Expert: “After the change of power, Montenegro will move even further away from Russia”
Albanian Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic, who initiated the resignation of the Montenegrin government, will not be able to form the so-called "minority government"
Ekaterina Entina, professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and head of the Department of Black Sea-Mediterranean Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Balkan expert and presenter Oleg Bondarenko about this on the air of Moscow Speaks.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, during a conversation with a guest on the broadcast, the author and host of the program “THE BUSINESS OF PRINCIPLE” Oleg Bondarenko recalled that Montenegro, under the recently resigned ex-Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic, did not abandon anti-Russian sanctions and even, under the pretext of anti-Covid restrictions, canceled direct flights from Moscow.
The Balkanist asked the invited expert what to expect from the next change of power in this Balkan country.
“In any case, we must expect political instability in Montenegro,” noted Ekaterina Entina. – Because even if a coalition government is formed by Dritan Abazovic... I really don’t like the name they gave it – Government of National Minorities...
But in Montenegro there is formally no ethnic majority, therefore, from the point of view of political and social justice, this is not a very correct name. I use the name “Coalition of Small Parties” in relation to them, because from a content point of view it completely hits the mark, since they are going to assemble a coalition of small parties without Milo Djukanovic’s party and the Democratic Front, which is the largest pro-Russian party.
Even if they succeed, not a single coalition of many small parties in the Balkans has shown a stable result. Because small parties only increase the blackmail potential of each of those present - and nothing more. And we expect that Moscow will disappear more and more from the discourse of Montenegro in any positive way, if not disappear altogether.”
At the same time, the professor suggested that the country will most likely face early parliamentary elections, since Abazovich will not even be able to create such a cabinet.
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