The list for the presidential race is being completed. Not only episodic artists are falling away, but also the so-called serious players. And there are the verified "marathoners". For the two most experienced participants in the race, it is an ideal film frame Marathoners run a lap of honor. And maybe All the president's men? We'll see.
The suspense brought on by deciding whether to Djukanovic being a DPS candidate was, in fact, predictable. While the head of the DPS was reconsidering, two important things happened: Andrew took off, a Sweetie landed. It seems that all this made his decision considerably easier. When the scene took on an (un)expected look, things "arranged", and it was clear that he was entering the scene John Wayne.
Đukanović enters the race with an attitude Hoped when the Spaniard comes to Roland Garros. Will it help him? It is unlikely, but one should never underestimate the effect of someone's attitude on Montenegrins and others in Montenegro. Here was always a more important question for anyone - "how he behaves" than "what he thinks".
Sometimes it is refreshing to see "marathoners" in the campaign trying to show their best face, they are very critical of their own past mistakes or inappropriate statements. It's really fun and refreshing, as I said, to hear Mandić lamenting his own bigotry or Đukanović sharing wise advice, full of experience, about how the government corrupts, so it couldn't have happened differently to them either. As if to say - I understood everything in these two years, don't worry, there are no more old mistakes...
Such rhetoric may be funny to some, but what does it take to believe it?
That elite "corrupted" by long-term rule was the "showcase" of Đukanović's Montenegro. What was shown to us as a role model, offered as a social ideal. The responsibility for creating such an elite, which people understandably associate with Đukanović, can hardly be relativized with a few general points of political repentance. A well-chosen value system is in vain, if you are simply not up to it.
How, then, to trust "marathoners"? Do we need some form of stupidity or is naivety enough?
When I saw Andrija's suddenly blossoming love for Montenegro, I remembered a detail from 1989. The time of the AB coup, the young and the beautiful just came to power, and you can hear, not infrequently, among Montenegrins (even then it was a label for belonging to the "defeated" side), whining (as it is today), it's over, there is no Montenegro, these (Momir, Dear, Sacred, they were meant, then) will abolish it and annex it to Serbia. "He won't, don't worry," said a friend, at that time in a fit of rage. "If there was no Montenegro, they wouldn't even be able to lead the local community on Bioč." Very often, this is exactly the reason for declarative love for Montenegro. To all of them, both negators and affirmers, CG gives a reason for existence. Because without her, they are nobody and nothing.
So this is where we come to the key question. So not whether Montenegro, which is often presented to us as the main question, but - what kind of Montenegro? That is the question to be answered by our grandmasters of manipulation. And that never happens. From the "historical" elections. It's now or never, the way it goes.
Such elections are also a game of chess. Which will end two weeks after March 19, and which started long before the players sat down at the table. Because, you remember, Đukanović explained several times, he doesn't enter battles that he's not sure he'll win. Will the party's "good preparation" be enough for such an impossible mission?
Perhaps the picture would have been more complete if the URA had nominated Vasilija... he would have been the right candidate. It doesn't matter that it's a mini-ferry, maybe it believes it's a luxury cruise ship. Or a dangerous gunboat. That kind of identity confusion is ideal for a serious candidate in Montenegro. And surely Vasilije, at least in the nineties, behaved more honorably than our "marathoners".
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