By Andrej Nikolaidis, CdM columnist
This, people, isn’t working.
All this is beautiful: “NATO status needs to be strengthened” and “EU integration needs to be revived”…
But… The issue of cooperation is a matter of trust. The issue of trust is a matter of credibility. Where there is no credibility, there is no trust, and therefore no cooperation.
Confidence is certainly not instilled by the fact that neither of the two parties that should form not only the backbone, but practically the entire “minority” government, i.e. neither the URA nor the SNP, voted for Montenegro’s entry into the North Atlantic Alliance. Those two parties had other priorities when the most important foreign policy decision in the last half century of Montenegro was made.
URA saved the flamingos in the Ulcinj saltworks and defended the meadows in Sinjajevina with Amfilohije from the hated NATO, while the SNP made it clear that they would always vote for the Inform Bureau Resolution rather than for NATO.
Trust, of course, can be gained. But not by brutally abusing state resources on election day and carrying out a black-jeep invasion of Ulcinj. Not by responding to justified criticism with arrogance instead of admitting mistakes.
For example, here is an unpleasant, but legitimate question. It is not clear by what perverse logic is the party that killed Montenegrin EU integrations, URA, the solution for accelerating those integrations? URA is like a mother to European integration, who gets angry at a child and tells him in anger: I killed you, I will give birth to you. Let us remind ourselves: this is the party that immediately after the elections rejected the offer of the Bosniak Party to form a minority government, which the DPS was ready to support.
This country could, therefore, avoid a year and a half of destruction carried out by the government of which Abazovic was not a porter, but a Deputy Prime Minister – and thus the second most responsible for its wrong-doings. But no: they repeated the narrative of “equality of two nationalisms”, until it crossed their minds at Belvedere that the nationalism that destroyed Vukovar and Sarajevo would start four wars in 10 years (and lose all four, which is a world record: congratulations), commit ethnic cleansing and genocide – perhaps a little too aggressive for cooperation.
Let’s move on… Is it clear, although Gabriel Escobar’s instructions were given in diplomatic vocabulary, that the Front has no place in the government? So, what does the associated member of the Front, the most loyal member of the Front – Jokovic and his SNP, have to do within the new, minority government? Anyone who notices the difference between the views of the Front and the SNP on Russia, the church, Serbia, Montenegrins, the EU and NATO, deserves the Nobel Prize for imagination. Clear: that reward does not exist. Just as there is no difference between the Front and the SNP.
However, more than half of the ministerial positions in the new government, as well as the seats in the security sector, are intended for the Front – sorry, the SNP. It is always wise: to put the repressive apparatus in the hands of the Stalinists. What could go wrong? As Europe closes its ranks in the face of Russian aggression, Montenegro is preparing to hand over its government to a party that keeps Putin’s image in its wallet and Stalin’s in its heart.
In addition, the SNP determines who can and who cannot join the government, because of them, double agreements are being revised and made, with and without the genocide in Srebrenica and condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine…
May someone, for God’s sake, stop this circus. Which, in addition to being hard to watch, is a severe insult to intelligence.
A gram of cocaine on the table in front of two drug addicts is safer than Montenegro in the hands of Dritan and Jokovic.
The solution is not a minority, but a technical government.
The solution to the crisis is the most democratic of democratic procedures: elections.
Let the government get a mandate to prepare for the elections, that’s all.
Such a government should be as broad as possible, so that there would be confidence in the election process. According to all the rules, such a government must be led by a representative of the strongest party in Parliament – and that is, excuse me, the DPS.
Yes, Montenegro is in crisis. But to seek a solution in the hidden “honest, so who fucks whom” games of the throne is fundamentally wrong. If we are a democracy, and we are not; if we want to become a democracy, and supposedly we would – the solution to the crisis must be democratic.
Technical, not minority government, then.
