Good morning! DPS is to run in these elections with a rejuvenated list. The same thing is with its partners. Is this enough to repeat the success of Djukanovic from the first round, or are the estimates of public opinion surveys correct and a big drop can be expected?
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Together and Boring
A video of the coalition led by DPS was released yesterday. A real opposition spot. But it still lacks energy. Mehmet Zenka speaking in Albanian in front of the Montenegrin flag is a powerful message. In the video, Zoja Bojanic Lalovic showed with her charisma that she can be counted on for many serious matters. Others have to work with professionals. There are too many general places in the messages. The lighting is poor.
DPS has created this campaign without emphasizing the leader. The emphasis was not even on the party, but on the coalition. A better manifesto has also been created. Still, it’s quite weak.
The effort deserves grade A, but that effort to satisfy all the messages and advice of self-friendly public opinion turned into mush, and the campaign has not delivered as much as was expected of it. After the defeat of Djukanovic, DPS decided to remove the rascal part of politics from the rascal-geek approach to politics. The campaign was kosher, but it seems in the end that Montenegrins still like greasy politics.
You can’t fault the people on the DPS list. Lola, Bojanic Lalovic, Zivkovic, Janovic, Nikolic. Then SD’s Mugosa, and LP’s Belan. And many others, which I cannot count. But that is not enough. A culture of non-resentment is a culture of mediocrity. Maybe someone just needed to hold a grudge against someone and thus give life to this list. By stepping on eggs, taking care not to offend anyone and at the same time to please everyone, they killed themselves. SDP further derailed them with its suicidal move at the end of the negotiations.
Any percentage above 25% for the Together coalition will be a success, if we believe the surveys. The question is what DPS will do with that 25%. As a final ambush for Spajic, public opinion showed that DPS was indeed replaced. For the first time, they were not the focus of the campaign.
The DPS vote is similar to the Reversal vote. It soothes the conscience, but it is politically barren. Many of their former voters flew to Spajic with a clientelist instinct, as soon as the perception that he was the new government was established. The new government means stability, but also new opportunities. Career, finances, etc.
However, the question arises, when the elections are over, can DPS be imposed as a partner to the new authorities? Can it affect the election of the new government? A natural, manifesto-alike and stable government could only be formed with the participation of DPS. If the 30-August winners form a government again, we will have a worse repeat of two and a half years of instability. URA in the government would sabotage the efforts at every step. DF too.
But DPS is still radioactive for any combinations with anyone on the other side. It seems that we are doomed to another period of instability in which our destinies will be decided by the maniacal leadership of URA, which has seized the state’s levers of power and thinks that their power has no limits.
It would be ideal if DPS could influence the formation of a new government, which would remove the personnel of URA and DF from all institutions and companies, which they financially exhausted and destroyed. And that it can be offered as an alternative with the integrity of leaders and ideas. But, by all accounts, it is still early for such a thing. Neither the public nor they are ready for such a thing.
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 the columns are not necessarily those of the CdM editorial staff)
