Friday, September 16 - There is no hope, nothing from the third government even after the seventh meeting of the parliamentary majority.
If there ever was such a thing, except on the winner's night of August 30, 2020. Because just one day later, the winners went back to factory settings and continued to act like horns in a bag.
It had to be, they are too different?
No, many healthy and advanced countries were governed by coalitions of rightists and leftists, nationalists and globalists, socialists and liberals, populists and elitists. But they were led by wise leaders whose views of the general social interest reached far beyond the next election.
Ours have shown in these two years that they are exactly as I described them two days after the election. Mostly unwilling to bear the burden of their own victory, unable to shoulder the responsibility of government, too vain to accept the advice of the wiser, and unwilling to sacrifice themselves for the common good.
That is why, in all likelihood, we will still have to hold an extraordinary vote. After which the same or similar negotiating teams will have to form the same or similar Government, which is not only pointless but also expensive.
When I say expensive, I mean time and money, which we have been lacking for a long time. The senselessness does not even need to be explained, it is clear that a morally failing, educationally neglected, politically illiterate and financially impoverished society will follow the same leaders again.
No, Europe will now take at least ten percent from them?
Maybe, but it will be pouring from empty to empty because they will not be taken away from the leader of the former regime, but from those from the new parliamentary majority. Which in two years failed to prove even its own existence.
Because the parliamentary majority is not a simple mathematical sum of the votes of former opposition voters.
But, first of all, an unknown and very complicated process of giving up individual party-national goals in favor of common ones for Montenegro.
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Saturday, September 17 - The leader of the New Serbian Democracy Andrija Mandić, whose negotiating persistence in recent days deserves sincere respect, said that all is not lost yet.
- We are ready to reduce our participation in the Government to a minimum of a few ministerial positions - he promised on behalf of the DF and received a standing ovation from the coalition's supporters.
The rest are still suspicious because of past work, above all because of the experience with the first post-Depees government.
In which the participation of the Front was literally minimal, if you don't count that the prime minister was elected from his list and with the votes of his deputies. Which did not prevent the front members from attacking Zdravko Krivokapić, both before and after taking over the mandate, much more fiercely than the opposition Depees and social democrats combined.
It was somehow surprising that Miodrag Lekić was the new mandate holder. Whose front members "looked in the teeth" not so long ago, and one of the most prominent asked to return them to the donor...
Stranger than that was the behavior of the Democrats, who did not carefully follow the last elections, would not have known that the candidate for the mandate was on their list Peace is our nation.
- We don't blackmail, but we don't agree to blackmail either - said Dragan Krapović, but he didn't explain who is blackmailing them.
I first thought of Ura, because of the request that she, the SNP, Civis and the minority parties receive half of the seats in the Government. Which is unrealistic only on first reading.
On the other - completely expected. Not because of revenge, but because it is insane that a party whose leader has been accused for months of the most serious crimes - "prime minister of the Kavac clan", "betrayed the electoral will for 21 million"... with prosecutors enters the Government on his word of honor...
Just in case the Democrats meant the SNP by blackmailers, Vladimir Joković's explanation arrived promptly:
- We don't need the President of the Assembly, the Deputy Prime Ministers, we also renounce the ministries of finance, health, justice, education, we only ask to take the places occupied by the DF and the Democrats - said the leader of the SNP.
The answer did not arrive, it is not easy to count that mass by depth...
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Sunday, September 18 - Well, this hasn't happened since the pig's tail twisted...
In a country that is left without a Government, a Constitutional Court and a Judicial Council, with a tendency to soon be left without an Assembly and the Supreme State Prosecutor, the news of the day reads:
- Pop Mijajlo Backović did not stand up for the national anthem!!!
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Monday, September 19 - The winning parties of the parliamentary elections in 2020 have agreed to form the Government of Montenegro, 41 MPs have only one candidate for the mandate and that is Miodrag Lekić - announced Andrija Mandić.
It's good, the inclusion of the horns in the bag passed without serious injuries. It is bad that it started insincerely, flowed sloppily and ended too late.
If all the negotiators were really equally sincere in their intention to form the Government, the distribution of seats that was agreed at the last minute would have been accepted fifteen days earlier.
If everyone were equally serious, they would go to the President for consultations and thus deprive him of the opportunity for a creative interpretation of the Constitution.
And if everyone were equally responsible, they would have announced the name of the common candidate to the President four days - not four hours - before the expiration of the deadline for proposing a candidate.
They did not expect that he would reject their proposal because "he did not get the impression that there was a clear majority that would be able to form the Government"?
Well, Milo Đukanović has been deciding this way for thirty-odd years, ever since his late mentor ruled "that the Constitution should not be followed like a drunkard"...
To be fair, the Constitution only obliges him to consult, not to accept the proposals of those with whom he consults...
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Tuesday, September 20 - Unlike the vague chapter on the President, the highest legal act is very clear when it comes to the obligations of the Parliament of Montenegro. Despite this, the MPs continue to violate it for an extended period of time.
Prominent lawyers in the Judicial Council, who were elected on July 2, 2014, have been working in an unconstitutional mandate for more than four years.
The consequences of such a violation of the Constitution will one day be dealt with by the Constitutional Court, if the retired judges are replaced before these three remaining judges meet the legal requirements for retirement.
To deal with the shame of the vote of the deputies, who decided that Milan Popović, Dragan Šoć and Nebojša Vučinić were not respectable enough to enter the Judicial Council, there is no one...
Apart from the voters, who are truncated by the Judicial Council and the Constitutional Court, the sitting of Pope Mijajlo during the performance of the national anthem worries me just as much as I do...
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Wednesday, September 21 - What would this mean, is it possible that the parliamentary majority was really surprised by the President's proposal to shorten the mandate of the parliament...
- One of the easiest ways out is for Mr. Đukanović to repeat the process, call consultations in accordance with the Constitution and the matter will be resolved - proposed Slaven Radunović on behalf of DF.
As for the Constitution - it is not impossible.
The only problem is that Mr. Đukanović is not looking for an easier way out for this parliamentary majority, but for the one before August 30, 2020.
And what will happen if the parliament's mandate is not shortened?
- Ask those who have borne the burden of responsibility, ask those who keep us in this state all these months, ask those who returned DPS to power - answered the leader of the Democrats Aleksa Bečić.
Better not, because he and his party answered the first two questions a month and two days ago. And took on a huge burden of responsibility.
Not because they overthrew the government with the DPS, but because they started the demolition solely because of animosity towards the prime minister, personal or political - now it doesn't matter...
And because they believed Lajčak-diplomacy from today to tomorrow more than their own eyes.
And because they did not think beforehand with whom they will be able to form a new government.
To enter it together with the DPS - they are not allowed by the "declaration of honor" signed a long time ago.
It is not realistic for the DPS with satellites to support a minority government for the second time.
To form a majority with the Democratic Front - they can't do it without Ura, with whom they fought a long time ago, nor without the SNP, which they shot as soon as it entered the minority.
The answer to the third question will be known in a few months. If the DPS really returns to power, it will be able to thank the Democrats for that.
That wasn't their intention?
I believe, but they should have thought about that when they set their sights on the Government before the list "All for our Sponge" was supplemented with the names of the holders...
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Thursday, September 22 - The collegium of the Assembly did not decide to schedule a session on the shortening of the mandate because the President forgot to deliver - the proposal for a decision...
Ringe ringe raja, it seems, he hasn't forgotten, buying time is doing better for him than the parliamentary majority...
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