When in the fall of 1999, the then President of the country received the first medal for democracy, I was given the honor of writing the first column for Graffiti.
Newspapers from paper, that's how it was written in the header in spite of the state Victory and its slogan Newspapers from words...
A combination of circumstances in the domestic media field made it my last column, on the eve of a six-year hiatus.
Unlike Milo Đukanović, who was not given a break by the West, in the next two decades he received a lot of the aforementioned medals. And not only in metal but also in paper.
Despite the fact that the North Atlantic Alliance bombarded (i) Montenegro in the spring of that year, its President was also bombarded with verbal medals.
- Montenegro is becoming more and more democratized every day in every respect. This is evidenced by the numerous statements of foreign train conductors, who stay on Montenegrin platforms for as long as two or three hours... While we wait for His results, the Western world shows extraordinary patience for our decline. Because that world doesn't live in Montenegro, we do - that's how I saw Đukanović's path to freedom, justice and equality...
And congresses of admiration that the democratic world organized in his honor, even though he did not start the road to democracy not only at the end of the twentieth century, but also for the next twenty years.
* * *
What the hell is forcing the European Union to support Milojko Spajić with the same enthusiasm, I don't know... I just sincerely hope that it won't last for the next three years, let alone three decades...
I know, this hope is fragile, because the amount of admiration shown to him from Brussels in the first year of his reign dangerously competes with the compliments that have been given to his longest-serving predecessor since the end of the last century.
This week, the European Commission adopted the reform agenda of Montenegro. Thanks to the positive opinion of all EU member states, this is how it was explained.
In principle, without a single detail on which to base that positive opinion.
If those details do not include the above-mentioned exceptional patience for our decline... And traditionally, because we first heard Ursula von der Leyen's words that she was "impressed by the work of our partners..." a quarter of a century ago from Madeleine Albright...
They were later repeated by all politicians from the West... Until we touched the political, economic, educational, cultural and - most important of all - moral bottom.
* * *
Thanks to the Government, that bottom has been broken.
On this occasion, gratitude should also be expressed to the ruling majority from the August 2020th majority, which in just one year took over almost all the Dripac manners of the former regime from the XNUMXs before XNUMX...
Spajić even advanced some of them, because at the beginning of his reign, Đukanović did not avoid the truth whenever he had the opportunity, but only sometimes...
And not that the prime minister is still - uh, I have to choose words - ... bypassing... but the stones are rolling...
Unlike the true heir, the legal successor of the President of Montenegro inherited from his predecessor only the address of the office...
And he tries to use that address, as well as constitutional powers, for general interests.
How do I know? Well, from the media, I never met Jakov Milatović. I didn't vote for him even in the crucial second round, and because of the right-wing of the one I voted for in the first round, I'm a little short of writing now - I hope my right hand has dried up...
After the elections in Podgorica, I am convinced of one thing: if he had cared about his interests, he would not have thought of getting involved in the local campaign...
Let alone lend his name to a list which, for five years, is inseparable from the function of the President.
Of course, he knew what chances the civic idea had in Montenegro, but - unlike all his predecessors - he tried to benefit it, even to his own detriment...
* * *
Not even the latest public analysis of ten worrying trends in Montenegro will be of use to him.
It could be for Montenegro, if the majority in it could break their heads and believe only with their eyes. Because those trends not only "call into question the democratic progress achieved so far after the change of government in 2020", but they almost completely canceled it.
Because even the most important laws are adopted without public discussion and consultation with the professional public, and in addition, political control of the most important institutions is legalized.
There are no signs of substantial reform of public administration and the judiciary, but there is a pursuit of agents of foreign influence from the civil sector and the media.
There are also analyzes of populist economic measures, but in vain, the populus did not want to understand even when economists warned about it in popular language...
There is even Šavnik, who has become a symbol of intelligence, strength and knowledge of the new generation of "young, beautiful and smart"...
The election in Podgorica and the election of coalition partners - which is yet to come on Jakov Milatović's list - are not included in this analysis.
Although, the biggest problem is not that they are not in it, but his silence on the subject may mean that the restoration of the previous coalition government in the capital is still possible...
And it's not... Or it shouldn't be...
After all...
P.S. After all, the former mentor of Milojko Spajić and Jakov Milatović should not have advertised either. He who stumbles is wise in his defenses, and Zdravko Krivokapić did not stumble, but shamed himself for an extended period of time. And he continued, because it is not true that he "withdrew from the political quagmire", but he was timely prevented from planning to turn Montenegro into a quagmire. And not only political... And what he wanted with this reduction of the conflict between the President of the State and the Government to a personal level, only he knows. Despite the fact that he knows them better, I still think that it is a question of clashing between two ways of conducting state policy, and above all on the moral level. And I hope that Milatović will not deny me...
Bonus video:
