Landing

Landing on the municipal building in Budva. The breath of the junta. Local politicians who want to be Che in their youth usually become Pinochet in their adulthood. Maybe it was really just a "showcase", a demonstration exercise. To know who we are dealing with. And what can wait for us all.

The intonation is completely pre-election, on both sides, that's clear.

People are dangerous toys. And Montenegro is a dangerous playground.

Nevertheless, the whole event had a somewhat unusual drama: after the climax with tear gas and beatings, the matter goes in a slightly different direction. This morning we saw both sets of authorities at work. But they think that neither of them should come to work. That sounds clever, but what was the point of the whole action? Or he swings both left and right, without any clear idea. Execution? A manner that doesn't look like a DPS?

The opposite perspective - the DPS are appalled that the Budva government is ready to do anything to save their seats... They remind that they left power peacefully.

That is perhaps the key moment. Stepping down from power. Tragedy, not routine. Can anyone, after the Budva pictures, even think about what it would look like if the DPS came down from state power?

In our country, wars and revolutions were the most common model of change of government. Who here peacefully handed over power? Or even handed over power at all? The closest to that was the late Momir Bulatović. He admitted defeat, but performed a performance by throwing the key to the presidency into the people, or something similar...

That's why I have to run, as they say, one idea. Although to some, I suppose it will sound frivolous, or even jovial, I believe that it should be considered quite seriously.

Here, it would be healing to organize - as a state project, that's the only way it can succeed - one of seven or eight quick changes of government, like in hockey, the whole line-up out, line-up in, every three months... Yes, just like that, and without elections - which would be suspended for three years - these don't mean anything anyway - after just a few years, Montenegro would be a model democratic environment. At least the change of government would seem as ordinary as the change of workers in the shopping center.

I guess those three months would be enough of a limiting factor to prevent the kind of corrupt entrenchment that we are used to.

Imagine how dynamic it would be - they wouldn't have time to prank and subvert each other. Maybe that's the right measure - those three months. Being in power that long is enough to make a typical cg politician susceptible to corruption.

And the most important thing of all - Montenegro would never again have either the government or the opposition, which have been in the same status for over thirty years. So that the DPS would fall twice a year (then patriotic intellectuals go out of business), and come to power just as many times (patriotic intellectuals flourish, like spring). Very quickly things would become boring and predictable. And Montenegro is a happy country.

Also, no one would have to defend the indefensible anymore, like the third mandate. And that would be a great relief for local analysts and politicians. Isn't Pažin's principled call for the judges to renounce their third mandate something that touchingly precisely explains how this government functions: strong court players are untouchable. Appeal to their conscience? It just seems futile.

Vesna - "Three mandates, sorry, three meadows, there is no snow anywhere" - Medenica, is one of the unexpected "winners" of the Budva drama.

Her story about the rolex - her extremely unconvincing explanation (better if she hadn't taken it off) - will remain in the deep grave, thanks to the media attractiveness of the landing on Budva. And it's a shame - because I'm sure it's one of the most interesting stories of our time. By the way, the Marquise of Three Mandates could put an end to all rumors and mistrust simply by publishing the serial number of her watch. Instead of sentimental stories, you expect exactness from the judge. Which, it seems, suddenly thins out with her, at least when she talks about the number of mandates, meadows and watches...