No party has given more to other parties than the SNP has. Fairly - as their maxim and unofficial motto says. Fairly, the parties have given to this rocky political scene of Montenegro.
They have been falling apart for decades, and they can't seem to lock themselves in, to give up. Despite everything, they leave them, almost before every election they get another wing, an outflow of people and nothing. The SNP keeps going, like a FAP machine. The SNP is like the Djekna of the political scene. They are falling apart in installments, indefinitely, and just when you think they are gone, in some city they become a weight on the scales, negotiate, well, come to life. The Phoenix party from election to election. You should know that!
What a party it is, all-powerful and powerless. What they have overcome. They must be given credit, they are consistent, but only to themselves. They have overcome everything, no soup has gone without them, sometimes they are the bay leaf, and sometimes they are the salt. But the important thing is that they exist, even if they are the size of a pea.
Because, after so many years, they are almost the headline news of the summer of 2025 on almost all news on all televisions. The affair could be called “Give me back my mandate!” As if it were a relay race or a trophy, it must be returned when it leaves the party. This is understood, the two leaders of the SNP communicate through the media, exchange statements, announce the establishment of a new party and the withdrawal of the ministerial mandate.
All of this sounds grotesque, but it is unfortunately true. The SNP is like a hydra, no matter how many arms they tear off, it still doesn't give up. A self-sufficient party. It has some councilors, lists, it is infinitely persistent. Loyalty must be acknowledged, but not to those who lead, but to those who persistently vote. There are few of them, but they are steadfast, like the ravines.
It is possible that things will turn around someday, that some new parties will disappear like a comet, which has already happened with Pozitivna and various movements of a liberal and civic nature, but the SNP will survive even a meteor strike if there ever is one.
Perhaps the best political billboard in Montenegro is the SNP thanking its voters after the elections. They count how many they received and thank them. It's a gesture, others don't do that, and maybe that's the strength of the SNP as we know it today, the survivors of the shipwreck. They don't skip a single funeral, rally, protest, because if more than five people are gathered somewhere, someone from the SNP will at least pass by to greet them. It's as if they've made a combination of Johnny Walker's slogan "Keep walking" and Pink Floyd's song "Keep talking". The SNP just keeps going, they go around and talk, door to door.
There is something in that party that the others don't want to apply, but they should. Maybe it's the constant party meetings and conversations until dawn, where everyone listens to everyone, maybe it's the respect, the insistence on honesty, but something exists. There is something in that SNP, something that everyone has underestimated, some spark, a secret that only they know. They know a certain way about the people of Montenegro, as if they are bewitching them, always a similar number of people who go around in circles. The vicious circle of the SNP.
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