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URA facing problems

Ljubomir Filipović

By Ljubomir Filipović

The people who really run URA, who stand behind this inexperienced team they keep in the show window, are not stupid. However, they’re not politicians either. They have the economic and profitable way of thinking. Ideology and values, representing “goods” that should be traded on the political market, have become elusive for them. Therefore, they’re guided by purely mathematical and Machiavellian principles. Their “prince” Abazović should not try to reform the society, but only see what’s needed and produce a lot of it – arrests, populism, lies, trampling and humiliation of Cetinje, congratulations to Novak Đoković and support from the Serbian Orthodox Church. And what they worked out best is that the Serbian electorate in Montenegro represents the best ground for their growth.

It’s why the Civic Movement URA gave up on the sovereign electorate and “hard Montenegrin nationalists” long time ago, as they call everyone who does not agree with the “dual identity”, so URA supporters from Cetinje quickly took off their T-shirts featuring photos of Krsto Zrnov Popović and removed the so-called Gaetuše so as not to provoke their new electorate – supporters of religious processions, urban Chetniks, naïve Yugoslavs and the “new sovereigntists”.

Civil opposition members – sovereigntists, who cannot forgive DPS and SDP for being in power for too long, will not vote for URA this time either, because they realized that they were deceived on August 30. They are aware that URA has literally handed over the state to an external factor, that it’s given culture, education, and the university to Serbian nationalists – all for a moment of glory. They’re aware that if they vote for URA, they actually vote for the Democratic Front, DF, and their candidate in the election.

Although the sea of the “Serbian world” is attractive and large, it’s also quite stormy. Real leaders of URA overestimated themselves and set sail on it with a small sailboat. They forgot to include identity as a very important factor in voter preferences, especially in an increasingly heated political atmosphere. They are now trying to compensate by emphasizing Orthodoxy in their videos, but it’s not going well.

It’s why URA supporters in the town of Nikšić publicly urge residents of this town to vote for Democrats, not URA. I’ve been trying to figure out why this is happening and it may be for several reasons:

URA’s list in Nikšić is weak and utterly repulsive for the Serbian electorate – which is the only one they have now – because it’s led by Ms Tanja Bečanović, who, despite trying to erase her “ugly Montenegrin past” now, cannot hide old photos with Mr Jevrem Brković, for example.

In addition, a large number of people, who, in the transitional period following 30 August moved from the DPS to URA, was detected. People from this town still remember Mr Drago Đurović and URA, which used to be ‘Positivna’ before rebranding.

For these reasons, billboards across Nikšić emphasize Dritan the Great Arrester Abazović, while local small leaders are in his background. It’s the lesson they learned from their idol, Mr Aleksandar Vučić. Even their raincoats are the same as the SNS’s, only painted purple.

Another reason is a distrust of some people that URA can pass the census, and they are afraid of dispelling votes in the final act of “liberation of Nikšić” whose police have already been released by URA’s member, Mr Rade Milošević, after which followed the celebration until late at night with a nationalist show, tricolors and fireworks.

 

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