There is no business in a timid leader, that's how I titled a column dedicated to Milojko Spajić at the beginning of August, who was only a pretender to the post of prime minister at the time.
I gave up the pretension to write about those who are not (yet) in power a long time ago, that's why I wrote that Spajić's timidity does not (yet) include all the meanings from the CSBH dictionary - rash, impulsive, headstrong, grumpy, quarrelsome, capricious, capricious, untamed...
Unfortunately, he managed to complete all eight in less than six months.
Not only his disappointed voters, but also some of the activists who invested their reputation in his electoral success, have been writing for days on social networks that they did not judge him well...
It's a shame, because even before the presidential elections it was clear that Spajić was in a very bad position with - truthfulness.
Do you have a residence in Serbia?... I don't have one, I never had one... I did, but I deregistered it... I didn't deregister it, the lawyer forgot... I'm not interested in that administration...
Do you have Serbian citizenship?... I don't, I always had Montenegrin... Well, I do, but I applied for a release from Serbian citizenship...
Two days before the parliamentary elections:
Do you know Do Kwon?... I met him in 2018, he damaged the company where I worked for 75.000 euros, he is a fraud... Did you see him later?... I did in 2022, but I didn't know it then Is the company hacked or is there a mistake...
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Thanks to his mastery of switching theses, the affair remained unresolved despite a key part of Do Kwon's letter questioning the regularity of the entire election process.
Fortunately, if the voters had read it at least superficially, there would not be any disappointments today.
So, Do Kwon claimed that Milojko Spajić told him last year:
To "raise a few million US dollars for the upcoming campaign".
That he expects money "from other friends from the crypto-industry", as well as that Do Kwon will also "make his contribution".
That he did not give money to Spajić, but that he has - which is the most important thing in this letter - "evidence of these communications and payments from other persons".
And what did Milojko Spajić do then?
Denied only what none of the government officials even claimed - that he received money from Do Kwon.
Terrified the public with his own arrest - which no one even ordered.
And called on citizens not to gather and stay at home - even though they didn't go anywhere...
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And what happened after the election?
Nothing, instead of a four-year program for cultural, educational, health, environmental, economic, industrial, agricultural, touristic and other development, Montenegro got one hashtag with three numbers and two slashes:
# 450/700/1000
That the promises repeated hundreds of times about raising the standards of pensioners and employees, as well as about the abolition of unemployment, were just "crazy joy" was confirmed by - to put it mildly - the whimsical behavior of the Prime Minister the day before his arrival in the parliament.
First, during the day, he informed the head of the parliament that he would not come to the Prime Minister's Hour.
In the evening, but not in person but through the telephone loudspeaker, in a stormy address he accused the representatives of Ura and DPS of "clogging up the budget with amendments so that it would not be adopted".
When Filip Adžić interrupted him because he "started teaching the opposition MPs what they should do", the prime minister said that "he has a lot of work, so he won't come".
And then he mocked the parliament in a way that no prime minister had dared in 33 years - by offering to send written answers to questions.
He also said of the MPs that they are "non-cooperative" who never want to avoid "passing the budget with reform laws" through a large number of amendments.
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On December 27, 2023, there were about a hundred of those amendments, which have never been more numerous.
Two years earlier, on December 23, 2021, more than a hundred amendments were submitted to the budget of the Government of Zdravko Krivokapić.
The Democratic Front itself, whose list Krivokapić led and from which he was elected prime minister, submitted more than 60 amendments at the time.
The then Minister of Finance Milojko Spajić - lest I envy him, I am quoting from a fellow economist - "got angry with MPs and blackmailed them"...
Last year, on December 26, 150 amendments were added to the budget of the Government of Dritan Abazović.
Despite this, the traditionally noisy prime minister was not heard alive. Not out of fear, but because he knew that it was his duty to answer to the deputies, because they elect the prime minister, not their prime minister.
The traditionally miserly finance minister Aleksandar Damjanović did something then that none of his predecessors had done in three decades.
And, unlike Milojko Spajić, he accepted - almost all the requests to supplement the budget.
Now, the members of the ruling majority not only do not "clutter the budget" with amendments, but neither do the Prime Minister with questions.
Thanks above all to Andrija Mandić, they agreed not to ask him anything at all. Which, minus the violation of democratic procedure, is not a pity...
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It's just a pity that, immediately after that notification, the President of the Assembly was also buried somewhere. The amount of condescension that his double delivered to Milojko Spajić could only be expected from Andrija Mandić in the case of Aleksandar Vučić's visit.
- The Prime Minister has important obligations today - this is how the head of the parliament explained the withdrawal of the ruling MPs from the questions that had already been raised.
Underestimating all the representatives of the opposition who wanted to ask something first linguistically, because the conjunction "and" before important obligations means that today's Prime Minister's hour is unimportant.
And then he also underestimated them politically, because Milojko Spajić is not a guest who comes to visit MPs at his own discretion. But the prime minister, who is obliged to submit an account of his work to the parliament. And not just once a month, but whenever any majority of 41+ asks him to do so.
On a human level, according to the deputies, giving instructions for using the Prime Minister's Clock was also demeaning.
And especially the claim that "this is the first Government that came before the deputies a hundred days ago", and that, looking at the former Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, who submitted the first bill to the Parliament after the first month of his mandate.
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And what happened at the Prime Minister's Hour after that?
I don't know, they rushed it so much that it lasted less than the above-mentioned congress of admiration, which was organized by Mandić's doppelgänger in honor of Prime Minister Spajić.
I only heard that there is nothing from Europe now 2 except the first number from the hashtag 450/700/1000.
And that it will be reached according to the model of Europe now. Which, frankly, was what I feared the most, because the Health Care Fund was destroyed according to that model.
In the new year, it's the PIO Fund's turn.
When other questions came up - the prime minister talked about the census.
Which will be of crucial importance for the development of the north. After the prime minister's majority rejected more than fifty Ura amendments, which, for that north, only asked for some church money for roads and health centers...
Yes, I am weak on Ur, but this time I regretted the failed amendments of the Bosniak party.
It's good that at least Miloš Konatar supported them.
It's bad that, apparently, because of his support, they were rejected...
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