in which they win, they will be allowed to walk into the institutions and take over power, they do not thoroughly understand what happened here on 30 August 2020.
If Vucic’s attempt at ethnic and electoral engineering in Montenegro passes under the guise of the new citizenship law, any formal reason to hold elections in this country disappears.
(The opinions and views of the columnist are not necessarily those of the CdM editorial staff)
