Members of the Government are guided exclusively by party interests when making decisions at executive branch meetings, because that is what drives them, so the fact that they outvote each other when considering important issues does not mean that the government is unstable, but rather that there is enough room for everyone to "settle down" and win over voters with their moves.
So a civic activist Stefan Djukic interprets what is ruling Milojko Spajić (Europe Now Movement) is not united when deciding on some important topics, but its members are outvoted, mainly along party lines.
The latest such case occurred at the beginning of the week, when the director of the Agency for Control and Quality Assurance of Higher Education was dismissed. Goran Danilović (United Montenegro). At the executive session, representatives of the constituents of the former Democratic Front (DF), as well as members of the Democrats and the Socialist People's Party (SNP) were against it (with an exception of opinion), while representatives of the Europe Now Movement and minority political entities - the Bosniak Party, the Albanian Forum and the Albanian Alliance - supported the dismissal.
Due to this and previous similar cases, the question arises: is the Government a "detuned orchestra" that will be subject to more and more similar events that could potentially shake it, or are these "incidents" that cannot shake the executive branch?
Speaking about runoffs, Stefan Đukić said that the system is structured in such a way that, in the end, "everything comes down to party interests."
"Lower-ranking members answer to the heads of committees, members of the main committees, executive bodies, all the way to the party leader. And that's all that is being thought about...", he told "Vijesti".
Asked whether the "frictions" at executive sessions, when deciding on important issues, mean that the government is unstable, the interviewee answered in the negative.
"It seems to me that it is very stable, because there is more than enough room for all politicians to 'settle'," said Djukic, recalling that there are several parties in the government and adding that "again, it functions without problems."

The government did not respond to "Vijesti"'s question about whether the fact that its members make decisions in accordance with party rather than public interests is an indicator of the instability of the executive branch. The Europe Now Movement, constituents of the former DF, SNP and BS, did not respond to the same query.
Head of the Democrats Parliamentary Club Boris Bogdanovic, told "Vijesti" that democracy implies and encourages different opinions, "especially in the case when the government is made up of parties with different political programs, parties of a civic and national character."
"It logically follows that different opinions are expected, and in our deep conviction, always welcome," he said.
He reminds that the Government is a collective body and that, according to its rules of procedure, a clear procedure has been established for making decisions at sessions, "which is a clear spirit of democracy and the rule of law."
"What good are rules of procedure for any body if it is assumed in advance that every decision will be made by consensus?" asks Bogdanović.

Ministers from his party pledged their support to the government in March last year, when he was appointed acting police chief at its marathon session, also by a majority vote and not by consensus. Aleksandar Radovic.
Radović was appointed on the Prime Minister's illegal proposal Spajić, for which the Democrats sued the Government in the Administrative Court, which dismissed the lawsuit as inadmissible. The crisis over this issue has lasted almost since the beginning of the Government's mandate (from November 2023), because neither the Europe Now Movement nor the Democrats wanted to give up on "their" candidates for the first man of the police.
The Democrats had pledged their support for the Government until it received the IBAR (Interim Benchmark Report for Chapters 23 and 24). The state received that document in June last year, and the Democrats no longer questioned their support for the Government. In the meantime, there have been changes at the top of the police force.
Another issue that has been disputed by the government's constituents is its decision to grant consent to the municipality of Berane to erect a monument to the late Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral. AmphilochiaThe government made the decision in September last year, prompting ministers from the Bosniak Party (BS) and Albanian parties to walk out of the executive session. They said their representatives took the step, among other things, because they believe that the construction of the monument to Amfilohije would not contribute to multi-religious harmony in Montenegro.
These parties were also "angry" at the beginning of this year, when the Speaker of Parliament Andrija Mandic (DF) congratulated Republika Srpska officials on January 9, the unconstitutional day of that entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. They announced the development of a joint strategy that will ask Prime Minister Spajić to take a stand on Mandić's moves, which, they claim, are causing divisions and damaging relations with neighbors.
It is not the first time that some of the ruling minority parties have clashed with Mandić on important issues, but despite this, they remain in their positions...
Stefan Đukić assesses that the constituents of the executive branch are not doing anything that other parties have not done.
"These parties are no worse than some others. We have seen, since they all had the opportunity to be in power, that they were always the same combinations...", he said.
Boris Bogdanović says that the stability of the Government should be judged by the number of MPs who supported it in parliament, and he adds that this is "the largest number of MPs in the history of Montenegrin parliamentarism."
"Therefore, it is clear that the stability of the parliamentary majority and the 44th Government of Montenegro until the end of its mandate, in 2027, is unquestionable. All attempts by the DPS (Democratic Party of Socialists) to jeopardize that stability are completely unsuccessful, and often ridiculous," the Democratic MP concluded.
Đukić: It's important that they step forward boldly, and what happens in the end is not important
Stefan Đukić believes that all politics boils down to which promises and performances will win the most votes for the parties.
"It's just important that they appear bold, strong, concerned, whatever... Well, what happens in the end is not particularly important."
He says that he was very pleased, regardless of what he thought about it, when the Minister of Economic Development and Deputy Prime Minister Nik Đeljošaj made a request to ban betting shops in order to enter the government. He states that it “seemed okay” to him, and that “it doesn’t matter whether the request is meaningful”, but rather “it is important that someone sets a certain policy as a condition for entering the government”.
"But, as we well know, none of that happened, it's not mentioned at all anymore. And other party combinations have been introduced - who will get how many positions of director, secretary, public official, etc."
He notes that the entire system, "no matter how much it had some professionalization, like the old-fashioned laws", ultimately came down to "a political class defined through parties".
"It is impossible for an individual to enter the system without that support."
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