2016 Montenegrin Parliamentary Election Sunday Oct 16,2016

The 2016 Montenegrin Parliamentary Election is scheduled to be held on Sunday Oct 16,2016 to elect 81 members of the parliament

Results


The preliminary vote count by the pollsters CEMI suggested the DPS would win 36 seats in the 81-seat parliament, five short of an absolute majority.


With over 95 percent of votes counted, pollsters CEMI forecast that the Democratic Forum (DF), an opposition alliance of pro-Western parties and others that want stronger ties with traditional allies in Serbia and Russia, would have 18 seats.

Together with all other opposition parties and alliances, it could garner as many as 42 seats. Party leaders from both the DPS and the opposition claimed victory, although DPS is better-placed to form a government.


Official results by the state election authority were expected in the coming days.



The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) secured the most votes in Montenegro's parliamentary election, but with pollsters saying it could not secure a majority, pro-Western Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic sought a coalition to extend his quarter of a century in power.

Djukanovic, 54, said the election on Sunday was a historic choice between closer ties with NATO or with Russia, but voters were divided.

The outcome leaves Montenegro, a former Yugoslav republic of 620,000 people, deeply divided, with its long-serving leader scrambling to build a majority in a fractious parliament.