The three-month soap opera about the formation of a new government is reminiscent of the fairy tale about the three little pigs.
The most playful and biggest - DF - has been building a house of straw from the start. The Democrats have invested in somewhat stronger material.
At the end of the fairy tale, it turns out that if it weren't for Dritan Abazović and Zdravko Krivokapić, DPS would not have gone hungry into the forest. But Abazović and Krivokapić did not lay a good foundation, they kneaded the mortar for too long, and the building was not firmly reinforced. There is only one more MP.
Rather, it will be that the snarling wolf no longer has the strength to blow away the construction, which is not even apparently solid.
DPS had to move once to the opposition benches. Too bad it's not sooner, better not later.
By eliminating in various ways all emerging or assumed competition in the party, Milo Đukanović dried up DPS so much in terms of personnel that he brought it to an almost hopeless situation - neither can DPS do without Đukanović, nor can it move forward with Đukanović.
He seems to be afraid enough or has animosity towards Duško Marković to resort to the only logical and obvious solution - to appoint him to the post of president, even if it is a transitional one. Now it seems that Đukanović will rather risk remaining in the post of DPS president or will oust someone weak, like the mayor of Podgorica Ivan Vuković, in order to once again stage the puppet show already seen during the mandate of Igor Lukšić.
All in all, the DPS will hardly ever have the opportunity to capture Montenegro like it did during the past decades.
The trio can hold hands and sing "who's afraid of DPS yet..." But what will happen when they let go of the car.
The only reason why 41 MPs from three opposition groups raised their hands in favor of Zdravko Krivokapić's government is that DPS would not find itself in a situation to govern again.
Even the restrained Bečić, who does well in the position of head of the parliament, as well as some of the representatives from the Democrats, did not hide it. Bečić had to state that 97 percent of MPs do not have their own representatives in the government.
From the beginning, the front members have complained about the personnel policy of the new prime minister. According to the recipe, Serbs - this time only Serbs from DF - are discriminated against because they are not in the government. Although the other side considers that there are no national Montenegrins or minorities in the church government.
Another complaint heard during the discussion about Krivokapić's exposé is that there are no clearly defined and quantified goals in it, which will make it difficult to judge the work of his cabinet.
Krivokapić stuck to the definition of strategy and politics according to Jovo Kapičić. Strategy is to determine the goal, and politics is the way you will get there. Krivokapić reached his goal through unusual and risky political trajectories, his government was elected. Now the question is what is his second goal.
MPs from the parties that supported the government announced that they will also control and supervise the work of his cabinet in the parliament. So we went from the DPS raising their hands to the situation where the loudest critics of the government are members of the government. Krivokapić will have a problem ensuring the passage of his laws in the parliament, the members of the government will propose populist measures to put him in an even worse position, as if what the DPS left him was not enough, both in the shop window and in hidden corners.
With this kind of support in the parliament, what would be enough for Krivokapić and his "12 apostles" to do is to show that it is possible to govern differently, more responsibly and more honestly than the DPS.
That one can find office or be employed without a party card, that tenders are not arranged for sons, godfathers and friends, that laws apply equally to everyone, that church recommendations will not be a substitute for what has strengthened clientelistic and nepotistic networks until now...
It is less important whether this fairy tale will end with the fall of the government or its reconstruction after a certain time, which again is not easy to do because to launch such initiatives you need the support of 27 deputies. Krivokapić did not leave anyone behind, judging by the applause at the end of the Assembly session where the Government was voted in and the discussions during which members of the government from the same party had conflicting views on it.
And while "who is still afraid of the DPS..." is still ringing in the ears, it should be noted that the line between government apologists and objective or critical observers is easily crossed when such regimes are replaced.
Also, as the former regime produced the thesis that anyone who speaks against the DPS is simultaneously against the state, one should not accept the matrix of the new government - anyone who does not think like us is for the DPS.
The change of government should bring exactly that - that every public official is responsible for what he said or did.
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