The former president of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, violated the provisions of the law on public officials because he did not declare a valuable collection of watches. ASK estimates that the collection is worth around 200.000 euros and rejects claims that the watches were gifts from earlier years.
Five years have passed since the election on August 30, 2020, when the first change of government in modern Montenegro took place after three decades. For many, it was a historical moment that opened up the space for the change of government, but the interlocutors of "Vremen" estimate that the expected fundamental changes have not yet come.
It is incomprehensible and absolutely unacceptable to change the narrative about the aggressor and the victim and to place the burden of responsibility for the length of the war and its consequences on Ukraine, said former President of Montenegro Milo Djukanović
Further fragmentation of the Montenegrin political scene is certain, and negotiations, not only about the formation but also about the functioning of the government, are becoming more and more complex. It is a direct consequence of the disproportion between the coalition capacity of political subjects and what we could call "blackmail capacity". And it has nothing to do with the program goals of any of the participants in the post-election negotiations
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić commented on the video on which Milo Đukanović sang "we are stronger than Serbia" after the local elections in Podgorica.
The former President of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović, answered in the Special State Prosecutor's Office, as a witness, the prosecutor's questions about his knowledge that an assassination attempt was allegedly being prepared against him.
The higher court in Podgorica found that the accused did not illegally bring weapons into Montenegro with the aim of seizing the parliament and arresting or liquidating the then prime minister, Milo Đukanović. Among those released are the retired General of the Gendarmerie of Serbia Bratislav Dikić and seven other citizens of Serbia
Živković told Antena M that it is not the first time that political competition announces that Đukanović should be arrested
The Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica opened a case regarding the publication of an interview in which the former President of Montenegro Milo Đukanović allegedly threatens blood revenge. The interview has caused a series of stormy reactions in recent days, and some have assessed that it is an attempt to intimidate the chief special prosecutor, Vladimir Novović.
In the internal party elections held on Sunday, January 28, the current acting Danijel Živković was elected as the president of the Montenegrin DPS
The leaders of the Europe Movement now represent a generation of new, desirable personalities on the political scene for whom politics is not life itself. And fundamentally, they received largely blank support, because the others spent theirs heavily. The fact is, however, that hopeful support is lost the fastest
After three decades, Milo Đukanović lost the last lever of power. However, the support that Jakov Milatović received from almost all constituents of the loose and often conflicted parliamentary majority will not exist after the presidential elections. It will be an open conflict of allies with often diametrically opposed political, ideological and all other interests. Already in these days, everyone will return to seriously questioning how much the final victory over Đukanović harmed everyone individually.
Milo Đukanović implemented the resignation he announced at the end of March today. He was the head of the Democratic Party of Socialists since 1998. his withdrawal was also on the agenda at the party congress in 2021, but then it was concluded that it was not the time for it
Equating the importance of the past presidential elections with the 2006 referendum, when more than 55 percent of citizens supported the independence of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović certainly did not expect that 60 percent of Montenegrins would show yesterday that they do not share the same vision of an independent state with the previous president. More precisely, that they do not accept to continue to be the subject of manipulations and a means of division. Throwing Jakov Milatović, who joined politics only two years ago, into the foreground, the citizens did not only punish Đukanović, but also all those who have been shaping the Montenegrin political environment for decades.
The Center for Monitoring and Research (CeMI) has published projections of the results of the presidential elections in Montenegro. The results show a convincing victory for Jakov Milatović
There are two names on the ballot: Milo Đukanović and Jakov Milatović. Election math says that every vote will count. In a country of 600 inhabitants, the votes of minority parties and the diaspora could be the tipping point
On Sunday, 542.154 voters will be able to vote for one of the two presidential candidates, Milo Đukanović or Jakov Milatović. It is expected that the diaspora will have a big influence on the result. The Metropolitanate of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro supported Milatović. Vučić says that he does not interfere
The results of the first round confront Đukanović with a dramatic fact for him - that the trend of falling trust in the Democratic Party of Socialists continues, but also that his popularity is lower than that enjoyed by the party he leads. The success of Jakov Milatović and the continued growth of the popularity of the Europe Movement cannot now be interpreted only by what analysts call "strategic overflow of votes".
Andrija Mandić is in third place, according to the first projections of the Center for Monitoring and Research (CeMI). The second round of elections, after which it will be known whether Milo Đukanović will continue to be the president of Montenegro, will take place on April 2.
This is not just a presidential election. These are elections whose percentages will dominantly decide the distribution of influence in the upcoming parliamentary elections, certainly also in the further development of events related to the technical government of Dritan Abazović and the consequences of the failure of the mandate of Miodrag Lekić. They will be the key to solving the mutual relations between the political groups that stand against the Democratic Party of Socialists
The situation in Montenegro is mostly similar to "Cases" by Danilo Harms. It could be called an applied political absurdity in which judges of the Constitutional Court are drawn out of a hat, and parliamentary majorities disappear as if in some magic trick.
Due to the institutional vacuum, the President of Montenegro assessed that there is a need to hire mediators from the EU. If such engagement were to occur, it would not be the first time that the European Union resolves political crises in the countries of the Western Balkans. The most successful EU was in North Macedonia
Possible extraordinary elections would not bring a solution that would mean an easy way out of the current situation. Why? The DPS would not be able to win a majority to form a new government, and the bloc against the party of Milo Đukanović (pictured) would once again find itself in total imbalance.
Representatives of the winning coalitions in the August 2020 parliamentary elections claim that they have a mandate supported by the majority in parliament, while Milo Đukanović does not want to entrust Miodrag Lekić with the mandate to form the Government. In DF, they consider it "some kind of coup d'état". Interpretations of the Constitution are different
The most certain candidate for the mandate for the composition of the new Government of Montenegro is Miodrag Lekić, the president of Demos. Montenegrin, pro-Serbian orientation, politician and diplomat with decades of experience. The matter is not over, however, because the winning parties of the 2020 elections will have to achieve unity on everything, or there will be no agreement.
In an interview with RSE, the President of Montenegro said that he doubts the pro-European ambitions of Aleksandar Vučić, because he promotes a policy according to which the state of Serbia should be the "patron of Serbs in other countries", and that this is not European policy, but the policy we had in the 1990s. year led to war
Jovan Vukotić was considered to be the leader of the škaljars and he lived on a farm. So far, he has survived at least three attempts at liquidation, and his father and godfather were also killed. His head was blackmailed, they say, at a million euros
