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THE COUNTRY: SERVICE TO CITIZENS<br />

ELECTIONS IN MONTENEGRO<br />

Lack of confidence in<br />

electoral process<br />

Since the recovery of independence, five national elections have been<br />

held in Montenegro: three parliamentary elections and two presidential<br />

elections.<br />

Parliamentary elections 2006<br />

Twelve electoral lists participated in the first parliamentary elections held after the recovery of independence,<br />

on September 10, 2006. Eight electoral lists managed to win a sufficient number of votes<br />

to enter the parliament. A total of 345,757 voters voted.<br />

Electoral list<br />

Number<br />

of votes<br />

Number of<br />

mandates<br />

COALITION FOR EUROPEAN MONTENEGRO – MILO ĐUKANOVIĆ 164,737 41<br />

SERBIAN LIST – ANDRIJA MANDIĆ 49,730 12<br />

SNP-NS-DSS-COALITION: SOCIALISTS PEOPLE’S PARTY-PEOPLE’S PARTY- 47,683 11<br />

DEMOCRATIC SERBIAN PARTY<br />

MOVEMENT FOR CHANGES – NEBOJŠA MEDOJEVIĆ 44,483 11<br />

„LIBERALS AND BOSNIAK PARTY – RIGHT IN THE PAST, RIGHT FOR THE<br />

FUTURE“ MIODRAG MIKO ŽIVKOVIĆ<br />

12,748 3<br />

DUA – FERHAT DINOŠA 3,693 1<br />

COALITION DEMOCRATIC UNION IN MONTENEGRO – DEMOCRATIC PROSPER-<br />

ITY PARTY, MEHMET BARDHI<br />

4,373 1<br />

„ALBANIAN ALTERNATIVE“ 2,656 1<br />

The OSCE / ODIHR mission assessed that the election process mainly took place in line with the commitments<br />

undertaken by the OSCE and other international standards for democratic elections, although<br />

a number of repeating challenges is still to be responded to. The Centre for Democratic<br />

Transition (CDT) criticized the lack of readiness of the authorities to incorporate good practices and<br />

procedures determined in the referendum on independence into the electoral legislation.<br />

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