The candidate for the president of the Europe Now Movement, Jakov Milatović, convincingly won the second round of the presidential elections, preliminary results show.
According to the preliminary results of the Center for Monitoring and Research (CeMI), which published the final projection, Milatović won 60 percent of the votes, and the candidate of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Milo Đukanović 40 percent.
The State Election Commission announced that 69,33 percent of voters, or 375.853 people, voted in the second round.
The Center for Democratic Transition (CDT) published the final projection, according to which Milatović won 58,9 percent of the vote, and Đukanović 41,1.
The turnout, according to CeMI data, was 70,4 percent, and according to CDT, 70,7 percent.
Biography of Milatović
Milatović was born in Podgorica on December 7, 1986. He is married to Milena and has three children – daughters Sara and Ana, and son David.
He finished primary, secondary school and university in Podgorica.
As a US government scholarship holder, he spent one study year at Illinois State University.
After that, he studied for one semester at the University of Economics and Business in Vienna (WU Wien), this time as a scholarship holder of the Government of Austria. The European Commission enabled him to spend one study year at the University of Rome (La Sapienza). As a scholarship holder of the British government, he earned a master's degree in economics at Oxford University.
In addition to formal education, Milatović also attended programs organized by the United Nations in New York, the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Embassy of Montenegro in Rome and the Office for International Cooperation of the Faculty of Economics in Podgorica.
In addition, he passed the "Oxbridge Academic" program at Oxford, and numerous programs of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in London, the London School of Economics (LCE) and others.
He also trained at the University of Peking, the Leadership Academy of Stanford University and the University of Belgrade.
He has won numerous awards, speaks English, Italian and Spanish.
He worked in the banking sector in the country and abroad, he was part of the economic and political analysis team at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), he dealt with the economic analysis of the region of Southeast Europe, and then the analysis of the countries of the Western Balkans.
From 2018 to 2020, he worked in Bucharest as the EBRD's chief economic analyst for Romania, Croatia, Slovenia and Bulgaria.
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