Smuggling policy

In mid-August 2016, he was mowing dried grass in his native Piva when his phone rang, which he kept in the back pocket of his old jeans. On the display it was written - President Milić.

Vladimir Joković called: "Can you come to Podgorica urgently, Milo (Đukanović) and Duško (Marković) called me for a meeting. I think it would be wise for a couple of you to come with me".

That slightly surreal scene appeared three times before my eyes while interlocutors from different opposition structures told me identically the story of the situation in which the current president of the Socialist People's Party (SNP) Vladimir Joković found himself. Joković allegedly replied that he needed time to change his training, drive and everything else that a normal person needs to move from the beer garden to the political meadow, and that there were others from the party to go with him. There are different interpretations as to who attended that meeting with the top of the DPS in front of the SNP, the holding of which was confirmed to me by several sources.

Allegedly, Đukanović and Marković offered Milić to close the party's financial debts and for DPS to push them during the campaign for the October 2016 elections, in which the SNP would run independently in exchange for a post-election coalition.

Although he initially accepted the proposal in principle, Milić quickly confirmed his reputation as a politician you can rely on like a banana peel. He changed his mind, ran into the story of the Ključ coalition with Demos and URA, which was finalized already on August 31 at the Main Committee of the SNP, which was supported by 120 members, while 27 of them were against it.

At that time, Snežana Jonica was the loudest supporter of the independent performance of the SNP. Allegedly, at the session, she threatened to resign from her position and tear up her membership card. She was not even on the list of the coalition.

After being defeated by a narrow majority by Joković at the SNP congress a year later, Jonica reproached the new president for choosing as vice presidents only people who supported him in the party match, which does not work to preserve the unity of the party...

She told the media that she is not leaving the SNP and that she is not founding a new party. It turned out that he will leave the SNP and found a new party - the Socialists of Montenegro. And the day before yesterday - November 29. At the secret founding congress.

In moments of political decline, the regime's portals kept her from falling into oblivion with texts about her job in Strasbourg, or about the most beautiful Montenegrin female politicians.

In the meantime, there was an uproar in the conflict between the Democrats and the SDP in Kotor.

Vladimir Jokic, with whom she was friends, is now the former mayor of Kotor and marginalized in the party. Ranko Krivokapic is the former president of the SDP. The government of the opposition parties in Kotor is also former. Only Sneža hopes for a bright future.

But we should also remember the past. Not very bright.

At the end of 2014, Jonica was voted by the members of DPS, BS and Darko Pajović was elected vice president of the Parliamentary Committee for Security and Defense on behalf of the opposition, while her colleague at the time Velizar Kaluđerović evaded voting for her by absenteeism. He didn't support her from Depees at that time Edited by Mišo Stanišić - known for his bitterness towards the opposition - so as not to contribute to additional conflicts between political opponents.

Jonica was automatically elected to the National Security Council after being elected vice-president of the Committee, so Đukanović and Marković were certainly more comfortable in her company than if he had been elected to that body. Nebojsa Medojevic.

In her statement to Pobjeda, she gave the reasons why she was chosen, and not Medojević.

The first is that "she speaks from her head" and that she is an opponent of NATO, while "with Medojević both the lyrics and the music are ordered from a well-known Podgorica bar that is considered a gathering place for some security and other structures connected to the government".

That's it Branka Bosniak retorted that she is "the opposition's Mata Hari" and "an innkeeper of the DPS" with a "criminal record".

Jonica was first on the electoral list of the SNP in 2009, shortly after the statute of limitations had expired against her and six other persons in the proceedings before the Basic Court in Bar that lasted for 10 years.

She was accused of obtaining for herself an illegal benefit "of 11.760 marks, or 99.360 dinars. "AD Lovćen" damaged 70.560 euros, and the budget, i.e. MUP, 4.900 marks, i.e. 28.800 dinars, due to the alleged fraud of border foreign exchange insurance during the importation of cars.

Simply put, because of car smuggling.

She was charged with serious criminal offenses punishable by up to 15 years in prison, while the others were sentenced to up to three years in prison.

Special State Prosecutor's Office, in April 2016, while Milivoje Katnic was a promising boyfriend, announced that, for some other reason, it was also checking the case involving Jonica, which was dismissed before the court in Bar due to the statute of limitations.

And now Jonica, who brightens and dresses in the Port of Kotor from the position of administrative director, plans to sneak onto the political scene with her party.

It is not the first time that DPS has created alleged opposition parties in order to transfer scattered opposition votes to its balance at the state level, or to create a new Hail or Cakana, this time in Kotor. Only that should be known in time. To prevent smuggling.