In order to establish communist rule after the Second World War, Macaš Rakosi - the Hungarian Stalin - devised the "salami tactic". He systematically devalued political opponents, one by one, tearing them apart piece by piece, until only the packaging remained.
In order to ensure absolute rule, Milo Đukanović did the same to Montenegrin institutions.
In the first 100 days, the government of Zdravko Krivokapić looked at the almost empty packaging, it was a bit crowded, it often looked like it didn't know what to do with it. It seems that the fate of Montenegro is that with the change of government, it will get a political elite that will burn the craft on the state and citizens.
Or is it simply a matter of historical regularity - crises, manifested through long political instability or wars, are the inevitability of societies after the weakening or replacement of long-term authoritarian regimes.
It seems that the new government is mostly occupied with religion and opening new or actualizing old affairs.
Religion is a crutch for weak state institutions. The former regime reached for religion out of interest, the current one out of conviction.
In our region, affairs are political folklore, mostly without an epilogue. And dealing exclusively with the inactions of the former government, although seductive, is a wrong experience of holding office.
For a judicial epilogue to the thievery and arrogance of individuals from the former DPS government, an independent judiciary and prosecution are needed, these are the parts of the salami that autocrats cut off the sweetest.
And the new government slipped the most in the prosecution.
They hastily tried to change the prosecution laws, under pressure from the DF, which cares as much about European integration as last year's snow.
And the Government received a good slap from Brussels. Public - for not knowing the essence of the EU integration process, and under the table there is an open dilemma as to how pro-European the new government is.
Patience is one of the qualities that politicians must have in order to be successful.
And the new Government and the authorities have not shown this, neither when it comes to the Law on Freedom of Religion, nor when it comes to changes in prosecutorial laws.
But these are just some of the lessons they had the opportunity to learn in the first 100 days. Krivokapić and his apostles had to go through an accelerated course in politics during their honeymoon.
The Ministers of Health and Diplomacy, Jelena Borovinić Bojović and Đorđe Radulović, learned the following lesson on their own skin - never publicly make an announcement, especially when you do not control the situation, until everything is fully packed. No vaccination is announced for the end of January, nor the dismissal of Darko Pajović, until the plane from Beijing is ready to fly to Montenegro. With vaccines or Darko.
The economic-apostolic team, Milojko Spajić, Jakov Milatović and Mladen Bojanić, seemed to be running away from the first lessons of political economy.
Because of investors and possible future debts, the government never announces that the state would go bankrupt, that pensions and salaries would not be paid in January, that they would not have issued bonds of 750 million euros, all and when that is the case.
It's as if you say in the bank - if it wasn't for that previous loan, I'd be hungry and homeless, I still have it for a while, maybe you could give me another loan?
In addition, in most of its political activities, the DF openly works against Krivokapić, thus sending a message to the international public about political instability.
And that discourages those who might find Montenegro economically interesting. Along with healthcare, economy and European integration, as the three key areas at the moment, a lot more could be placed on the new government.
Almost every day, one of the representatives of the new government tried to commit political hara-kiri, mostly through public appearances, except for those who are invisible apostles in the public - Tamara Srzentić and Ratko Mitrović.
On the other hand, DF and DPS used every opportunity to push the katana even deeper into the belly of the new government.
The time is coming when Krivokapić and the ministers will have nothing from religion, nor from staring at and advertising the empty packaging from the beginning of the text.
Besides games, people also eat bread.
With the change of government, it is also good that there is a possibility of comparison.
More dedicated to work and more honest than DPS, but also inexperienced, especially in public appearances, so far poorly organized and ineffective.
Bismarck said - "politics is not a science, as many gentlemen professors imagine, it is an art".
Krivokapić showed that he knows how to play a little bit or to spoil with a bit, both in DF and in DPS.
But for some of its experts, politics remained - only science.
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