Photo: AP Photo/Risto BozovićThe leaders of the Europe Movement now represent a generation of new, desirable personalities on the political scene for whom politics is not life itself. And fundamentally, they received largely blank support, because the others spent theirs heavily. The fact is, however, that hopeful support is lost the fastest
Three ministers from Zdravko Krivokapić's government will soon occupy all three key positions in the political life of Montenegro.
Until a little over a year ago, a politically anonymous person, Jakov Milatović, was elected president of the country, defeating Milo Đukanović, who had been uncontested for almost three decades.
Olivera Injac took the seat of mayor of Podgorica, and Milojko Spajić, the "apostolic minister of the military", president of the Europe Now Movement, is seen by everyone as the new Montenegrin prime minister after Sunday's extraordinary parliamentary elections.
From experts to representatives of hope
They started their engagement in the executive power as experts. Without the visible influence of any political group, although part of the public, primarily because of the personality of Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić and his closeness to the Serbian Orthodox Church, called them the "apostolic government".
The majority of the public had high hopes for that Government, which was created as a result of the influence of the SPC, but also as a compromise between strongly opposing political entities with different views not only of the current moment, but also of the future of Montenegro.
Despite the slowness and relative inefficiency contributed to by the permanent absence of support from parts of the parliamentary majority, that Government managed to start implementing a set of economic measures called "Europe Now". The minimum labor price was raised from 220 to 450 euros and this had a direct positive impact on the standards of the largest part of the Montenegrin population, people they call "losers of the transition".
From the point of view of the citizens of Montenegro, the results were very tangible and raised the hope that the executive power finally does not belong to the political elite, but works in the public interest.
A place of good life
The fall of Zdravko Krivokapić's government marked the end of hope for a better existence for the majority of citizens. Today, the reactions of the first people of the Europe Now Movement were their insistence on the continuation of economic reforms and the positioning of the Movement as a group with primarily economic reasons for political engagement and with a vision of Montenegro as a good place to live.
And that is largely the most significant reason for their success. The ministers who awakened hope stepped onto the political stage by reawakening it. They came to ministerial positions without the ballast of previous mistakes, as complete unknowns. They brought something that was measurable and simple to citizens - higher incomes.
They were the first and obvious victims of disappointing policies. Not only the Democratic Party of Socialists, which the majority public perceived as the protagonist of corruption and protector of crime, but also the post-DPS majority, which they saw as sparring partners in national-identity conflicts that keep society in a vicious circle and are eager for pure political profit.
The secret of success
When all is said and done, Europe's success is no longer an enigma. It lies firstly in the fact that they do not belong to a bad experience, that they did not have the opportunity to make mistakes, secondly, that they are the direct victims of policies that have not proven their effectiveness and thirdly, that they have enabled the most numerous Montenegrin population to somehow overcome the era of the pandemic and dull the edge of economic crisis and rising inflation.
Their success is actually more a punishment for the failed parliamentary majority than faith in the "Europe Now 2" program.
If we add to all this the completely different style of the first people of PES, their body language, the fact that behind them are results, successful professional and not political careers, we come to a whole corpus of reasons for their success.
They represent a generation of new, desirable personalities on the political scene for whom politics is not life itself. And fundamentally, they received largely blank support, because the others spent theirs heavily.
The fact is, however, that hopeful support is lost the fastest.
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