The preliminary results of the local elections in Montenegro show that the opposition Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) achieved the best result, while the largest decline was recorded by the coalition of Prime Minister Milojko Spajić's Movement Europe Now (PES) and Democratic Montenegro (Democrats) of Deputy Prime Minister Aleksa Bečić.
Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) she won 19 mandates in the elections in Podgorica, while the Europe Now Movement (PES) is the prime minister Milojko Spajić and Democratic Montenegro (Democrats) of Deputy Prime Minister Aleksa Bečić won 14 mandates, according to the preliminary results of the Center for Democratic Transition, writes N1.
Who else enters the Podgorica parliament
The Movement for Podgorica (PzPG), which is informally led by President Jakov Milatović, the Civic Movement (GP) URA of former Prime Minister Dritan Abazović and the Movement for Change (PzP) of Nebojša Medojević won six mandates.
The pro-Serbian coalition gathered around the New Serbian Democracy (NOVA) of Parliament Speaker Andrija Mandić won 13 mandates.
The coalition of the Social Democrats and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which won three mandates, will also enter the parliament. The Party of the European Process, which is translated by the former prime minister and vice-president of DPS, Duško Marković, has passed the census and will have two mandates, as will Srđan Perić's Turnaround, which will also have two mandates.
Significant drop in turnout
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The CDT Center for Democratic Transition announced that, according to their data, the final turnout in Podgorica was 56,34 percent. If the turnout is compared to the previous elections held in 2022, it is significantly lower, as it was around 69 percent then.
Political analyst Daliborka Uljarević stated that the result of the DPS was higher than expected.
"They have the right to celebrate, but it opens up what the possibilities of the coalition are and how it can be valorized and how it can take over power in Podgorica," she said on TV E from Pogorica.
She said that their result was all the more significant because they performed from the position of the opposition, and added that the biggest losers were PES and the Democrats.
Irregularities and interference by Serbia
The head of the DPS parliamentary club, Andrija Nikolić, from the party's election headquarters in the capital, said that they recorded a large number of irregularities during the election day in Podgorica and Kotor.
"The largest number of complaints refers to voters who illegally exercised their right to vote." We recorded all of that," Nikolić pointed out.
He added that one indicator is that 14.000 more people entered Montenegro compared to the same weekend last year.
"We will inform the European Commission." This is not a problem of Montenegro, but of the region. The neighboring country is trying to influence the elections in Montenegro," said Nikolić, alluding to Serbia.
The Regional Academy for the Development of Democracy (ADD) accused the regime in Serbia of "dangerously interfering" in local elections in neighboring Montenegro, in Podgorica and in Kotor, and stated that activists of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) from Serbia were spotted there in jeeps, as and buses with voters with double voting rights from Serbia.
"It is about the migration of fake voters with double voting rights from Serbia. Apart from illegal voters from Serbia, activists of Vučić's SNS before and during election day put pressure on voters in Podgorica and Kotor. This act represents a direct interference in the electoral process in Montenegro and the continuation of Vučić's aggressive policy towards the neighbors", stated in a statement from ADD.
Kotor - 10.000 voters came out
On the same day, elections were also held in Kotor, where 10.104 citizens, or 54,68 percent of those registered in the voter's list, voted, the Municipal Election Commission (MEC) announced.
MEC president Anka Perović told the MINA agency that they do not expect preliminary results before 22 p.m.
12 lists participated in the elections in Kotor.
18.498 citizens had the right to vote in that city.
Source: N1
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