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PM Krivokapić – Where and when is the beginning of the official and the end of the private?

Zdravko Krivokapić

The Prime Minister Mr Zdravko Krivokapić congratulated the President of the Serb Republic (RS), Ms Željka Cvijanović, on the unconstitutional Day of the Serb Republic, his Office has announced.

A PM offering private congratulations. Scandalous, to say the least.

This has opened some really important issues.

How come that the Prime Minister carries out privately the state politics when Ms Cvijanović thanked him as Prime Minister Krivokapić, not as a citizen, professor, head of an NGO, the president of a party nor as a list leader?

Does the move that Mr Krivokapić has made mean that there are two types of politics that he is carrying out?

A private and official.

One could conclude, judging by the latest event, that there is politics that Mr Krivokapić covertly carries out on behalf of the state (a private phone call from the position of a state official without informing the public) and one that is public, and he carries it out as a prime minister.

The citizens rightfully wonder, does that mean that Mr Krivokapić publicly speaks of Montenegro as a next EU member state, whereas privately, he acts the opposite and maybe advocates some other union, with some other values?

What about diplomacy, international relations, signed agreements? What about debts, projects, internal affairs?

How to interpret from a distance Mr Krivokapić’s statements? How will the citizens differ between his private opinion and the Prime Minister’s attitude?

Do the opposite statements that he makes have something to do with the private-official duality?

When he promises a better future and Swiss life, does he do it as a citizen, privately, or as a state official, elected by the people’s will?

If the former is the case, then he is not obligated to fulfill the promise, should the latter be the case, he is because the citizens expect him to do so.

The citizens are posing the question on social networks: does the Prime Minister, when he is not a Prime Minister, has an opinion which he does not agree with when he is a Prime Minister?

The public wonders, when and where does the official end, and the private begin?

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