Montenegrin parliamentary election, 2009

Montenegrin parliamentary election, 2009

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Party Leader % Seats ± ECG Milo Đukanović 51.94 48 +5 SNP Srđan Milić 16.83 16 +8 NOVA Andrija Mandić 9.2 8 New PZP Nebojša Medojević 6.0 5 -6 DUA Ferhat Dinoša 1.5 1 0 FORCA Nazif Cungu 0.9 1 +1 DSCG–AA Mehmet Bardhi 0.9 1 0 Perspective Vasilj Siništaj 0.8 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Milo Đukanović DPS Milo Đukanović DPS

Early parliamentary elections were held in Montenegro on 29 March 2009. In addition to elections for the unicameral Parliament of Montenegro, concurrent local elections were held in Nikšić and Budva, as well as municipal presidential elections in Herceg Novi and Tivat. The parliamentary elections were the eighth since the reintroduction of multi-party system in 1990, and the second since regaining full independence in 2006.

President Filip Vujanović the parliamentary elections on 27 January 2009, after the Parliament of Montenegro decided the previous day to shorten its term, although this decision was controversial. The Constitutional Act that proclaimed the new constitution of 2007 stipulated that elections had to be held by the end of 2009.

Application of electoral lists occurred from 16 February to 4 March 2009, and election silence began on 27 March 2009. The number of MPs being elected was uncertain, because the matter was never solved before the election was scheduled. Based on a count of one MP per six thousand eligible voters, the number of MPs should have been 82. However, the Constitution stipulated 81, as there were in the present outgoing session, and this was the number of MPs actually elected.

The pre-electoral process had been marked by several major incidents, such as the revocation of citizenship of Predrag Popović, president of the People's Party, the violation of the human right to work during the formation of the coalition treaty of Prime Minister Milo Đukanović's ruling coalition, which would make party affiliation a criterion for employment, and repeated protests by discontented workers pushed into poverty. Additionally, representative groups of Montenegro's minority communities unanimously declared the forthcoming elections illegal and contrary to constitutional protections granted to ethnic communities.