There are many reasons for protests in the world - from those against the use of pyrotechnics due to the increase in the price of the metro ticket, the increase in fuel prices, the introduction of a tax on the use of social networks, to the cutting down of cypress trees or envelopes. Until those when people feel the unbearable political or economic environment in which they live.
What is the reason for the protest in Tuzi started by Nik Đeljošaj?
Officially, the fact that the Government ordered the closure of catering establishments, even though this municipality belongs to the "green" group in terms of the number of infected people.
At the press conference, it was explained that catering establishments in Tuzi, Danilovgrad and Bar are being closed because the citizens of Podgorica visit those municipalities, although it would be much more logical to close the capital.
Đeljošaj lightly pushed the story that it was a matter of revenge against the Government of Tuzim for displaying the Kosovo flag, as well as that Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić was taking revenge on him because he publicly called him out for not congratulating Kosovo's Statehood Day.
Let's go back to October 2020. Đeljošaj was the only political representative of minorities who already had one foot in Krivokapić's government. Allegedly, then, with the mediation of Daka Davidović, an agreement was reached that the Albanian list would get a ministerial position and, in terms of depth, all those that belonged to it in alliance with the DPS.
The agreement was not reached because Nik estimated that Krivokapić was a bad businessman, so at the next meeting, now without Davidović, he asked him for two ministerial posts, supposedly for minorities and tourism. Krivokapić nodded his head to that, while probably commenting to himself - "ah, how can I not, I'll give you another bottle of blood". And while Nik shared positions in the government with party and perhaps coalition comrades, Krivokapić deceived him. Nik was neither the first nor the last.
This put Đeljošaj in a rather awkward position in the party, and in the electorate, because other Albanian parties began to drag him out as they pleased with the "Chetniks".
And if Nik were now in the Government, he would probably have thanked Zdravko the other day for closing the bars in Tuzi, just as he thanked Milutin Simović and the Government last March when they introduced the "lockdown".
He probably wouldn't mind the fact that Vice President Dritan Abazović congratulated Kosovo's Independence Day instead of Krivokapić. But Nik is an infant revolutionary. A place of patriots playing with nationalist fire.
If Niko had been a restaurateur, he would have sent a polite letter of protest to the government. There are always reasons for protests and rising tensions in Montenegro. This Government gives them often, the impression is much more due to inexperience, clumsiness, skeletons left in the closet by the DPS, than because of bad intentions.
The fact that Prime Minister Krivokapić initially agreed to come to the negotiations in Tuza speaks of his political inexperience.
Đeljošaj plays lightly with fire. And he just as lightly closes and forbids entry into Tuzi.
The last time he did this was at the end of 2018, as the State Secretary in the Government. A day after the opposition benches Raško Konjević and Ranko Krivokapić in the Assembly ridiculed the Government's proposal to amend the Law on Public Order and Peace, which leaves police officers free to interpret when and how someone can display their national symbol, Nik told these two - unfit you are in the territory where Albanians live. A political maneuver in an attempt to mask the collapse of the agreement between the Albanian parties and the DPS, even though the voice of the Liberal Party ruled that this law should not be adopted.
Just as he suddenly lit a fire at the end of last week, Nik just as magically began to respect the measures after a meeting in the Government.
Niku is not up to restaurateurs, nor to lovers of children from Podgorica.
Nik is more concerned with his own rating.
And the cheap idea that the current government has something against Albanians does not harm the DPS either.
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