The most fascinating fact is that the tunnel was dug for more than a month in the very center of the city, where in a diameter of three hundred meters there are the buildings of the Assembly, the Government, the President, the premises of the High Court, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court. This indicates a complete failure of all security services and of course the procedures for securing important state institutions. This very fact supports the thesis that the mafia conquered the entire marketing team of the Government of Montenegro
Is the marketing of the Montenegrin government in the technical mandate stronger than the mafia? Just a few days after the discovery of the break-in at the High Court depot, where court files and evidentiary materials of numerous criminal proceedings are kept, half a ton of skunk was seized at the Božaj border crossing. With this latter news, Dritan Abazović wished a good day to Montenegro on Facebook and ended with the exclamation: "Let's move on, the hand of justice does not stop!" Following all marketing rules, he added the government's slogan "On the right track!" to that statement.
However, under the road, more precisely Njegoševa Street in Podgorica, the mafia has been digging its way, an underground tunnel thirty meters long, for the past month or so. The underground "miners" connected the rented apartment in the basement of the building in Njegoševa street and the depot of the High Court. The tunnel was discovered on Monday, September 11, and, if we include the elements of the goatherd in the whole story, the rheumatic pains of an employee and the draft coming from the depot helped the officials to determine that some objects had been searched. The police was informed about this fact. During the investigation, however, no tunnel was discovered. The opening behind the filing cabinet was discovered by court officials after they began taking stock of the cases, given the apparent unauthorized entry into the depot.
We are talking about a place where there are almost 100.000 objects, evidentiary material from numerous criminal proceedings, trial materials and several hundred pieces of weapons. The entire event quickly reached the media. President of the High Court Boris Savić said in his first statement that "almost nothing is missing", and then followed a real marketing charade that could be called - the Government's trip to the scene of the crime.
The Ministers of Justice and Police, led by Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, with the support of the head of the Police Administration, Nikola Terzić, slipped under the tape that restricts access to the investigation site and, after a quick, expert inspection, announced to the public that several items, including weapons, were missing. After the investigation, the Basic Prosecutor's Office announced that it still did not know what was missing, but announced that it would check the basis for the visit of the Prime Minister and his associates. Abazović later clarified that he received permission for the tour from the president of the court, Boris Savić. Thus, tourist jargon entered the topic of the chronicle and caused a real flood of memes on social networks. And the writer Balša Brković, alluding to the "Hand of Justice", the name of one of the ferries on the Lepetane-Kamenari line, proposed a new name for the ferry - "Rupa Pravde".
POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF SPECULATION
The speculations that followed depended primarily on the source from which they originated. Speculations ranged from the fact that the purpose of the burglary was to steal items from investigations related to the Montenegrin Kavčan clan, through those that indicated the organization of an escape or a possible murder, to Abazović's claim that they wanted to compromise the evidence from the case of the murder of the editor of the Podgorica dailies. newspaper "Dan" by Duško Jovanović. And indeed, speculation as speculation can go on and on. Let's say, was the burglary and tunneling just a cover for something that had already happened and that just needed to be masked? Was part of the seized drugs taken from the depot that was not there - has anyone measured it or is it yet to be done? Why not, doesn't the Montenegrin public already have the experience of confiscated cigarettes that are suspected of not being all burned and for which the former director of the Revenue and Customs Administration, Rada Milošević, is under investigation? These speculations, each individually, have their own political dimension and a precise political goal - either drawing attention or pointing out certain personalities, whether they belong to the underground or the political milieu.
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In any case, what is most fascinating about the whole event is the fact that the tunnel was dug for more than a month in the very center of the city, where in a diameter of three hundred meters there are the buildings of the Assembly, the Government, the President, the premises of the High, Supreme and Constitutional Courts. This indicates a complete failure of all security services and of course the procedures for securing important state institutions. And let's go back to the beginning of the text at this point. This very fact supports the thesis that the mafia conquered the entire marketing team of the Government of Montenegro.
The highlight of this entire action spectacle is the statement of the Minister of Police, Filip Adžić, who accused the Montenegrin media of revealing the details of the investigation, alluding to the fact that the disclosure of data complicates and slows down the course of the investigation. Classic thesis replacement. The basic question is how that data got to the media, isn't it just another proof of the fact that the police and security services are extremely porous and corruptible, in one way or another.
