Friday, May 19 - It's good, the elections are in 20 days, let's start with the polls. And the analysis of their results...
My knowledge is fragile compared to that of analysts, that's why I guess I never managed to understand how something that concerns half a million people can be judged based on the attitude of a thousand respondents.
Not to go on too long, I'm actually troubled by a very specific dilemma.
Have any of the poll analysts ever considered what level of political savvy, or just elementary awareness, these representative samples show.
Example one: Analysts say that the latest survey confirmed the rise of support for the leaders of Europe now and the decline of trust in the leaders of Ura and the Democrats.
How do they explain it? By the fact that PES propagates popular measures, increasing wages and pensions, shortening working hours, etc., while Ur and the Democrats are unpopular - the fight against organized crime and corruption...
So, what's the problem now? Well, in that the voters of all three parties unreservedly support Montenegro's entry into the European Union.
And they know that the most important condition for that entry is the fight against crime and corruption.
Wages and pensions can realistically increase only when that struggle is at an end.
Why, then, are the citizens surveyed, as well as the voters they supposedly represent, more supportive of a one-time remediation of the consequences than a long-term profitable fight against the causes?...
Example two: Analysts say that the popularity of the two leaders of the Europe Movement is now growing because of the program of the same name.
Okay, but then why is the first holder of that program, Milojko Spajić, less popular than the second - Jakov Milatović - who is not even participating in the election campaign?
Because "citizens lose confidence in politicians because of inconsistent statements"?
Fortunately, if the citizens were up to (in)consistency, the Montenegrin political scene would have been cleared of 80 percent of party wolves a long time ago.
It will be sooner if there is a consistent Montenegrin polity - Jakov Milatović became the head of state.
And here, traditionally, only the winners are bravely counted... And not only at the state level, but also at the party summit.
If Milo Đukanović had not been inaugurated into the second presidential title, Danijel Živković would not have reached sixth place even after five years, let alone after five months...
The third and, for today, last example is more for psychological than for journalistic analysis.
38,1 percent of citizens believe that Montenegro is generally moving in the right direction.
The internal and foreign policy of Montenegro is led by the Government of Dritan Abazović.
That government has the support of only ten deputies in the parliament. Or, less than that percentage...
Further, only 2,7 percent are very dissatisfied with the work of that government, 19 percent are mostly dissatisfied.
Analysts say that "since June 2022, we have a growing trend of citizens who believe that Montenegro is moving in the right direction".
Now what's so strange about it?
First, the fact that this information is being announced only now, nine months after the overthrow of the Government.
Second and most strangely, if the trend of increasing confidence has been uninterrupted since last June, why was the government overthrown in the first place?
And that after only a hundred days, in August, when it was already known that the second one could not be elected even for a year...
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Saturday, May 20 - It is still too early for a survey on the growth of trust in the institution of the President after Jakov Milatović was introduced to the post.
To overtake his predecessor was not a problem for him, due to the decline of faith in him in the last years.
The problem may be the above-mentioned traditional poltergeism, which ends with cruelty towards fallen idols but is immediately resurrected by the creation of new ones...
Well, it's still too early for the updated version of that lyrical mockery "King Nicholas stole an ox, then ran away across the sea..."
But, unfortunately, there will be someone gifted enough in metrics to overcome the obstacle with the shorter name of the uncrowned king.
However, it is not too early to be careful that history does not repeat itself as a farce, by renewing the process of that coronation.
Congresses of admiration are already starting on social networks, and Jakov Milatović has just been heard for the first time as President.
The speech in the parliament was wise as a statesman and appropriate to the political situation, but moderation was lacking both at the inauguration and at the ceremonial reception.
I would not go into detail about the crowd in front of the Villa, as well as the longest handshake and kiss that Gorica remembers.
I guess someone in the state realized how important the state protocol service is.
Well, now, whether it's up to me or the President of the Assembly - I don't know, but even after the third listening, I didn't understand why the inclusion of Njegoš Montenegro, whatever that means, in the inauguration of the President.
Let's say that a new Bishop was enthroned, or that Bishop Rade was posthumously declared a Nobel laureate...
However, the head of state was declared in the Assembly, so even a superficial knowledge of Montenegrin history obliges one to take Peter the First as a model-statesman.
He, not Peter the Second, created that state and arranged it amazingly well, despite the historical circumstances and relations between the Montenegrin tribes.
About what kind of statesman Bishop Rada was, both in relation to his uncle and otherwise - history has judged long ago.
