You know that children's game when you say the name of your crush and then pluck a flower petal by petal saying "love me - don't love me". Well, Ivica Stanković, acting director of VDT, is probably playing that game these days.
First he said DPS, then started plucking the petals. In the end, it turns out that Stanković is loved by a woman called Velimir Rakočević, a professor at the Faculty of Law, a criminal whose arguments for VDT's innocence, during a recent guest appearance on TV A1, boil down to the fact that he would give both hands up to the elbows if Stanković was honest because he knows him personally 30 years.
Now he promised him honesty and trust for three months.
The fact that the petals they don't like were the representative of the Ministry of Justice, i.e. the Government Nataša Radonjić, and "prominent lawyers", whatever that means, Aneta Spaić, Milan Filipović and Ranka Čarapić - all close to the government - I guess it should be proof that there is a part DPS who do not like Stanković.
Thus, those with a medium-term memory remind how people trusted by Prime Minister Duško Marković, before the election of Stanković in 2014, offered certain opposition members allegedly compromising materials for the then powerful VDT. This may be why it took a long time for Stanković and SDT Milivoj Katnić to "emigrate" the materials about cigarette smuggling from the factory in Mojkovac from the prosecutor's office. I guess that should mean that Marković is using this situation to remove Stanković.
All in all, Ivica is in the dark, and voters do not know the position of the ruling party on VDT and the affair.
DPS is playing dead again. According to the old custom.
The only thing that both the DPS and the Government say is that for the election of the VDT and members of the Judicial Council, the Constitution should be amended and a simple majority should be introduced, as an unblocking mechanism. Genius idea!
What do Srđa Darmanović and Zoran Pažin think about it, as members of the Venice Commission, which in its opinion in 2013 on the draft constitutional amendments was based on that old idea of DPS?
While he will present his current position in the Prosecutor's Council as proof of the independence of the prosecution, in front of representatives of the international community he will shake his head in disbelief at the story of the marriage of Stanković's son and Darko Šarić's daughter. The Montenegrin version of the Hollywood scenario about the intertwining of the state and the Sinaloa or Medellin cartel.
The opposition has nothing to pretend to be dead. She is politically dead.
The initiation of the initiative to remove Stanković after the affair broke out was the first logical move of the opposition. And that only because he refused to come to the control hearing before the Anti-Corruption Committee, which was initiated by Predrag Bulatović and which was the only meaningful thing someone from the opposition did.
Ever since the multi-party system was introduced in Montenegro, only Edin Efović, Ivica Stanković and Milivoje Katnić did not appear before a parliamentary committee at the hearing. Edin is a fictional character, the one from the tobacco scandal who gave the government an interest-free loan for two small planes in the late 90s. Stankovic, the way he behaves and the way he positions himself, is almost a character from the imagination. The VDT is replaced by the parliament in the same way as it was elected - by two-thirds, or three-fifths of the deputies. That initiative, for which the opposition had more than enough deputies, would open many questions. From how the Speaker of the Parliament, Ivan Brajović, whose false testimony was proved by the court, made the prosecution an object of ridicule because it did not prosecute him, then the inadmissible state of affairs in the judiciary and the prosecution, to whether the DPS would vote against Stanković or abstained, which is the same as if he had voted for him. The political impotence of the opposition, on the other hand, opens up other issues. From whether Draginja Vuksanović Stanković insults the intelligence of the voters when she shares on her FB profile Rasko Konjević's harsh statement about her husband and the situation in the Prosecutor's Council, whether the Democrats are afraid of being reminded that the member of the Presidency of that party, Neven Gošović, as a member of the SNP, voted in the Assembly for Stanković, what about those binding instructions of Stanković in the spring of 2017, by which he saved first Mandić and Knežević, and later Medojević from Katnić's plans to put them in casemates and calmed political tensions in Montenegro.
Then the DPS publicly disciplined Stanković through a party statement, just as Đukanović admonished Katnić in an interview a year earlier for "getting a little carried away".
I am surprised that the opposition did not use these details to massacre each other with announcements. All too often those from the wood can't see the forest.
If Stanković had been doing the job for which he was elected and paid well for the past 5 years, if the prosecution had raised nothing more than two obvious indictments for "big fish", few people today would believe Duško Knežević that he had corrupted VDT. If he was serious about his work, characters like Secretary Nenad Vujošević would not be walking around the Prosecutor's Office.
Thinking more about the political implications in numerous affairs than about their work, Stanković and the entire prosecution created an excellent basis for this affair, regardless of how accurate Knežević's accusations were or not.
The fact that DPS is now washing its hands of Stanković should only serve as a good lesson to other state officials who stand on the side of that party.
And the opposition would have to understand - they don't have to go to each other's weddings and funerals - but they have to have a minimum of coordination and trust. If they want to threaten DPS at all. If they are not already plucking DPS petals, love me-don't love me, for the time after the 2020 election
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