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President Milojko Spajic
If someone had mentioned Milojko Spajic’s name out of context a few years ago, it would have sounded cute and comical to people, as if it had sprung from some comedic work by Rados Bajic, which celebrates the pastoral-rural areas of Sumadija, its people and customs. But politics and power, calms down all our prejudices and local-fascism. This is how the name Milojko became normalized in Montenegro in these two years, as well as the nickname Mickey, which traditional machos could not forgive him for a long time. These are all healthy processes. Montenegro should get rid of stupid prejudices related to someone’s name, appearance, etc. We need to measure someone’s work and engagement.
Spajic, knowingly, or with someone’s prompting, very quickly bought the love of the masses. As if according to Vucic’s blueprint, he bought people for a few hundred euros a month. That is much better than €50 per vote for 4 years, but…
While his program Europe Now is marked by the parliamentary majority and minority as the culprit for galloping inflation and the crisis in healthcare, those €450 still resonate with people. That’s why Spajic uses them to the point of exhaustion. However, I think that story has worn off a bit. The flow of time takes its toll. In politics, successes are not remembered for long. I think that Spajic (although I believe more and more that it is the master mind behind Spajic) has become aware of this. Hence the final decision to run. Spajic’s candidacy, as someone rightly noted, may be a reconciliation with the fact that parliamentary elections will not be held in the near future. If they were not still arguing about supporting the candidacy, one would suspect that they had agreed behind the scenes on the government reshuffle, into which some from Europe Now would enter through the back door. Thus, Spajic is allowed to collect the cream of Europe Now (program), but he is not allowed to enter the government as prime minister. In that option, there would be room for everyone to get what they need. The only question is, what does DF have of all that? Or Democrats? DF can be dealt with by Vucic. With them, money can solve everything. Democrats, however, are looking for something more.
Spajic’s biography was without a doubt fiddled and it can be the subject of an investigative journalist. It’s a pity that we don’t have many of them, and those that we do have, spend their knowledge and talent on dealing with the remnants of the former regime. While they struggle with the ruins of the outgoing power, the new power strengthens and consolidates. There will be whining later, when it gets stronger. For now, criticism and monitoring of Spajic is limited to Nebojsa Medojevic talking nonsense and Zeljko Ivanovic’s blackmails. Medojevic entertains the crowd with the story that Spajic is a thief, but he actually helps him with nebulous accusations, because he discredits the real criticism.
We know where Spajic came from and we are aware of the influence and connections with the Serbian world and the Serbian Orthodox Church. However, this seems to be a condition for success in Montenegrin politics. Every political candidate must be vetted by the Serbian Church. That was the case with Djukanovic and Dritan, who incidentally acquired the title of honorary, not to say “honest Albanian”. With Djukanovic, it was a long but fleeting phase. It is still going on with Abazovic. So – Spajic could also be forgiven for his initial partnership with the Serbian Church, if he showed that he could separate himself from that trough.
Nevertheless, Nikolaidis’s “wild horse of Serbian nationalism” is a difficult animal to tame. When you ride it, you need to come to terms with the fact that it will lead you where it intends to go. All radicalism is like that. After coming to power, a politician tries to calm things down, to balance and maintain power. But no sedative or all the hay in the world will make a wild horse change direction. Jockey Spajic can hardly control the forces represented in his movement by many people, perhaps the majority. I am not referring here to Minister Injac, she did cross herself in front of former prime minister Krivokapic in Parliament, but she showed that this does not obligate her to be loyal to him. As she was not to DPS, either. Here I am referring to the evil spirit that makes some young people in that movement insult fellow citizens and neighbors because they do not celebrate what they celebrate. It is precisely this spirit that is Spajic’s greatest limitation.
That’s it for today. We wish you a pleasant rest of the day.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst and columnist
(The opinions and views of the authors of columns are not necessarily those of the CdM editorial staff)
