The forthcoming presidential elections in Montenegro will obviously serve for positioning opposition parties and taking leading position among them. They will be less focused on election win and changes in the country, Dnevne Novine writes.
It is true that the opposition representatives, particularly the party leaders, know each other very well, since they often used to be members of same parties and have been on the political scene for a long time. Hence this enormous amount of dirty laundry has been presented these days.
The fierce attacks have been taking place on a daily basis because the campaign has already begun – not for the presidential candidate, but for collecting opposition votes. The surge in the support for the Democrats (DCG), primarily at the expense of the Democratic Front (DF), Socialist People’s Party (SNP), Demos and the URA Civic Movement, has provoked DF’s outrage and the unpleasant situation of others.
That is the reason for the positions of the SDP, GP URA and SNP that they will not support a DF candidate, but that they also hope Aleksa Becic will not run for the president. On the other hand, the Democrats continue their policy of not being involved, but everyone else has poor performance. It has paid off so far, but even their attempts to abolish themselves from all the previous failures of the opposition have been unsuccessful. Becic, as well as one of DF leaders, Milan Knezevic, until recently applauded to Srdjan Milic’s views and it turned out to be a losing variant.
There are similar relations between Goran Danilovic and Andrija Mandic, not to mention the relations of the entire DF towards Miodrag Lekic. They used to be together, and now they are accusing each other of working for the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS). And while the opposition is in the offside, the authorities score goals. A recent visit by US Vice President Mike Pence is an obvious example of this. Whereas Pence commended numerous things in Montenegro and thus the authorities, he had only a few minutes for the opposition, all but DF – enough to tell them to return to Parliament.
It seems that the offside position of the opposition will last until the second round of presidential elections. Then, according to the old good tradition, everyone will call the voters to vote for the opposition candidate, the same one they attacked before the election day. And, of course, after the defeat, the solution is – as before – not to recognise the elections.
It is now certain that until the famous second round the Montenegrin public will listen to dirty stories, sex, lies and video tapes, as well as the increasingly popular audio recordings, which opposition representatives threat each other with.
In order to get out of the current situation, some opposition parties consider returning to Parliament. However, it is a matter of proud – how to return to Parliament after Mike Pence recommended that. Had he not advised returning, perhaps they would have stated that it was one of the options. And they will come back. They just do not know when. They will wait for a month or two months – enough time to forget that the EU and the USA recommended exactly the same thing.
