Bless me with her, I hum with agony as I read the reports of local officers to the general staffs in Podgorica and Belgrade about the losses in manpower during the decisive battle for Nikšić. Everyone steals data, trying to reduce the number of dead votes and increase the number of prisoners...
The siege of the city lasted much longer at the end of this winter than last summer. In terms of the length of the offensive actions on the scene and in the background - almost ten weeks - it surpassed even the one from the era of King Nikola, which ended after 47 days.
This time there were no victims, if you don't count the consequences of the offensive on the dignity of the people of Nikšić. Bašibozuk outside the city - and, by God, state - borders set in motion all living forces to take away their right to reason.
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Instead of voting for a green city and white tax books, the majority agreed to choose between a review of Komite kitsch and a parade of Chetnik primitivism.
For the defense of the state on one side and the sanctuaries on the other to be complete, only Duke Paja was missing. To say how, "out of respect for Montenegrins" who perished in the fight against the Turks in 1877, he saved Nikšić from bloodshed by "throwing weapons" into Lake Krupa...
Bless me really, I'm still humming as I add and subtract the numbers from the election. And I felt like crying with all my brain for my homeland and my life. Not because of Nikšić, I am bound to him only by an acquaintance that lasted a total of ten hours in sixty years.
They are crying as a precaution, because of the guaranteed replay of last week's results in the elections that are coming to my native Danilovgrad next spring. And Podgorica, Bijelo Polje, Pljevlja, Bar...
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It doesn't bode well for the rest of the country either if depees continue to fall at this rate. Because in thirty years, even after splitting in half, the support for that party dropped by - two percent. Even though both before and after the split, she only offered - a bare deception.
Independent Montenegro today is more dependent on crime(s) than Sicily was since Cosa Nostra in the golden age of the mafia.
The pre-election road to Europe, ceremonially opened on the eve of five parliamentary campaigns, was closed very quickly by the increasingly intense post-election devastation of material resources and the destruction of spiritual ones.
Despite this, support for (pre)election frauds was concrete. That's why depees didn't have to change himself or his campaigns.
Last Sunday, he received 40,4 percent of the votes in Nikšić, although both his speeches and marketing were more suitable for Cetinje. Instead of Krnov and Klaudija Šifer leading the gallop from the saddle, a video was shown with Lovćen and Jadranka Barjaktarović among the caryatids, while the horses scattered in the sampas.
- Guys are coming from all sides, my Montenegrin brothers - she sent to sampas and gender equality and multi-ethnicity, which the former government has been swearing by for decades.
Njegos' mausoleum has remained the same, it has been a constant in every campaign ever since Depees led the campaign for its demolition...
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It is not written well for Montenegro even with the strengthening of the political role of the church, which is causally related to the slow weakening of the depees. A textbook example of this is the result of last week's election.
Parties and coalitions can rise above the politically neglected people until May and St. Vasilija, the only and real winner is the holder of the MCP/SPC list - Bishop Joanikije.
The only ruling party on which he did not have and will not have any influence is the URA. Now #ashtonepišešo activists will pull the September meeting in Ostrog, even though it was just another proof of the breadth of the small party when the narrow party interests of the big ones threaten the will of the citizens of Montenegro. Unfortunately, the concessions she made almost backfired in Nikšić...
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During the campaign, Bishop Ioannikije helped the coalition Peace is our nation both publicly and less publicly. Even if he did it solely because of that part of it that originates from the Government, he is also responsible for strengthening the Democrats.
Which is good, as long as he doesn't ask for anything in return. And if they themselves don't slip from citizenship to Christianity with an Orthodox name and a Serbian surname, like last year.
Not only their own political experience, but also the wisdom of the recent high priest, Metropolitan Amfilohi, can help them to prevent neither from happening. Who devoted the last years of his life to the fight for victory over the divisions in which he once participated.
If they had at least studied last year's metropolitan's sermons in time, they would have understood that Bishop Joanikije, if the SPC does not want him at the head of the MCP, he can get the will to continue on his path, but - he will not have the strength.
If the Holy Synod still elects him as metropolitan, he will gain strength, but - he will not have the will...
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Bishop Joanikije also helped another list, For the Future of Nikšić. Its most numerous members were saved from a major defeat not only by the past work of the bishop and the church, but also by his public address at the end of the campaign.
The conflict with the Government did take away some of the votes, but the greater part was lost due to the conflict with common sense. Shouting "This is Serbia" after Nikšić, waving flags of the state of Serbia and citing the fact that he is a Serb as the greatest success of the candidate for mayor - could not have given a better result.
Not to mention the story about the threat of Serbs in a country where two-thirds of the executive power is made up of Serbs, and at least one-third of them are in the legislative power.
The fact that the closeness of Miodrag Daka Davidović to Bishop Joaniki helped the third list did not help the Democratic Front. That the first partnership is not forgotten, it became clear immediately after the claim of the leader of the People's Movement that his assassination was ordered by the President of Serbia.
Unprovoked - if you don't count the influence of Aleksandar Vučić on the decisions of the Holy Synod - Bishop Joanikije broke the church tradition of talking about founders with broad hands in chosen words. Thus sending support to the DF by claiming that the former Montenegrin government was behind the assassination in Belgrade.
Thanks to this indirect help, the Front managed to retain at least part of the outgoing voters. Daka Davidović passed the polls like a thorn in his bare feet.
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Unfortunately, the government cannot be helped until it helps itself. To begin with, so that everyone in it will understand that they are both individually and collectively responsible for the individual and collective fate of the 625.266 inhabitants of Montenegro, and not only those who over 41 deputies (still) guarantee its executive power.
State management does not allow frivolity in public statements, failure to understand the postulates of secular society, disrespect for the media, inconsistency in the implementation of regulations and decisions, ignorance of reality and misunderstanding of the past...
That is why the Government must convince itself and everyone else - the parties, the civil sector and citizens above all - that it really is the government.
And especially that, happily for both us and her, she knows how to rule...
PS The URA can most effectively help the government to come to its senses. So that, after six months of ironing out mistakes in the depths of Montenegro and the breadth of the European Union, they will finally warn her that the party can survive without the government, but the government can't without it. URA can help itself by rejecting the offer to join the Nikšić administration. Its representative there would not be the 41st, but the 42nd. When he can no longer decide on the future of the city, there is no need to play evet-effendi either.
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