Hina: Serbian iconography overshadowed the conciliatory rhetoric of the winner of the elections in Montenegro

The Serbian tricolors and the celebration of the supporters of the new President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović, with three fingers raised high, succeeded on Sunday evening in overshadowing his conciliatory and pro-European speech that he gave after the announcement of the results of the presidential elections, according to the Croatian agency Hina.
While Milatović addressed his supporters saying that he would be the president of all the citizens of Montenegro, and that he would lead that country towards the EU, behind him stood all the leaders of the pro-Serbian coalition that defeated Milo Đukanović in the parliamentary elections in 2020. Among them were Andrija Mandić - Chetnik duke and leader of the pro-Serbian and pro-Russian Democratic Front, Dritan Abazović - prime minister in a technical mandate, and Aleksa Bečić - former president of the parliament and leader of Democratic Montenegro, the center party, writes Hina in a report from Podgorica.
Many were surprised by the presence of Zdravko Krivokapić, the prime minister of the first government formed after Đukanović's defeat in the 2020 elections, who recently announced that he was retiring from the political scene. It was in his government, whose formation was most influenced by the Serbian Orthodox Church, that Jakov Milatović was Minister of Economy and thus took his first political steps, the agency adds.
At the same time, according to Hina, on the streets of most Montenegrin cities, Milatović's supporters celebrated his victory waving Serbian tricolors and holding up three fingers.
Hina reminds that Montenegrins will soon go to the polls again because extraordinary parliamentary elections are scheduled for June 11, and reports the assessments of analysts in Podgorica that holding them immediately after the presidential elections is best suited to Milatović's Europe Now Movement, which has not yet entered parliament.
Milatović's "Europe Now" is a growing political force on the Montenegrin political scene, which in November won power in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, where a third of the country's population lives.
She bases her program on economic rhetoric and the decision of the government in which Milatović was Minister of Economy to raise the minimum wage in Montenegro from 220 to 450 euros.
Critics accuse them of populism and believe that their economic policy is not sustainable, but that it is based on the credit debts of the state of Montenegro, concludes Hina in the report on the second round of presidential elections in Montenegro.
M. J.