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Montenegro's ruling party wins absolute majority - reports

Mon, Mar 30 2009 12:25 CET byClive Leviev-Sawyer 1109 Views 1 Comment
Montenegro's ruling party wins absolute majority - reports

EXULTING: Montenegro's prime minister Milo Djukanovic addresses supporters after the ruling coalition claimed victory in parliamentary elections on March 29 2009.

Montenegro prime minister Milo Djukanovic led his For European Montenegro coalition to an absolute majority victory in the country's early parliamentary elections on March 29 2009, according to local and international media reports.

Speaking soon after polls closed, Djukanovic said: "Voters in these elections obviously gave their vote for a secure life in Montenegro, for the dependable economic and democratic prosperity of Montenegro and a secure European future for our state".

"We will do our best to quickly create a responsible and competent government that will... reliably bring economic and democratic reforms and get Montenegro closer to its European and Euro-Atlantic goals very fast," he said.

Radio Television Montenegro said that Djukanovic's coalition claimed an absolute majority and would have about 47 to 49 seats in the 81-seat parliament.

News website B92 said that the Socialist National Party took 15, the New Serb Democracy took eight and the Movement for Change received five seats.

One mandate each was won by all four Albanian parties - Forca, the Democratic Union of Albanians, the Albanian Coalition of Perspective and the Albanian List.

The leader of the oppostion Serbian National List Momcilo Vuksanovic told Vijesti newspaper said that that Djukanovic's coalition had achieved a convincing victory in illegitimate elections.

The leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement Nabojsa Medojevic said that citizens had given "the same captain the right to lead the ship towards the iceberg".

Leader of the Movement for Change Nebojsa Medojevic thanked all "honourable and fair people" who voted for his party in the March 29 elections. "It became obvious that 20 years after the wall of the Berlin Wall, you must have courage in order to vote for a political party which does not agree that Montenegro should a country in the hands of a group of highway robbers," Medojevic said.

B92 reported him as saying that his party had tried to explain that the route Montenegro was headed on was the wrong one, and that the country would collapse with bankruptcy of public finances, a loss of jobs and recession.

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Anonymous Peggy Tue, Mar 31 2009 11:47 CET
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How many Albanians and other Serb haters live in Montenegro?
Something stinks to high heaven here.

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