Intermediate time and intermediate time demons. The interim can be a dangerous category: if it drags on, it can thin out hope, and it can also create the conditions for a clearer picture.
This interim also has its own dynamics and interesting narrative nodes. The current political experience - negotiating a new government, dismantling the system - is new to everyone here. And that means you have a spectrum of reactions that cover everything from euphoria to caution and even confusion.
As all this is, as we said, a novelty, sometimes, with a good number of citizens, an unadjusted zone of expectation is possible. What exactly to expect? What will be important from the point of view of the new government, and what will be important from the point of view of the "new" citizen? Will the Budva church-municipal circus be a new image of the role of the church in this society? These are not unimportant questions, on the contrary.
There are also analyzes of how all this actually works in the hands of Đukanović. A miracle is the love of politicians - there are those who believe so much in his infallibility and invincibility that they honestly think that all this is happening according to his plan. That even defeat is his victory.
As a chorus of this interim period, the national mourners echo... The forecasts are so dark that everything below the imminent end of the world will be - imperceptibly...
A certain cautious optimism among citizens is noticeable, and it is a sensitive plant. And important. Although optimism is not instilled by the occasional verbal actions of political veterans, as well as Amfilohi's triumphant constructions around the resurrection of the chapel on Lovćen. He won't watch that movie, so long as he lives another hundred years. Such an action would unite Montenegrins much more effectively and intensively than Đukanović's party and his intellectual servants with the pretensions of national workers, and it could mean that the "new government" has some hidden obligations towards the Church or its metropolitan. I do not believe that it is wise to burden the new government with such doubts, and the metropolitan's need to enjoy and symbolically exploit the victory over Đukanović could become a serious burden.
Despite the current corona etiquette, the interim can take off the masks for many. As it can sometimes reduce things and people to the right measure. Today's candidates for the new government are united above all by their - disagreement. And what after the refusal? Agree to what?
Certainly not to play with dates and their symbolic potential: May 9 is indisputable, if anything in Montenegro is indisputable.
Professor Krivokapić was lucky to enter the elections as someone about whom Montenegrins know little. Now this "mistake", which is actually a blessing for the political candidate, is being "corrected" in the manner of the police-propaganda machinery, pictures of inappropriate events and the like are found... That police reflex will live on in the Montenegrin service media for a long time. That is your measure: when that manner starts to disappear, or becomes really marginal, it will mean that we are on the threshold of a normal society.
Church terms are popular now - you've heard that Budva is called the Metropolis of Montenegrin tourism - this gathering of cadres at semi-secret meetings must also be "parliamentary" in the manner of Veljović.
The newspaper report explains that loyalty to the state of Montenegro was demanded from police officials, but I guess that is something that is taken for granted, and that will be equally important in the new political circumstances. It is, in fact, a smokescreen for what is the real reason, but which sounds much less patriotic: informing Veljović. And after Veljović - Veljović, in other words...A happy interlude. The 900th number of Art is in your hands. Eighteen years, the coming of age of an addition to culture, that's no small thing, even in serious cultures... In those 900 issues, there was a lot - an entire encyclopedia of stories, views, records, almost a thousand conversations, a lot of criticism, theoretical analyses, columns, anthologies songs... The Montenegrin public got to know dozens of new authors from the pages of this supplement, it was, all these years, an open and dynamic forum. It will continue to be.
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