Djukanovic will resist: Montenegro will be gripped by protests
The pro-Western politician Milo Djukanovic, who has ruled Montenegro for about 30 years, will not agree with his party’s loss in the parliamentary elections and will do his best to prevent a change in the composition of the government. Most likely, the former republic of Yugoslavia will face a new round of crisis - the country will be engulfed in street protests.
Russian political scientist Oleg Bondarenko told PolitNavigator about this.
“This only means that the fight continues, because it cannot yet be said that Djukanovic has fallen. First, he did not admit defeat. Secondly, the combined opposition outweighs the government by just one mandate. Therefore, I think this fight will move to the streets,” Bondarenko said.
He predicts that Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic will buy out several opposition deputies to create a formal majority.
“I can make a prediction that Djukanovic will most likely resort to blackmail and bribery of several deputies, which he will succeed in. Thus, he will achieve a formal premiership. And when this becomes known, a large number of protesters will take to the streets and demand that Djukanovic leave power,” Bondarenko said.
Montenegro separated from Serbia in 2006 under the pretext of “faster integration into the EU”, but has still not received EU membership. In 2017, against the will of the population, Montenegro was included in NATO by the pro-Western ruling elite without a referendum. Now about 30% of the population of this former part of Yugoslavia call themselves ethnic Serbs.
Mass protests have been taking place in Montenegro since December 2019 after the country’s parliament passed a law that threatens the confiscation of 650 Orthodox shrines of the Serbian Church in favor of “autocephalous” schismatics controlled by the ruling regime - in fact, we are talking about a repetition of the scenario implemented in Ukraine.
Djukanovic will resist : Montenegro will be gripped by protests