What kind of statesman Milo Đukanović was - aside from his prime ministerial and party performance - history will only judge.
It was therefore premature that the President of the Assembly did not meet him on the red carpet in front of the building.
Is it realistic that nobody remembered how Milo Đukanović, in those solemn midday moments, was still the President of Montenegro...
After the inauguration, even Jakov Milatović lacked moderation.
Ceremonial inauguration is not the right opportunity to measure the performance of the previous President. There is no place for objections to be thrown in his face in front of numerous foreign officials, such as the one about the dissolution of "common goods and the increase of personal wealth".
It was appropriate yesterday, it will be tomorrow, but not today.
But, when he had already condemned what was bad, the basic order was also to give thanks for what was good.
And it's good, they are not my words, but those of President Milatović in his solemn speech:
Since Montenegro became a member of NATO.
Which is the first on the list to enter the EU.
Because she renewed good neighborly relations with everyone.
Who opposes Russia's aggression against Ukraine...
He inherited all that from his predecessor.
He gave his word that he would continue on that path.
Only three more were missing: Thank you, Mr. Đukanović...
Milatović expressed his gratitude to all former statesmen by saying that he "seeks inspiration in the inspiration of Balšić, Vojislavljević, Petrović, the anti-fascist struggle of Montenegro and the travails of the post-war generations".
And that is good, especially because of the enlightenment of that part of Montenegro, which for three decades has included dynasties from the neighboring country in that list.
However, it is not good that the new President did not say what inspirations will inspire him when it comes to recent history, from the nineties onward...
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Sunday, May 21 - Independence Day. And the silence after the inauguration.
Honorary firing, speeches, cocktails, receptions... it was all done yesterday and the day before.
In five installments, in five places...
God forbid that, even by chance, we were brought together in the same place and at the same time even by state protocol.
When the state still can't do it...
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Monday, May 22 - There is hope that this bacchanal will end.
My number of Facebook followers suddenly jumped, as if the command of all the comitis-patriotic alliances had ordered the unblocking of my profile before the evening...
He spoke very well... Well, this Jakov is really not from the Serbian world... He really surprised me, his speech is statesmanlike... This character is great... What would this be, there are no popes in the Assembly...
I'm hitting for some likes, but I'm not responding...
I don't know how I would respond... If it was the same Jakov Milatović from two months or a year ago... When they were spreading the story that he was... a servant of the Church of Serbia... a Chetnik... the postapocalypse of Joanikija... a fraud ...
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Tuesday, May 23 - I am still waiting for echoes and reactions from the parties to the President's speech...
It's the fourth day, but it seems - there is no time when...
The heroes of the lost Kosovo battle declared a break in the defense of the Serbian holy places and began to fight for the pensions of the Montenegrin peasants.
For the sake of a spell or to prevent Serbian voters from thinking, only one party remembered that the elections are in nineteen days and that the process regarding the return of Nikola's tricolor should be renewed.
Supranational urats and democrats persist in exterminating corruption and crime, even though they are obviously diluting the electorate.
They don't even go overboard. But not this mass from DPS to PES, which will soon be distinguished only by the letters P and D.
Rather than flying the European Union to, or to, Ukraine.
What kind of Medenice, Jovanić, Lazović and other members of Chapters 23 and 24... Dritan and Aleksa are outclassed politicians...
Only the fight against corruption and crime on the battlefields of Ukraine counts as brave...
With all of Chapter 27, the closing of which - let alone the opening - will not be affected at all by depleted uranium...
Now, whether it is up to the change of course in Brussels or that the little membership that overtakes PES does not fly into the U-turn, only DPS has completely rejected the story of successful Euro-Atlantic integrations and the failed strengthening of national identity.
It looks silly, but in that party they seem to believe that the best way to save it is to save the tenant.
Maybe they will, at least up to 15 percent, that collective amnesia is a miracle...
Who cares that it was the DPS that led to the proliferation of subtenant status.
I wouldn't be surprised if on June 11 the tenants also forget how until yesterday only Srđan Perić took care of them for years...
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Wednesday, May 24 - It's not that I doubted the statesmanship of President Jakov Milatović, but I was surprised by the speed with which he set out to iron out the decision of his party leader.
Which was good for Milojko Spajić and Europe now, but it is very bad for the rest of Montenegro.
I don't know if there will be any benefit from the gathering of the leaders of all parties at the President's, but it's time to see that miracle...
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