The new pre-election campaign in Budva brought us, after a five-month lull, a new "wave of official election tourism", with it the suddenly awakened concern of party leaders from Podgorica for the problems of the residents of our city.
This structure of tourists, along with the concern for the problems of the people of Budva, most of which need to be solved in the Government whose seat is in the Capital City, where the aforementioned "tables", also brought an indicative concern for who will create the government with whom after the elections. "Indicative" because the concern is reduced to insinuations about which of the competitors of the parties represented by these "tourists" could negotiate with them after the election with the supposedly hateful DPS, and the role of the most suspicious, as expected, belonged to the group "Budva naš grad" which does not have its headquarters in Podgorica and enjoys huge support from the voters.
It is, in fact, the same recipe with which certain constituents of the new government recently waged war against competitors who sincerely belong to the anti-DPS camp in the election campaign in Podgorica. The matrix is recognisable: the political entity, whose results the organizers of the hunt fear, is constantly suspected of preparing an alliance with the DPS, in order not to reduce its election results. This game has been used by the "licensed fighters against the DPS", who often have great and lucrative private relations with the officials of the former regime and don't mind having Milo Đukanović's trusted personnel sitting in their cabinets. In the past, in this way, they kept the status of the leader of the position, and now they keep the seats in the new government.
In the current election campaign in Budva, however, the old actors play this show more nervously than ever before, probably aware that they are running out of imagination and that they have been read. Nervousness is also raised by increasingly frequent whistles from the auditorium, where there are fewer and fewer young people.
The US President in the middle of the 19th century, Abraham Lincoln, brilliantly explained the problem that the aforementioned "armchair guards" are facing in Budva in the government and parliamentary offices in Podgorica, with the sentence: "You can lie to some people all the time, you can lie to all the people some of the time, but you can't lie to all the people all the time!" The problem for the "armchair guards" is that they didn't properly understand this lesson, so even through the media outside Montenegro, they once again tried to spread the lie that the group of citizens "Budva our city" is spreading with DPS.
Someone would characterize this kind of insistence on falsehood as political matchmaking, which is a reflection of a lack of ideas, talent and, above all, arguments. How else could one describe the insistence on extensive, but also the complete absence of healthy political polemics, exchange of arguments?
The model of the political struggle of this group, the impression of long-overdue politicians without charisma, against subjects they recognize as competition, was reduced exclusively to subterfuges in which the crowning point is that their competitor is preparing a coalition with DPS. Of course, the Democratic Party of Socialists has long been used to double-crossing with eternal party leaders from their former opposition, so it barely even now waited for a new "center shot" to pretend that those who are playing the game are actually bitter enemies.
Citizens' group "Budva our city" led by Nikola Jovanović, on the eve of the elections held on May 26 this year, after which it did not even negotiate, let alone try to form a government with DPS, repeated at the beginning of the campaign for the upcoming elections that adhere to the principle that the government in Budva will not cooperate with the headquarters of the former regime, nor with the New Serbian Democracy, at least until it proves that it has been cleansed of the influence of criminal structures.
Principledness was proven this summer, and there is no reason for anyone to fear how it will be different after November 17, although it is clear that after the upcoming elections, a much easier and simpler path to the formation of the government awaits us.
The "guardians of the armchairs", obviously, in the desperate hope that they can change the course of the process that brings about a change of generations but also of organizations on the Montenegrin political scene, which started in Budva but is also developing in other cities, resorted to a "double pass" with the DPS who have played so many times in past decades. As always - to the detriment of citizens and to your own personal benefit!
Precisely because of this kind of game, the group of citizens "Budva our city - Nikola Jovanović" publicly reiterated that it will stick to the principle announced on the eve of the previous elections - that it will not form a government with those against whom its members fought for 30 years, and who are responsible for the all the main deviations in our society, but not with those who intend to apply that model of governance in the future.
In this last item, in fact, is the essential "front line" of the upcoming elections in Budva: the "armchair guards" in Podgorica (and their henchmen in Budva) thought it would be profitable to adopt the model that DPS had been following for decades. A model that implies absolute control of business flows, connection with organized crime and the destruction of political competitors by misinforming and dissuading the public through controlled media and an army of bots.
Fortunately, that time has passed, and the "new Milo Đukanović" will not happen again (not even from AliExpress) in the foreseeable future, especially in Budva, where the former regime began. As it was four years ago, this city will again be the center of changes that imply, above all, positive selection.
In the current pre-election campaign, the citizens of Budva have the opportunity, perhaps like never before, to recognize who and with what potential for work in the public interest is fighting for their votes. The lack of knowledge, talent and skills cannot be hidden by running away from the public, hiding behind the bosses from the Podgorica headquarters and a dirty campaign.
But, in accordance with the popular saying that "it doesn't snow to cover a mountain", this pre-election campaign is also an ideal opportunity to show the public how much they know and what they are ready for, those who are not bothered by ignorance and anti-talent to fight for armchairs.
(list Budva our city - Nikola Jovanović)
