Good morning! Despite the disastrous results of the Kotor municipality, the coalition of Democrats and PES, led by Jokic of the Democrats, managed to achieve a good result. Jokic and the Democrats failed in the previous few elections in that city, so it is normal to assume that this success should be attributed to PES. What happened, the visit of the Serbian patriarch and the concert of the Serbian singing society, or PES really has someone down there who knows what the party work is. Unlike other cities.
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What happened in Kotor?
I just wanted to write about saving private Kadic and how the election results in Montenegro are transparently collated from election to election in order to fix the result, but it seems that the Municipal Election Commission and State Election Commission are doing their job honestly. If the complaints were accepted, the elections would be repeated and then Kadic’s partners would step in to support him to enter the parliament. But Kadic, like Leposavic, despite his conservative Russian-Serbian policy and a strong base of support in those far-right circles, did not prove to be a good politician. Neither he, nor those who played on him.
Let’s go back to Kotor. Before the elections, we wrote about the problems in this city. About the problems that are visible to us who pass through Kotor or stop by from time to time. Kotor is our identity card, and a city of immeasurable cultural importance. It is our Venice and our Dubrovnik. And we turned it into a dilapidated and forgotten museum, which is difficult to reach.
The first time I entered America ten years ago, the border policeman, from whom I least expected it, when he saw my passport, said that he had been to Kotor. Yesterday at a dinner here in Phoenix, the waitress mentioned Kotor as well. It is mentioned by many, mostly thanks to cruisers. Because there is no other way to reach it.
It’s the city where part of my family met the sea for the first time. It’s the city where the people of Budva are still mostly born because they have no place to be born in Budva, although Budva is now more populous than Kotor.
Kotor is critically important for our Montenegrin civic and Bokelian identity that both the old and the new governments have turned into what it is now – the appendix of the Montenegrin coast.
I don’t know the political scene, but I believe my friends who live there and vote for different parties, when they say that there was no choice in these elections. Nevertheless, PES made a score there. DPS remained solid, but did not follow Podgorica’s success. DF remained in the minors. Some tickets that got separated took some votes from them.
A large number of Kotor residents stayed at home. The question is, why isn’t a local ticket born in a city that until recently was the most urban area in the Bay of Kotor? Are nice and honest people so disgusted with politics? No wonder, but we don’t have the luxury of leaving politics to politicians. The chance to change something this time was missed. The next chance should be taken.
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 CdM)
