Montenegro’s president, who’s operating for reelection this weekend, dissolved parliament Thursday, paving the best way for an early parliamentary election within the close to future.
President Milo Djukanovic issued a decree dissolving parliament three months after Montenegro’s authorities fell in a no-confidence vote and after lawmakers did not elect a brand new one.
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Djukanovic is anticipated to set a date for the early election on Friday.
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic has dissolved parliament forward of a possible early election. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)
Montenegro is holding its presidential election on Sunday. Analysts predict the voting is not going to produce a transparent winner and that the pro-Western incumbent will face one in all a number of challengers in a runoff two weeks later.
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His opponents embody candidates from a number of events in a pro-Serbia alliance.
Djukanovic and his Democratic Party of Socialists led Montenegro to independence from Serbia in 2006 and into NATO in 2017. But confronted with corruption allegations, the get together misplaced a 2020 parliamentary election to an alliance of events searching for nearer relations with Serbia and Russia.
The ruling coalition has since been in disarray, making a political stalemate which stalled Montenegro’s bid to affix the European Union.
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