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Mandić and the coup d'état

Elections are becoming meaningless little by little, and the force and the street, together with BIL people, determine who will be in power

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Photo: Vijesti/Boris Pejović
Photo: Vijesti/Boris Pejović
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With 10 percent of his party's support, or 15+ as much as the ZBCG coalition is aiming for, Mandic has become the absolute master of Montenegro. Because it controls the Government through the Prime Minister, the security sector through Bogdanović, the Public Service through Drljević, and the minorities through Ibrahimović. Recently, he anesthetized and extinguished the president of the state Milatović, so the noises that have been heard from that address in recent months are just an ugly and already forgotten past.

Whether, as Jovanović claims, a small coup was attempted in Budva, which would turn out to be more serious than the big one in Podgorica in 2016, the competent institutions should announce.

But if for the prosecutor's office the situation in Budva is still undefined or hot, for the lay public the events of the day before yesterday in the capital of tourism are just a new contribution to the gloomy picture of the state of Montenegrin democracy and institutions. Montenegro really looks more and more like Dodikland, or Vučićstan, and the bad times of Đukanović and DPS are now more often mentioned with nostalgia than with anger or contempt.

Councilors from all parties and coalitions came to the scheduled constitutive session of the Budva Municipal Council, the discussion begins, a majority is crystallized for the election of the president of the Municipal Council, the respected Budva resident Petar Odžić, so that the floor, that is, power, will be taken over from the elected councilors by "sympathizers" of the so-called liberators from 30 . in August. Among them are security-interesting persons from the local level. Both warring camps are accused of patronizing BIL persons, guns are also mentioned, only Joanikije, Milo Božović and Vlada Mandić were missing. With the fact that Milo was the only one who was justifiably absent.

As if in a war zone and not in the SO building, part of the councilors, led by the state secretary of the MUP, apparently thanks to the numerous support of "sympathizers", occupy the solemn hall of the SO, while the unsuspecting new mayor Nikola Jovanović, with his followers, retreats to the cabinet. To reserve position. So, in an IBAR country, as the honorable prime minister would say, a future EU member would add a weak president, how long will master Manda carry us on his back, we have another "hostage crisis", as ironically described by the DPS spokesman. Similar to the one that has been going on for several years in Šavnik, for several months in Andrijevica, and recently blocked the state parliament. Elections are thus becoming meaningless little by little, and the force and the street, together with BIL people, determine who will be in power.

This was publicly confirmed by a formal Mandić list holder, Mladen Mikijelj, repeating the well-known phrase that "he will not allow the will of the citizens to be manipulated". I guess for that purpose, even though both sides made accusations about the break-in of various "sympathizers" in the SO building, and about BIL people, even armed, all that was not enough for the police to interfere in their work. She remained on the sidelines because Mandić, Spajić and Bogdanović lacked the majority to constitute the government. If it had been the other way around, one gets the impression, Šćepanović's policemen would have been more effective than Veljović's, also in Budva 2020.

That is the second, more than clear message from Budva - the captured security sector, which is commanded by the unsuspecting Minister of the Interior, Boris Bogdanović. Do you remember that the man, at the last moment, before the election of this tragic government, asked for a replacement and pushed a puppet from Danilo Saranović into that place. With that, the so-called security sector was decapitated and reduced to a puppet theater in which one deputy, BB, holds three persons, formally the most responsible, the head of the sector, the minister and the director of the police. Pavino Polje and two people were killed were few, even Cetinje was few, with 13 lives lost, not even a week has passed and the MUP and the police are once again acting as a farcical squad of scouts, and not as a professional state body that, in accordance with the highest standards, protects order and legality in the country.

Third, and most tragically - what we suspected after four years of broken promises and killed hope, hope for change - is now more than obvious. Mandić, his puppets Spajić, Bogdanović and now Milatović, with the support of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Belgrade regime and the mafia (not Milo's "Kavčani" but their "Skaljarci") are ready to set Montenegro on fire in order to preserve power. It turns out that the deceived and criminalized Đukanović and the DPS were Pericles and ancient Greece in terms of respecting democratic standards related to at least recognizing election results. Milo handed over power without a word in 2020, after three decades of autocracy - Mandić and the company, after only four years of abuse of power, are sending a clear message that they will not give up power without blood. Which means that before the civil war they will try to "legally" win the elections by using all the criminal activities that were once attributed exclusively to the DPS.

After the latest events in Budva, the August majority definitely crossed the Rubicon, and took responsibility for introducing the country into a kind of state of emergency. The consequences could be tragic if Prime Minister Spajić does not abdicate and call for elections. Ibrahimović and Đeljošaj definitely cannot play the fig leaf of the criminal and nationalist authorities anymore. Instead of a new platform and the alleged restraint of Lord Mandić, BS and the Albanian parties should leave the freak Government and thus make a real contribution to the delegitimization of the obvious chaos and usurpation of power by the head of the Assembly. There is not much time left, Montenegro is on the verge of an abyss.

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