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Montenegro
Region: Europe

Description of government structure:

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

Description of electoral system:

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).