Good morning!
Elections are to be held in three cities on Sunday, and the government is to mark one year of its work on Monday. The Americans made it clear what they thought of this year. The opposition claims to have a majority to overthrow the government, the Prime Minister openly humiliates Parliament, and the KAP brings Abazovic to the ground. Meanwhile, Spajic is building castles on the clouds and gathering extremists on Twitter.
Andrej Nikolaidis solves some moral dilemmas in his new column Being against This Government is Not a Matter of Betrayal, But a Moral Imperative.
Criticism from America (and the EU as well)
In response to the Voice of America, the American Embassy made it clear that they were not impressed with the government’s performance, and that the year since the elections was marked by rising tensions and increasing polarization in society. It also warned of the interference and strengthening of the influence of the authoritarian Russian regime. The chairman of the European Parliament delegation in the Parliamentary Committee of the European Union and Montenegro on Stabilization and Association (POSP) Vladimir Bilcik, also said that the polarization in the country culminated in two events – the dismissal of Leposavic and the enthronement of the Serbian metropolitan.
The opposition has a majority to overthrow Govt?
After the POSP meeting, Parliament Speaker Aleksa Becic said that the Initiative for a vote of no confidence in the Government would be included in the agenda of the first next Parliament session, planned for mid-December. The opposition is convinced that it has a majority, and it seems as if it has prepared for this. Yesterday, Danijel Zivkovic repeated what Djukanovic hinted this earlier and said that he “claims” to have a majority, which means that the DPS stands behind this initiative with its authority, and that Konjevic liked the task of physically handing over the initiative to Parliament. Whether they have a majority or not, we will find out very soon.
Disrespecting Parliament
The Prime Minister is a man whose political illiteracy comes to light every day. And fortunately, with his character and authority, he has no potential to become an authoritarian leader, because his statements sometimes seem to have come out of Maoist textbooks. The last one, for example, where he says that when he sees that he should spend 20 hours somewhere, he decides to dedicate that time to reforms. Dear PM Krivokapic, if you are reading this, you or some of your associates – many reached out to sacrifice democracy for the sake of efficiency – each time it ended wrong.
Trouble with KAP
The government came into conflict with an unpleasant opponent. And I do not mean the inconveniences between the owner of the company and the director of the Environmental Protection Agency, which ended with a fine for Pejovic.
KAP is the largest consumer of electricity, and the energy system is at great risk due to bad weather conditions, bad situation on the international electricity market, and most importantly the bad management of EPCG. For that reason, the tensions are high, because the electricity is missing, and KAP needs to produce a lot of aluminum. And the state also lacks money for the salaries of those employed by Rovcanin, and for all of Spajic’s and Milatovic’s expensive toys. Without KAP, Montenegro would be a semi-industrial state, so now Abazovic is putting the ball down. No one is afraid of slapping in Montenegro anymore, but 500 families in the street cause fear.
In the text named What Does Minister Spajic Not Know?, my colleague Miras Dusevic explains in detail the misconceptions of the government and Minister Spajic, and reveals the ignorance of the highest state officials.
Rakcevic Zarko’s futile remorse
The former URA leader Zarko Rakcevic is going public again after half a year, to repeat why he left the position of the leader of the party council. And no matter how important his confession is, because it proves that a change of government would not betray the electoral will of the citizens – it is futile. It is useless because Zarko is politically impotent, and it proved when he was accompanied by only a few officials when he left the party. The people he created politically, like Bozena Jelusic, are now sitting in Parliament, and they can and could have prevented many bad things over the past year. They didn’t, though.
That’s it for today. Enjoy the weekend if you can.
P.S. People of Cetinje, Mojkovac and Petnjica – you know what you have to do. Don’t make mistakes like us in Budva.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst
