Good morning! Yesterday’s PMQs reminded us once again what kind of state circus we live in and what kind of clown is leading us. A dangerous clown.
Montenegrin Seselj
This is what Dritan called Damir Sehovic yesterday, comparing his Social Democrats Party with the Serbian Radical Party, which had paramilitary units in the wars of the 1990s, which committed and called for crimes in those wars, and which ethnically cleansed villages in Vojvodina.
Abazovic called out Sehovic for extremism while joking with Milan Knezevic, a pro-Russian Serbian nationalist, convicted in the first instance of organizing a conspiracy with Russian GRU agents and planning a coup d’état.
Milan and Dritan are the most famous bromances of the Montenegrin political scene. A distorted version of Boro Vukmirovic and Ramiz Sadiku. Just for the Open Balkans. Boro and Ramiz from Ali Express to Yugoslavia from Ali Express.
All this would be funny, if it weren’t dangerous. Abazovic sees extremists and chauvinists among Montenegrins, while he goes to celebrations of extremist organizations where the Night Wolves, Tvrdos members, and other “humanitarian organizations” meet. At such events, the Prime Minister is the guest of honor.
While Abazovic antagonizes and threatens activists, journalists and writers, while he labels the media as quasi-media that protect crime, no one reacts.
Imagine what the embassy announcements would look like if someone did that for Vijesti. It would shake all the way to Brussels and Washington. But now, silence.
It was disgusting to watch clips from the PMQs yesterday. You need to have the stomach for such things. Those with a weaker metabolism would not be able to withstand that amount of cringe. While Milan and Dritan were performing the mise-en-scene of Konstraka’s song, I had the feeling that we had returned to the time of the dominance of Belgrade pop music in Montenegro. I guess that means being part of the Open Balkans. Worshiping Porfirije and Novak, listening to Konstrakta, reading Beckovic and Radodajkovic, watching Kusturica. This is the cultural pattern that Abazovic is forcing on us, and which he will probably implement when he gets rid of the Montenegrin fascists in the National Council for Culture.
What can we hope for politically? The Djukanovic-Abazovic agreement institutionalized the status quo until the elections, which will be held in October, or whenever they are agreed upon. Once the Constitution was violated, now they can do it whenever they want. They could be organized in the spring together with the presidential election, or in 2024 with the parliamentary one. Until then, the patience of the Montenegrins will be bought with employments, which will lead them, so satisfied, to re-education. Those who do not adapt will be removed, marginalized or imprisoned.
This society needs courageous leadership that is ready to compromise. But a compromise of equal concessions, not a compromise to the detriment of one side. This society does not need the antagonism and marginalization of anyone. Antagonism and marginalization create conditions for additional radicalization of people. Playing the dove of peace, Abazovic incites divisions in Montenegro. He is ready to sacrifice peace in Montenegro for peace between Albania and Serbia.
I don’t worry about Abazovic. He probably fantasizes about his political retirement in Belgrade, where he will be a demonstrable minority for the tabloid media. He probably fantasizes about spending his life in Belgrade bars with Bazdulj, Beckovic, Djuro Radodajkovic. And may he do so, as long as he doesn’t do it over Montenegro’s back.
The twilight zone we have fallen into will only make the young and talented emigrate even more, because our economy is reduced to good employments and borrowing for that purpose.
While investments and alternative incomes to cover the minuses of social income will be less and less.
Maybe that’s part of the plan – to cripple Montenegro economically, bring it into a position of dependence on Serbia and prove that it is economically unsustainable, as the opponents of independence claimed.
That’s it for today. See you again tomorrow.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst
