Good morning! Lekic got the signatures, URA says it’s going to be a European government, while their coalition partner is sending the Ukrainian president to a Chechen prison.
Miodrag Lekic next prime minister
Yesterday, the DF MPs stated that the signatures supporting Miodrag Lekic were submitted to President Djukanovic, adding that they request the consultations over the formation of a government. Their dominant behavior already shows who’s going to take the lead. The DF leaders are the ones announcing the submission of signatures, they are the ones submitting them, they set out conditions. It’s as if others don’t exist. URA’s telling the same things as in 2020 – that the foreign policy course won’t change, that they’d insist on keeping control over the security sector. It’s like the Democrats don’t exist either even though are a part of the agreement.
While Ana Novakovic Djurovic promises the European government, one of the MPs is spreading the Putin propaganda in the parliament. He says Zelensky should be put in Kadyrov’s prison. The prison where homosexuals were tortured and disappeared in Chechnya. In which critics of the regime disappeared. And these are the European messages of the new majority.
But let’s see who’s going to be our new prime minister and how his role can affect the work of the government. Miodrag Lekic is a Montenegrin diplomat, known for his unusual patriotic-sovereignist views in the early 1990s. At that time, he was the Montenegrin Foreign Affairs Minister. Following the DPS’ dissolution and the beginning of Podgorica’s distancing from Belgrade in 1997, Lekic remained loyal to Belgrade, and is remembered for being the ambassador of Slobodan Milosevic’s government in Rome during the NATO intervention in 1999, where he publicly criticized the bombing of FRY.
He’s a university professor, educated in Paris. He speaks several foreign languages. He was the Yugoslav ambassador to South African countries, and also had lectures at Italian universities.
In 2011, Lekic involved in Montenegrin politics and in 2013, being the leader of the Democratic Front, he lost the presidential race, while Filip Vujanovic won. Following conflicts with the Front’s management, along with Goran Danilovic, he set up Demos – a political entity he’s still running.
He entered the parliament through the coalition with the Democrats in 2020, but acted independently as the leader of his movement.
He harshly criticized the government of Zdravko Krivokapic and the two often had heated debates in the parliament.
According to the announcements, the government is going to include both the current and new constituents, while the prime minister is going to cast the deciding vote.
The question is how they’re going to split power. If the DF and the SNP get the majority in parliament, why does Vucic need Miodrag Lekic? The point is that this government will be even more controlled by Belgrade, and that the DF’s sabotaging of the Montenegrin state and institutions will come to light even more. Maybe that’s not bad. Maybe this should have happened in 2020, so that now we’re recovering from it. However, the people voted for it. If Andrija Mandic had been prime minister and Milan Knezevic head of police, why would that have been worse than it is now? Everything’d have been the same, but we wouldn’t lose two years.
That’s all for today. Until tomorrow.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM observer
