WORLD NEWS FOR MONTENEGRO DIASPORA
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AUTHOR: M.J.
Montenegro needs a broad pro-European government that will gain legitimacy in extraordinary parliamentary elections, said Andrija Nikolić, head of the Club of Deputies of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), stating that otherwise, after the reconstruction, a radical right-wing government will be formed.
Nikolić said that Montenegro is at a crossroads when it comes to the government.
"Either they will move in the direction of forming a stable, broad, pro-European government, which is reached through extraordinary parliamentary elections, or Prime Minister Milojko Spajić will opt for a radical right-wing government that will produce incidents and continue to produce problems," Nikolić told the MINA agency.
As he stated, such a government will continue to create problems for Montenegro and international partners.
"I think we need the broadest pro-European government that will gain its legitimacy in the next parliamentary elections," said Nikolić.
He said that Spajć in the company of the former Democratic Front (DF) feels like a "political star" and that he has a problem when he should stand next to the new political generation of the DPS.
"Then he obviously lacks self-confidence and I think that the only thing that keeps Spajić's populists and Mandić's (Andrije) nationalists together is the fear of DPS returning to power, which would happen through extraordinary parliamentary elections," added Nikolić.
Because of this, according to Nikolić's assessment, Spajić and Mandić are "running away" from being checked before the citizens.
Nikolić said that, if the interests of the citizens were valued, the elections should have already been held.
"Bearing in mind that for four years Montenegro was a victim of greedy governments and people who only cared about how they would satisfy their interests in the government, and not about the interests of the citizens," said Nikolić and added that today Montenegro is a victim of people's rotten compromises who are sitting in armchairs.
He believes that Prime Minister Milojko Spajić for a time resisted malignant influences from outside, especially in the face of the formation of the government.
"But then the current president of the country "helped" him, installing the Democratic Front (DF) in the Government, and Andrija Mandić in the leading position in the Parliament of Montenegro, and today it is a question of when both of them (Spajić and Milatović) will pay the political price price", said Nikolić.
As he said, Milatović as the president of the country has already become politically isolated, and Spajić has been politically blackmailed to such an extent that he is sliding towards political irrelevance.
Nikolić said that the fact that Serbia has not yet issued an order to overthrow the current Government of Montenegro shows how much Spajić is under the control of Mandić.
"Spajić has degraded his political role to such an extent that everything he is doing right now sounds like the most beautiful symphony to the ears of Aleksandar Vučić," said Nikolić.
He believes that Spajić agreed to a humiliating role, an inferior Prime Minister compared to his neighbor.
"Then you can't expect serious, competent decisions that follow state responsibility," said Nikolić.
On the other hand, as he said, Mandić can't wait to get the New Serbian Democracy (NSD) into the government, so as not to formalize his status as "Dodik of Montenegro".
"In other words, he continued to carry out works from the heart of the system, from the Government of Montenegro, to the formation of the third Serbian state," added Nikolić.
Speaking about the Resolution on the Genocide in Jasenovac, Nikolić assessed that the adoption of that resolution in the Montenegrin parliament is the beginning of the end of the current government.
"And I think that the fact that the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, postponed his visit to Montenegro and his address to the parliament after receiving the Report on the Assessment of the Fulfillment of the Temporary Criteria for Chapters 23 and 24 (IBAR), as well as the subsequent exclusion of the paragraph from the European Council's declaration, is actually a warning before expulsion, first of all, for Spajić," said Nikolić.
He said that nothing good can be expected after that, especially from people who are politically blackmailed.
"If Spajić decides to form a radical right-wing government, then it is certain that he will receive a red card from our international partners, i.e. from Brussels, because in that situation, who would be reasonable and rational could expect some constructive contribution from NSD and the Democratic People's Party in the government" , said Nikolić.
He asked who could then assume that they would work on improving relations with Croatia, through which Montenegro must enter the European Union (EU).
"You cannot bypass Croatia and have the idea that one day you will become a member of the EU," said Nikolić and pointed out that he sees the announced reconstruction of the Government as a potential danger.
Speaking about the formation of the Party of European Progress (SEP) and the European Union, Nikolić said that it should be welcomed whenever there is a consolidation of political forces on the civil and pro-Western spectrum of the political scene in Montenegro.
"I think that the formation of the European Union, that is, the joining of civil political organizations with other parliamentary traditions, is a move in the right direction," said Nikolić.
He said that DPS, as the strongest force in the civil political block in Montenegro, it has only reason to welcome such an orientation that should help or be an additional contribution to civil policies.
Nikolić reminded that the DPS welcomed the need of SEP leader Duško Marković to insist on some new originality on the political scene and his ambition to check how much that originality is worth on the political market.
As he emphasized, there is nothing in the story that Marković formed the party in agreement with the DPS.
"We don't need the Yugoslav left, as the Socialist Party of Serbia once needed a reserve political position in the form of that party," Nikolić pointed out and said that DPS is only interested in their party and how to improve it.
Asked how he sees the potential entry of the Bosniak Party into the Government, he said that the party is a long-term strategic ally of the DPS in all healthy struggles for a civil and European Montenegro and an autonomous political entity that autonomously makes political decisions.
Nikolić said that he believes that there are people in the BS who have a high level of respect for the political legacy of Rafeto Husović.
"If I were to give myself the right to interpret what the historical-political legacy of Husović would be, then I would certainly say that it is not a political alliance with nationalist and destructive policies," Nikolić concluded.
