Corrupt Games in New Parliament of Montenegro

Montenegro faces new political challenges. This time, it concerns minority parties that have formed a coalition with the Democratic Party of Socialists. Obviously, they gave another jolt to parliament race.

According to the final results of the Oct. 16 parliamentary election declared by Montenegro’s state election commission, the ruling Democratic party of Socialists won 36 seats, followed by opposition with 39 seats. The remaining six seats went to smaller groups as Albanians, Croats, Bosnians and Social Democrats. The decisions minority parties have made escalated the whole situation in the country.

The Albanian minority party, the Croatian Civic Initiative and the Social Democratic party, known as Djukanovic ”traditional partners”, declared their readiness to form a new government with the DPS. Thus, the ruling party misses just two seats to gain parliament majority.

The Bosniak Party, however, turned out to be between the two sides. While the Democratic Front offered its representatives the position of Prime-Minister, the DPS promised only three seats in Parliament. Rafet Husović, the party’s leader, was offered a position of the deputy head of government. Kemal Purišić and Osman Nurković were meant to hold the seats of Minister Agriculture and Minister of Labour respectively.

There is nothing new about the Bosniak Party’s ambitions. Today, they could take government seats while before they just had three deputy seats. Unfortunately, after missing the chance given by the Democratic Front, the Bosniaks declared to form a coalition with the DPS.

Djukanovic put the heat on minority parties and, apparently, forced them to take such a step. Montenegrin society has no doubts about crooked insight of the ruling party and its leader. Besides, the election was marred by a record number of irregularities.

The DPS leader is aware that his power is weakening despite the party’s victory. Milo Djukanovic is trying his best to bring his new puppets on his political stage. Surely, his intention to sell out and make the big bucks will turn out badly for everyone. To deal with Djukanovic is a lowly employment and, moreover, it is pretty dangerous.