In order to complete the picture, it is not without significance to note that in the midst of the tunnel affair, the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SST) of Montenegro filed an indictment against 21 people on suspicion of belonging to the "police drug cartel". Among the persons suspected of several crimes are the leader of the Kavački clan, Radoje Zvicer, Petar Lazović, who was a high-ranking official of the ANB, the current president of the municipality of Budva, Milo Božović, and the policeman Ljubo Milović, who is on the run. This speaks best, of course if the suspicions from the indictment are proven, how wide is the space in which crime has penetrated into all the structures of the Montenegrin state. This also shows that the tunnel is just one of the methods used by the mafia in order to protect its own interests and acquired positions.
MUKE AFTER SPAJIĆ
And while the prime minister struggles with the fight against organized crime in his technical mandate, the mandate holder Milojko Spajić has spent exactly half of the time that the Constitution leaves for him as the deadline in which he must propose the composition of the Government. The incumbent who started his journey to the new cabinet with the ambitious goal of obtaining a three-thirds majority in the parliament today is far from a reliable simple majority, primarily thanks to his own rashness and, above all, underestimating his political partners, including his opponents. The way in which he conducted discussions about the possible distribution of ministerial chairs, that is, the fact that he offered the same positions to different interlocutors, exposed him and made him certainly an unreliable negotiator.
Self-control and a mathematical mind are the most important qualities in politics. It is easy to spew demagoguery, populism, self-encouragement, build the performance of the winner and the dominant factor in political decision-making from the pulpits. When you get off the stage, errors out of control and the lack of practical application of even elementary mathematical combinations usually lead you to a dead end, from which you can only get out by deciding to sprinkle ashes on your head and return to the main intersection. If you are able to do that, there is still a place for you in politics.
The hasty statement that followed immediately before the extraordinary parliamentary elections, with which the president eliminated the Civic Movement URA as a future constituent of the government, now hangs over his head like the sword of Damocles that can only cut the knot in which the negotiations on the composition of the new government have become entangled. That statement was motivated by the spin affair in which the arrested "cryptocurrency king" Do Kwon is associated with Spajić. Abazović, of course, tried to profit politically by emphasizing the whole affair, but that is nothing unusual for the American style of campaigning, which the first man of the URA simply adores. Both of them suffer the consequences of such statements today. But this is not the first case that personal tensions and fights directly affected important events in Montenegrin political life.
It was not so long ago that the conflict between the Democrats and GP Ur was so intense that it affected the instability and fall of both post-Depees governments. But, as everything is possible in politics, Bečić and Abazović were on the same list in the last elections. This could be a good lesson for Spajić, especially due to the fact that he has already made enemies in PZBCG, that is, in Andrija Mandić and Milan Knežević, rejecting them from the combination for the composition of the Government as a so-called pro-Serbian, i.e. pro-Russian political entity.
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Why is this important? First of all, due to the fact that the Europe Now Movement (PES) did not achieve success in the elections announced by public opinion surveys; second - that they have obligations towards members of local parties and associations who were on their list; and perhaps most importantly - because the leadership tension between the President of the State, Jakov Milatović, and the representative who heads the PES is intensifying. All of these are factors that influence the beginning of the end of the great wave on which the Europe Movement has now reached the parliament, but also in the position to occupy the two most important positions in Montenegro. If Spajić does not propose a government in the next month and a half, new elections are more realistic than the option of the President of Montenegro offering the mandate to someone else. In the new elections, PES would certainly not retain the current support and could face the proverb - the greater the upswing, the more painful the fall.
Aleksa Bečić's Democrats rejected the possibility of accepting any option in which the future government would be decided by anyone belonging to the political corps of the Democratic Party of Socialists. They will not support such a government, just as they will not agree to the eventual election of Aleksa Bečić as President of the Assembly, if the votes of someone from the DPS coalition are decisive for that. After the position formulated in this way, the conclusion of the PES followed that this is the principle they adhere to from the very beginning of the discussion about the parliamentary majority that would support the composition of the new government. The truth is, however, that Spajić was given an ace up his sleeve to secure support for his cabinet in this way.
AND THE ELECTIONS ARE GOING ON
The current picture of the Montenegrin reality would not be complete without one more bizarre detail. It's been a year since local elections started in Šavnik. After the first attempt, eight more followed and all failed. The President of the State Election Commission of Montenegro, Nikola Mugoša, assessed it as a precedent in the electoral system of Montenegro. Simply, due to the lack of competence of the State Election Commission, the local elections in this Montenegrin municipality cannot be carried out to the end.
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