By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
After defeated in the presidential election, Djukanovic stepped aside as the leader of the DPS.
Damir Sehovic did what a leader would do: he withdrew and introduced young people who’re going to run in the forthcoming parliamentary election, along with the DPS.
The SDP will run in the election independently, but they’re also introducing new, young people.
It seems that all of these parties have finally heard the public’s clear messages: you need changes, new people.
But is it enough changes and enough new people?
Hardly so, but it certainly is the beginning.
The parties of the former sovereign majority finally concluded that they’re not synchronised with voters, particularly millennials.
They seem to have recognized the fact that, during their rule, generations of new voters have grown up who are, not only unresponsive to their narratives, but are irritated by them. Generations of voters have grown up for whom the old sovereigns are not defenders of independence, but generators of order that suffocates them.
These parties paid for it in all elections over the past three years – just like they’re going to pay for it in the forthcoming parliamentary election in June.
They say the famous UK gardener, when asked what a man should do to get a perfect British lawn, responded: a good seed, lot of water and 100 years.
Traditional sovereigns will need more or less the same time to return to power: a good seed of change, a lot of attention and a long time.
By ‘returning to power’ I mean: having a majority in government. There will be ex-sovereign plastic flowers in Spajic’s government as well. Some significant fan and political moves in that direction have already been taken.
OK: new, young people are coming. But if they behave like the old ones, it’s all for nothing. New people with new ideas do not mean clones of sovereign leaders, their Mini-Mes.
Only seemingly paradoxically, the Montenegrin opposition can be inspired by what the DF did in its attempts to gain power. They were really inventive: at the peak of their leaders’ unpopularity, when each of them had lost at least 20 elections and not a single victory, they hired a man to pretend to be the leader.
The Front is a conservative structure suffering from the fact that Pedja Bulatovic is a peer of Cheops’ pyramid. The left-of-center parties, which largely make up the Montenegrin opposition, do not have that luxury: they must offer at least the illusion of progressiveness.
And yet, the Front won only when it was no longer led by its leaders, but by Metropolitan Amfilohije.
What I wanna tell you. Nothing’s impossible and everything’s possible in several ways.
We thought we were the first next EU member state. But ended up as the first next member of the Open Balkan. We learned that there were no final victories in a hard way.
It’s exactly the place where hope resides. Because, if there are no final victories, it means that there are no final defeats either.
(The opinions and views of our columnists don’t necessarily reflect those of the editorial staff of CdM)
