I love it when people rush in and shout about an event and call the crowd “protesters”. What a mistake, the ball flies into the sky and there is no goalkeeper on the goal. But it is okay when that slip and mistake happens to someone who is not skilled in washing clothes or at least does not pretend to be skilled. But when someone who is “involved” in protests calls the crowd Protestants instead of demonstrators, then it is more funny than wrong. It is escalating into religious education.
A similar thing happens when listing mayors in Montenegro. Only some cities have their own mayors, while others have presidents of municipalities. Is that right? Who knows, but that's the situation on the ground. Some places have the status of a city and some places have the status of a municipality. In other words, unnecessary complications. If we were lucky, the whole of Montenegro would function at the level of a few competing regions, but cities have remained a bad practice of old opportunities for employment for local politically suitable relatives, party colleagues and idlers.
But the bottom line is that when we look at the dailies, newspapers and portals, when we see the reactions of citizens, people respect some mayors more than they respect ministers in the government. Why? Because they work. Period.
Because it is obvious how much work someone does and how much effort someone puts in. Municipal presidents (mayors) deal with specific problems and find solutions, they have to roll up their sleeves and there is little room for fraud. Today there is much less room for maneuver than there was in "that" time when they could do anything without anyone asking them anything. They used to stuff envelopes into their pockets and nobody would know.
Therefore Vladimir Jokic leads Kotor so calmly that it seems as if everything is fine there or far better than it was. It is similar with Podgorica, no matter how much we criticize DPS (rightly), Ivan Vukovic He was enterprising and wanted to prove himself, he started certain things from a dead end, but he could not move away from the party. They resented his political affiliation more than his actual management of the city. Saša Mujović, regardless of the Botun affair, it is obvious that he is slowly winning the favor of the residents of Podgorica, because it is evident that he is trying.
At the expense of Marko Kovačević There are various criticisms and lawsuits, but the people of Nikšić would not have elected him twice in a row if he did not bring concrete results. If you go to Danilovgrad and ask about the work Aleksandar Grgurović, you'll hardly hear anything bad that isn't related to party politics.
The point is that everything in the city is easier to see. Whoever cares, he takes care of the city, cleans the streets for a start, paints the facades and takes care of the greenery. People need little, people love their cities. This can be seen in the example of the aforementioned mayors, who (almost) all come from different political camps, and yet do something (well).
Perhaps over time, this trend will spread, so that the more city leaders are from as many parties as possible, the more they will look out for each other, they will pay attention to who is doing what, they will catch each other's mistakes, and they will copy each other when someone does something well.
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