The Parliament of Montenegro approved the first free government in the modern history of the country
After three days of heated discussions between nationalists and a coalition of liberals, leftists and Serbian parties, the Montenegrin parliament approved the composition of the government by a majority vote.
Supporters of the president, a dictator who has ruled the country since 1991, unsuccessfully tried to blame Montenegro Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic for Serbizing the country.
“This government may be undesirable and criticized, but I have not counted the blood shares of its participants, and I will not,” Krivokapic said, responding to attacks by nationalists from the Democratic Party of Socialists. – I didn’t ask any of the ministers whether he was a Serb or a Montenegrin... This is our Montenegro! Let's not be divided anymore! We all must build a better future based on talent and knowledge. We have natural resources, but our greatest wealth is our people, who have enormous potential.”
In the end, 41 deputies voted in favor of the new government, 28 voted against, and one abstained. Krivokapić formed his cabinet so that it included only one party representative: Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, the leader of the URA Civic Movement, an Albanian who had promised the previous day to jail the most controversial members of Djukanović's party. The remaining twelve ministers are not affiliated with any party.
“Montenegro received a free government for the first time!” – many local media published such headlines.
Let us recall that on August 30 of this year, parliamentary elections were held in Montenegro, in which for the first time since 1991, the coalition opposing the corrupt nationalist Milo Djukanovic, advocating the normalization of relations with Serbia and Russia, and against the persecution of the Serbian Orthodox Church, won.
The Montenegrin Parliament approved the first free government in the country's modern history.