"It is difficult to say what the personnel arrangements will be in the new Government of Montenegro, except that less is known and it is almost certain that its prime minister will be the leader of Ura, Dritan Abazović," said the former head of Montenegrin diplomacy, Srđan Darmanović.
Darmanović, who was a guest on N1, pointed out that minority parties will certainly enter the government.
"The concept is that the Democratic Front does not participate in it, and those who want a new government are not in the interest of the current government having a technical mandate for a long time," Darmanović points out.
He added that the previous government was marked by its formation and the change of government after thirty years, and it was characteristic not only close cooperation with the SPC but also a subordinate position.
"There were also people who are loyal and in a close relationship with the SPC. That government came to a good extent on the wave of Serbian nationalism. It was very heterogeneous. The coalition partners were ideologically united by nothing other than the effort to replace the socialists," said Darmanović.
He also believes that apart from the fact that Montenegro lost a huge amount of time, in a broader sense it is not bad for society to get used to the fall of governments and that the end of the world will not happen because of this.
"The status of religious communities is regulated by law. There is a kind of division between CPC and SPC among the Orthodox. The SPC was imposed and the autocephalous CPC was deleted by decree. I do not want to dispute that the SPC has majority support in Montenegro, but it is clear what role religious communities played in the conflicts. The SPC denies the Montenegrin identity and its leaders do not hide that," said Darmanović.
When asked whether there might be reconciliation now, Darmanović thinks that no government can do that in the short term.
"Probably, the outcome of this crisis would not have looked like this if Montenegro was not a member of NATO, that gives it the status of being an ally of the organization based on the principle of 'all for one, one for all'. If that were not the case, it is likely that some other powers present in the Western Balkans, with their allies, would have acted even more strongly towards Montenegro in a political sense", says Darmanović, adding that this is evidenced by the fact that both the EU and NATO members are paying attention followed what happened in the past year.
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