PODGORICA, Montenegro, April 2 — Montenegrins head to the polls today to elect their next president in a vote that could see a young upstart unseat incumbent Milo Djukanovic, who...
PODGORICA, Montenegro, April 2 — Montenegrins head to the polls today to elect their next president in a vote that could see a young upstart unseat incumbent Milo Djukanovic, who has dominated the country’s political scene for decades.
Polls will open at 7:00 am local time and close at 8:00pm. Unofficial results are expected late Sunday evening. “Milatovic offers a different vision, economic prosperity and cooperation,” Dragan Vujacic, a 66-year-old radio and TV presenter, toldThe DPS has been hit by repeated setbacks since the party suffered their first major defeat in the 2020 parliamentary elections.
But as Serbia increasingly became an international pariah, Djukanovic pivoted West, broke ties with Belgrade and helped usher in Montenegro’s independence in 2006. “Here we have a man who has been in power for thirty years, a man who is the personification of a classic dictatorship, a classic abuse of power, the man who has allowed corruption and crime to flourish,” Mladen Vukovic, a physician in Podgorica, toldAhead of today’s vote, Djukanovic has repeatedly questioned whether Milatovic, 36, and his Europe Now party can secure a European future for Montenegro, while accusing him of being vulnerable to Serbian influence.
But it has been no easy task, with roughly a third of Montenegro’s population of 620,000 identifying as Serbs.
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