The events of recent days - from Budva to Podgorica - show that historical dates that divide Montenegrin society are a powerful tool that politicians use when it is in their interest.
The new government in Budva thus used November 8 to remember the Serbian liberators of Budva, which led to protests by several dozen citizens, as well as parties and organizations close to the former government.
When the then mayor of Budva, Lazar Rađenović from the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), did it in 2013, everything went almost unnoticed.
Yesterday brought a similar situation, when the DPS effectively blackmailed the new parliamentary majority by not attending the parliamentary session at which the government will be elected, if it is held on November 24, as was the Podgorica Assembly in 1918, at which Montenegro lost its statehood.
On that date in 2016, Ivan Brajović was elected head of parliament.
"The President of the Assembly was elected on November 24, 2016, and now the fact that the session at which the vote on the Government of Montenegro should be held on the same date four years later is again presented as a kind of national betrayal and insult to Montenegro is being questioned , and the fact that the previous government was elected on November 28, and that on November 28, 1918, it was at that Podgorica Assembly that the current provisional government was elected," said Srdan Kosović, chief and responsible editor of Vijesti.
Despite everything, instead of the session on November 24, when it was originally scheduled, the new Government will be elected on December 2.
"The DPS obviously did not or still does not want to learn the lesson of August 30, that is, it still wants to use the technique of "divide and rule" to try to prevent the new government from consolidating or forming at all. On the other hand, it shows that the new majority due to a series of things, probably also its heterogeneity, it constantly needs to justify itself and to prove itself, i.e. to justify its loyalty to the state, and thus the postponement of the session for December 2 shows that," Kosović said.
From a health and economic point of view, the postponement of the parliamentary session is a desperate move by the people's representatives in the parliament, says Srđan Perić from the KOD Organization.
"If in these economic and health circumstances you have the imposition of those topics, then it is simply clear that you have different priorities compared to something related to existence, bare survival, finding a more stable environment in which to live and work," he said. Perić.
Although he blames both political parties for this, Perić says, the ball is still in the court of those who won the victory on August 30.
"It takes two to tango. As a citizen, I did not want to listen to the personal or identity-related views of any representative of the future government or the previous government, and that was imposed as a topic. The new government must impose the topic of economy and health, it must relaxes things that are of minor importance on a collective level," said Perić.
Citizens also agree with that.
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