The regular local elections in Nikšić will be held on March 14 this year after the president of the state Milo Đukanović (DPS) announced them yesterday.
In the announcement from his cabinet, apart from the decision, it is also stated that it enters into force on the day it is passed, and will be published in the "Official Gazette of Montenegro"' and its part - municipal regulations.
The state election commission and municipal election commissions are obliged, within 72 hours from the day of the decision to call the election, to determine and publish the election calendar of all the deadlines for the implementation of election actions provided for by the election legislation.
The local government in Nikšić is exercised by the Democratic Party of Socialists and Social Democrats of Montenegro, after the opposition boycotted going to the polls in 2017. This was after the decision of the opposition at the state level at the time to boycott the work of the Parliament of Montenegro, which they have largely changed in the meantime. In March, the DPS will try to restore the shaken trust, and in this, as the interlocutors of "Vijesti" previously claimed, they should be helped by Milutin Simović, who was appointed as the coordinator of the DPS for the municipality of Nikšić in December 2015 and in March this year. In the meantime, that high-ranking DPS official was elected as the president of Nikšić Municipality and will hold that position until March.
2017 people took part in the local elections in 26.322. citizen. The DPS won 21.104 votes, and the Social Democrats (SD) 2.324, while there were 2.894 invalid ballots. In the parliamentary elections in August this year, 48.772 voters exercised their right to vote. The ruling DPS-SD coalition won 19.588 votes: DPS had more than 2.500 votes less than in the local elections (18.542), while SD had half as many votes as in 2017.
The three coalitions, "For the future of Montenegro", "Peace is our nation" and "Black on white", had 7.351 more votes than DPS and SD together, that is, almost 8.400 more than DPS...
Simović succeeded Veselin Grbović, who retired. The interlocutors of Vijesta said earlier that the election of Simović is a sign that DPS is entering preparation for difficult upcoming local elections in that city and that he cannot influence the increase in the party's rating and "can neither bring Nikšić nor DPS any good".
Although a native of Nikšić, Simović lived in Podgorica immediately before the election, and "moved" back before voting for mayor.
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