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.
The president of the Europe now movement and former finance minister in the government of Zdravko Krivokapić, Milojko Spajić, was among the first to submit his candidacy for the March race for the president of the republic, but the State Election Commission (SEC) rejected it. The spears of the Montenegrin political elite broke on Spajić, who, with their joint efforts, threw the former minister out of the race for the position of head of state, in which he was reputed to be the most likely challenger to Milo Đukanović.
The presidential elections in Montenegro will be held on March 19 in order to comply with the legal deadline, and on religious holidays in April
