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Montenegrin parliamentary election Schedule 2016

Parliamentary elections will be held in Montenegro on 16 October 2016.

Elections in Montenegro are scheduled for October 16, with 17 coalitions and parties fighting for positions in the 81-seat parliament.

Montenegro parliamentary election Result 2016

Montenegro's pro-West ruling party has won the most votes in the small Balkan country's parliamentary election on Sunday, according to unofficial results, but without enough support to govern alone and assure the country's chartered course into NATO and other Western institutions.

The independent CeMI election monitoring group said that with 100 percent of the vote counted, the Democratic Party of Socialists won 41 percent, while two opposition parties — the Democratic Front and the Key Coalition have — 20 and 11 percent respectively. The monitoring group used its own vote count at the polling stations.

Basic facts

Government

Montenegro’s current president is Filip Vujanovic. At the April 2013 presidential election, incumbent Vujanovic narrowly beat the candidate of the united opposition, Miodrag Lekic. 

The current government of Montenegro was elected on December 4, 2012. The government is led by the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) with the support of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Social Democrats of Montenegro (SD), Positive Montenegro (PCG), the Bosniak Party (BS) and Croatian Civic Initiative (HCI). 

1. Prime Minister – Milo Djukanovic – DPS 
2. Deputy Prime Minister for Political System, Foreign and Internal Policy – Dusko Markovic – DPS
3. Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy and the Financial System – Vujica Lazovic – SD
4. Deputy Prime Minister for Regional Development – Rafet Husovic – BS
5. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture – Petar Ivanovic – DPS
6. Deputy Prime Minister – Milorad Vujovic – The Civic Movement URA
7. Deputy Prime Minister – Azra Jasavic – PCG
8. Minister of Justice – Zoran Pazin – DPS 
9. Minister of Interior – Goran Danilovic – DEMOS 
10. Minister of Defence – Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic – DPS
11. Minister of FINANCE – Rasko Konjevic – SDP
12. Minister of Education – Predrag Boskovic – DPS
13. Minister of Science – Sanja Vlahovic – DPS
14. Minister of Culture – PavleGoranovic  – DPS 
15. Minister of Economy – Vladimir Kavaric – DPS
16. Minister of Transport and Maritime Affairs – Ivan Brajovic – SD
17. Minister of Sustainable Development and Tourism – Branimir Gvozdenovic – DPS
18. Minister of Health – Budimir Segrt – DPS 
19. Minister for Human and Minority Rights – Suad Numanovic – DPS
20. Minister for Information Society and Telecommunications – Vujica Lazovic – SD 
21. Minister of Labour and Social Welfare – Boris Maric, The Civic Movement URA 
22. Minister without Portfolio – Marija Vucinovic – HGI

Parliament
The Montenegrin parliament is composed of 81 members, elected for a four-year term. The entire country is a single constituency and parties and coalitions must clear a three per cent vote threshold to enter parliament, apart from ethnic minority parties, which must clear a 0.8 per cent threshold . The current parliament was elected on October 14, 2012. 

Party    Leader    % of votes    Seats
Democratic Party of Socialists    Milo Djukanovic    45.60%    39
Democratic Front    Miodrag Lekic    22.82%    20
Socialist People’s Party (SNP)    Srdjan Milic    11.06%    9
Positive Montenegro    Darko Pajovic    8.24%    7
Bosniak Party (BS)    Rafet Husovic    4.17%    3
For Unity (ZJ)    Genci Nimanbegu    1.45%    1
Albanian Coalition    Fatmir Deka    1.05%    1
Croatian Civic Initiative (HGI)    Marija Vucinovic    0.40%    1
 

Elections

The last presidential elections were held in April 2013. The incumbent, Filip Vujanovic, won 51.21 per cent of the votes cast in the first round, beating the candidate of the united opposition, Miodrag Lekic, who won 48.79 per cent of the votes. 

The next presidential elections are due before April 2018. 

The last parliamentary elections were held on October 14, 2012. The coalition around the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) narrowly failed to win an absolute majority. 

The next regular parliamentary elections are due on October 16, 2016.

• Chief of State: President Filip VUJANOVIĆ
• Head of Government: Prime Minister Milo ĐJUKANVOIĆ
• Assembly: Montenegro has a unicameral Assembly (Skupstina) with 81 seats.

Description of electoral system of Montenegro :

• The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.
• Prime Minister is nominated by the president with the approval of the parliament.
• In the Assembly (Skupstina) 81 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.***

*** Montenegro has one nationwide constituency of 81 seats. Previously, five seats were reserved for a ‘special constituency’ in areas inhabited predominantly by the Albanian minority. These seats were abolished in an amendment to the election law in September, 2011. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method. There is a three percent threshold to gain representation. If none of the lists of a specific minority group achieve a threshold of 3 percent, a lower threshold of 0.7 percent is used (for Croatians, this becomes 0.4 percent).

Opinion polls