Country: Montenegro Official Name: Montenegro Election Type: Parliamentary Date: March 29, 2009 Source for election date

At stake in this election:

• 81 seats in the Assembly (Skupstina)

Description of government structure:

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

Description of electoral system:

• The President is elected by direct vote to serve a 5-year term.
• In the Assembly (Skupstina) 81 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.***

*** 4-year terms, nation-wide lists

Main parties in the electoral race:

• Coalition: Coalition for a European Montenegro / Koalicija za Evropsku Crnu Goru*
  Leader: Milo DJUKANOVIC (DPS)
  Seats won in this election: 48
  Seats won in last election: 42
• Coalition: Socialist People's Party of Montenegro / Socijalisti�ka narodna partija Crne Gore (SNP)**
  Leader: Srdjan MILIC
  Seats won in this election: 16
  Seats won in last election: 8
• Party: New Serbian Democracy / Nova srpska demokratija (NSD)***
  Leader: Andrija MANDIC
  Seats won in this election: 8
  Seats won in last election: 10
• Party: Movement for Change / Pokret za Promjene (PzP)
  Leader: Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC
  Seats won in this election: 5
  Seats won in last election: 11
• Party: People's Coalition: People's Party (NS) and Democratic Serbian Party (DSS) / Narodnjacka koalicija �€“ Narodna stranka i Demokratska srpska stranka*****
  Leader: Predrag POPOVIC (NS) Ranko KADIC (DSS)
  Seats won in this election: 0
  Seats won in last election: 3
• Coalition: Coalition For a Different Montenegro: Liberal Party (LPCG) and Democratic Center (DC) / Koalicija Liberalne partije i Demokratskog centra �€“ Za druga�iju Crnu Goru******
  Leader: Goran BATRICEVIC
  Seats won in this election: 0
  Seats won in last election: 2
• Party: Democratic Union of Albanians / Unioni Demokratik i Shqiptarëve (UDSH)
  Leader: Ferhat DINOSHA
  Seats won in this election: 1
  Seats won in last election: N/A
• Party: New Democratic Power FORCA / Forca e Re Demokratike
  Leader: Nazif CUNGU
  Seats won in this election: 1
  Seats won in last election: N/A
• Coalition: Albanian List - List Shquiptare - Democratic Alliance in Montenegro / Albanska lista - Lista Shqiptare - Demokratski savez u Crnoj Gori
  Leader: Mehmet BARDHI
  Seats won in this election: 1
  Seats won in last election: 2
• Coalition: Albanian Colition - "The Perspective" / Albanska koalicija - Perspektiva
  Leader: Amir HOLAJ
  Seats won in this election: 1
  Seats won in last election: N/A

* Coalition European Montenegro includes the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Croatian Civic Initiative, and Bosniak Party. Of the seats won in the last elections, the DPS and SDP won 41 and the Bosniak Party won 1.
** .
*** New Serbian Democracy is a new political party formed in January 2009 by the merger of the Serb People's Party (SNS) and People's Socialist Party of Montenegro (NSS), both of which ran on the Serbian List in the 2006 election.
***** The People's Party (NS) and Democratic Serbian Party (DSS) ran in a coalition with the Socialist People's Party (SNP) in 2006. Of the 11 seats the coalition won in 2006, 2 corresponded to NS and 1 to DSS.
****** The Liberal Party ran on a joint ticket with the Bosniak Party in 2006, from which it won 2 seats.

Population and number of registered voters:

• Population: 672,180 (July 2009 est.)
• Registered Voters: 498,305 (March 2009 )

Last Updated on 09/02/2008

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