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Many of us rightly wonder if the Prime Minister’s meeting with the President was the key to the fracture in the latter’s brain and the sudden turn towards yesterday’s enemies who so rudely kicked him out of the party. If the meeting was decisive, what exactly happened at it. Did Milojko tenderly apologize to Jakov and did he pardon him like Zirojevic, or maybe Jakov was facing some blackmail as claimed by the opposition? We cannot know that and everything will probably end on these guesses. What we have to do – and we want to – is that we can deal with the possible consequences of the agreement at the level of Podgorica, the rapprochement between Milojko and Jakov and the further development of the political situation.
Montenegro is not a democracy. Montenegro is a partocracy. Authoritarian competitive autocracy in which party leaders are authorities and delegates of power. Citizens ceremoniously participate in elections and give their support to impersonal tickets created by narrow party leaderships.
Like any autocracy, ours also tries to co-opt, that is, include and share power, with different individuals, pressure groups, but also the masses. Montenegro is small and there are not many people there. A fair share of people has been co-opted by clientelism, i.e. petty bribes. The more you are represented in the public space, the higher your price. The more votes or money you carry with you, the higher your price. Government affairs, turning a blind eye to illegality, turning a blind eye to all kinds of criminal combinations are reserved for powerful individuals and organized criminal groups. Prestige, power, court intrigue in our small community is just a special and tragicomic sport. Montenegro remained very poor for a good comedian who would deal with and expose the power games of Montenegrin politics.
What I am writing is our fate. That’s how things went during the DPS rule, and that’s how things are going now.
The last one to be co-opted was Jakov, who wobbled and squirmed to raise his price. In the end he sold himself. Jakov calculates, as everyone calculates on the political scene. It is possible that he came to the realization that he was punching way above his category, and that he had better make peace and return to the old flock. This means the complete consolidation of Serbian politics in Montenegro. Let’s remind you – PES, Democrats and DF are all part of the Serbian political platform in Montenegro. The only thing that separates PES and Milojko from others is that they are more tolerant towards Montenegrins – I mean us separatists as Vucic calls us.
So – this reconciliation and Jakov’s soothing – can only mean the consolidation of power. The fact that PES leaves and tolerates a few DPS members here and there and the fact that in Spajic’s inner circle there are poetesses who in their free time set Belveder on fire with their patriotic verses – means nothing. Preservation of the civic character of Montenegro, its independence and sovereignty, the preservation of the identity of Montenegro – needs much stronger guarantees than those that are now being offered to us on a spoon by those whose main network operators are guys like Nebojsa Babovic.
That’s it for today. We wish you a pleasant rest of the day.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst and columnist
(Columnists’ opinions and views are not necessarily those of CdM)
