2023-06-11 22:48:50
The European movement Europe Now! (PES), formed a year ago in Montenegrohas won this Sunday in its first participation in a general election by achieving the 25.5% of the votes, according to the first estimates not yet official.
The NGO CeMI (Center for Control and Investigations) points out that With this result, the PES would have 23 of the 81 seats in Parliamentfollowed by Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS)who governed without interruption between 1991 and 2020, which would achieve the 23,8% of the votes and 22 deputies.
CeMI has calculated this result sAccording to the scrutiny of 90% of the votes in a series of electoral collegesbut their data are estimates that will not become official until, at the earliest, this Monday.
The third force, with 15% and 13 deputies, would be the pro-Russian and pro-Serbian coalition ‘For the Future of Montenegro’which for years was with the DPS the protagonist of the deep polarization of society, with disputes over whether to follow the western path or maintain traditional Russian ties.
According to those data, the fourth is the recently formed pro-European coalition ‘Lo Valiente se Cuenta’, with 12.3% or 11 seats.
He Bosnian Party (BS) would have 6,8% of the votes or 6 deputies.
Several more parties would enter Parliament, according to these projections, among them those of the Albanian minorities, with 3 deputies, and the Croatian with one.
Some 540,000 citizens with the right to vote were called to the polls to elect the 81 deputies of the Montenegrin Parliament and put an end to three years of political instability in the country.
The instability has led to the fall of two governments since 2020, when the DPS lost power for the first time in three decades.
The campaign has focused on promises of salary and pension increases, social assistance, subsidized home purchases and large infrastructure projects, without detailing sources of funding.
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