New ideas scare people who live in the past and on past achievements. It is the same with the idea of decentralization of power, which is slowly awakening in Montenegro, mostly and fastest in Budva.
Although it is a trend that brings enormous progress in terms of functionality, operability, speed of work... and therefore the quality of local self-governments, political subjects with ossified structures, accustomed to "thinking from one head", do not agree with it. This is the reason why all the parties and individuals who have created currents on the political scene of Montenegro for years united in resistance to the process of decentralization of power, especially in Budva, a city that most of them perceive as a prey.
The matrix by which these political structures ossified, sometimes only fictitiously opposed, is known: both of them supposedly defend the state and that, so that the tragicomedy of their politics is greater - than each other. Of course, with the aim of causing damage to a third party, and in this case it is those who advocate decentralization. On the example of Budva, the key opponent of the "ossified" is the party that advocates that this city is not managed from Podgorica and for the interests of the party headquarters in the capital.
The management of Budva from Budva, most of the structures that fear the process of decentralization, perceive it as a loss of positions at the state level. Hence the landing of "party leaders" with offices in Podgorica and in this pre-election campaign in Budva.
The same is the "origin" of the insinuation that the civic list "Budva naš grad" is preparing for a coalition with DPS. This is actually the key trump card of the ossified structures in the fight against new ideas and the young people who carry them in Budva: by sowing fear among citizens, they reduce the turnout in elections and thereby increase the influence of their increasingly small "voting machine", lubricated by the benefits brought by the state government. In translation: the fight for power in Budva is for them a battle to keep their seats.
DPS has been in this game for four years as a "babaroga" that serves to defend the official positions and the benefits they carry. That's why, in these circles, concern for Budva is born only in pre-election periods. Only then do the eternal party leaders and their eternal "closest collaborators" remember that the city, which fills the state budget with over half a billion euros with tourism revenues alone, does not have a hospital or a maternity hospital.
That game also suits DPS, because the "divide and rule" policy was created in their workshop, so new ideas about reconciliation, joint struggle for the common good and the young people who carry it are recognized as a danger and not an opportunity. Because, as only the "arch-enemies of Montenegro" from the matrix of the former regime were desirable to be in opposition to the DPS, so every appearance of new forces, people who bring essential changes, is a risk for the "formers".
Due to the above-mentioned phenomena, it is happening that the municipal government in Budva, which saved 41 million euros from its citizens only in a lawsuit with the Austrian-German concern WTE, whose relationship to the city is evidenced by the fact that it currently has 17 million euros in its Budva account, "has ossified structures " they recognize as a problem.
This relationship best illustrates what these structures are really fighting for. The former regime perfectly demonstrated this with the corruption scandals in which Budva almost suffered damage of over 100 million euros. From that and similar achievements of the former government, we are still defending the citizens of Budva, and the irony is that from certain structures of the new state government, they are accusing those who essentially fight against the achievements of the DPS in Budva, planning to join them in a coalition! Especially when such brokering comes from individuals who bring to their cabinets proven cadres of the former government, especially prominent in the attack on church property.
Everything actually boils down to stopping the process of decentralization, preventing the existence of local self-government that does not satisfy the interests of the individuals who occupied seats in the state government, but works exclusively for the account of the citizens of Budva.
There is also the problem of certain structures from the underground, which in Budva in the past years have often changed political positions in search of the party with which they can best settle for the sake of realizing their interests, which of course have nothing to do with the interests of the citizens. On the eve of the previous and this election, the Budva underground, not by chance, found itself in the camp where the biggest disproportion between the appetite and the potential of the nominal leaders of that political actor is. "Not by chance" because the described disproportion is a recommendation for cooperation with the underground.
The citizens of Budva can best see the confirmation of this statement about the disproportion of appetite and potential in the current pre-election campaign, because certain leaders of the electoral lists are absent from public appearances and pre-election debates. And this, above all comical detail, reveals to the people of Budva who is fighting for power, and with what intentions.
It is up to the citizens to choose the option that will save the city from satisfying the personal interests of the ossified structures with armchairs in Podgorica, and their partners from the underground. This requires a massive turnout for the elections on November 17, because the low turnout suits exactly those who rely on the "voting machine" created to satisfy the private interests of the eternal leaders and their business partners.
(Budva is our city)
