If a reliable survey were to be conducted (if possible), I believe that it would turn out that the majority of Montenegrin citizens are sure that they themselves would be perfectly good candidates for the President of Montenegro. Admittedly, it is possible that the same would turn out if you inquired about a job as a Formula 1 driver, cosmonaut or novelist.
God gave Montenegrins for everything, they themselves are convinced of just such God's intention. And that's why god is clear to them. That theology is simple. It must be connected with that maxim about intelligence - which is said to be perfectly distributed - everyone thinks they have enough of it.
The presidential elections announced for March 19 ignited the Montenegrin passion for candidacy. Everyone has a winning combination, of course. The right candidate.
(Or, if there are no people, there is - information for "candidating".)
General take-off - hold me, I will become president!
However, one detail is interesting.
On the opposition side of the domestic political scene, they mentioned a supra-party candidate. Now they needed a professor. And more Krivokapic, evil tongues will say.
But it is unusual that they, that awareness, did not think about a supra-party candidate at the time when they could nominate whoever they wanted and undoubtedly win. A non-party candidate means, among other things, the willingness to share responsibility with someone outside the party milieu, and this willingness is always healing for a society. It would have been medicinal even then. But while the "throne" was safe for them, they did not think of a candidate outside the (closest) party circle.
Now that idea suddenly seemed good to them? But this is no afterthought or new wisdom. Just another trick, just another election fog. In this case, the "supra-party candidate" is asked to be the scapegoat, not someone who would move things forward. It is too late for that kind of "redemption".
Perhaps the essential question is - why can't they have a real supra-party candidate? Simple - who? Because, among those who are "their" for a long time, no one is "over-party". We saw that even one female judge had a party membership card. There was obviously no one to curb her enthusiasm.
One eloquent digression: at that, "unpopular" time, a serious and important writer (whom the party is strong), ran to be the head of the cabinet of the most respected Montenegrin politician (probably the wisest), with whom, by the way, he was also a close friend. The politician immediately removed his candidacy, and explained to him - How can a writer be a politician's gatekeeper? No way. Times change, and so do politicians, obviously. This is the time of the dwarves.
Probably, almost all "supra-party" figures in the gravity of the DPS and their long-term (mostly bad) rule are permanently contaminated by the ways in which the government itself used them - often as a club to calm disobedient dissidents. And often as ikebana, which should, from time to time, readily confirm the universal universal happiness and universal progress...
What kind of person in such an environment would be a meaningful candidate? I guess I'm a badass, and that's why I don't see such a person, so I'd like someone to explain to me who they mean when they talk about "supra-party" candidates.
Because DPS is not an address for that kind of achievement. Who would seriously accept such an offer. Although I am sure that many consider it their due, and would not be surprised by such an "honor".
After all, wasn't that team, today's opposition vagabonds, always, everything, every social oppression, job, communication with the public, based on the need to totally control everything. That's why they got to where they are.
As we can see, although running for office becomes a social game - more for fun and relaxation than for instruction - this (perhaps feigned) search for a "supra-party candidate" certainly hides something. What great escape? Or, simply, just - a bare void.
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