The structure of the constitutive convocation of the Assembly indicates uneven regional and gender representation, while the average age of MPs is 42, the Center for Civic Education (CGO) announced.
Nikola Obradović, project assistant at that NGO, stated that the largest number of MPs comes from Podgorica - as many as 36 out of 81 MPs, or 44,44 percent.
Nikšić follows with six, that is, Bar, Pljevlja and Ulcinj with four MPs each. There are three MPs each from four municipalities (Herceg Novi, Bijelo Polje, Plav and Rožaje), and there are also two MPs from four municipalities (Berane, Budva, Cetinje and Tuzi). Seven municipalities have one representative each (Danilovgrad, Kolašin, Kotor, Mojkovac, Plužine, Tivat, and Zeta). At the same time, the interests of five municipalities - Andrijevica, Gusinja, Petnjica, Šavnik and Žabljak - in the next four years will not be represented by any MP who comes directly from those municipalities.
Obradović points out that the CGE has previously pointed to the decline in the representation of women in the constitutive convocation of the Assembly. He reminds that, out of a total of 81 parliamentary seats, 17 belong to female deputies, that is, only 21 percent, while there are 64 deputies in the parliament. "The legal obligation to have a minimum of 30 percent of women on each electoral list did not have an adequate expression for mirroring that representation in the Assembly of Montenegro," he emphasizes.
The average age of female deputies and deputies of the constituent assembly of the Assembly is 42 years old, with the oldest deputy being 63 years old (from the coalition for the future of Montenegro), and the youngest 25 years old (from the list of the Europe now movement).
The professional profiles of women deputies and deputies of political subjects who won mandates in the Assembly are diverse.
In more detail, the election lists that won seats in the Assembly have the following structure:
The Bosniak party will be represented by 17 percent of women and 83 percent of men. The youngest deputy of that parliamentary group is 32 years old, and the oldest is 51 years old, while the average is 44 years old. The professional structure is dominated by economists and professors. Of the six deputies, two are from Rožaj, and one each from Bijelo Polje, Pljevlja, Plav and Podgorica.
The Croatian Civic Initiative (HGI) will have one representative in the Assembly, and that will be a man, a graduate of electrical engineering from Tivat, who is 42 years old.
The Socialist People's Party (SNP), which participated in the elections with DEMOS, will have two deputies - men, with an average age of 51. One of them is an athlete and the other an economist, and they come from Plužine and Beran.
The Albanian Alliance will have one male representative who is an economist by profession, from Ulcinj, and is 51 years old.
In the "Together" coalition, gathered around the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), which also includes the Social Democrats (SD), the Democratic Union of Albanians (DUA) and the Liberal Party (LP), 24 percent are women, while 76 percent are men, aged 41 of average age. The youngest MP is 25, and the oldest MP is 58. The majority of deputies of that coalition are from Podgorica (nine), followed by Nikšić, Ulcinj and Bar (two each), then Bijelo Polje, Budva, Cetinje, Kotor, Plav, Pljevlja (one each). The professional structure is diverse, with a slight advantage of economists, managers, professors and doctors.
The European Movement Parliamentary Club now consists of 25 percent women and 75 percent men, with an average age of 39 years, with the youngest MP being 25 years old, and also the youngest MP in this session of the Assembly, while the oldest MP is 61 years old. The majority of MPs of that political entity come from Podgorica (18), and they have one MP each from Bar, Bijelo Polje, Danilovgrad, Herceg Novi, Nikšić and Rožaj. In the professional structure, the majority are lawyers, followed by political scientists and doctors.
The coalition of Democratic Montenegro and the United Reform Action (URA) in the Parliament is represented by 18 percent of women and 82 percent of men, the average age of which is 41 years, with the youngest MP being 33 and the oldest 62. In the professional structure, there are mostly economists and lawyers. In the regional aspect, the largest number of MPs comes from Podgorica (five), and they have one MP each from Budva, Cetinje, Herceg Novi, Kolašin, Nikšić and Ulcinj.
The average age of MPs of the "For the Future of Montenegro" coalition, which consists of the New Serbian Democracy (NSD), the Democratic People's Party (DNP) and the Workers' Party (RP) is 47 years old, with the youngest MP being 31 years old and the oldest 63 years old. , and he is also the oldest deputy in the constituent assembly of the Assembly. That parliamentary club consists of 23 percent of women and 77 percent of men. The majority of MPs are from the capital Podgorica (three) and Pljevlja (two), followed by Bar, Berane, Herceg Novi, Mojkovac, Nikšić, Plav and Zeta with one MP each. In the professional structure, there are mostly lawyers, engineers and professors of Serbian language and literature.
The Albanian Forum will have two male representatives in the Assembly, whose average age is 53. Both are professors and come from Tuzi.
"It is important to note that this structure will change after the election of the Government, bearing in mind that a number of MPs whose political subjects will make up the Government will then transfer to the executive power, and that they will be replaced in the parliamentary benches by colleagues from the electoral lists in accordance with the established order. Also, a number of members of parliament already have public functions that are incompatible with parliamentary functions, so they will have to decide which one they will keep in the coming period," reminds Obradović.
The review of the structure of the constituent convocation of the Assembly was made through the program of the Center for Civic Education (CGO), supported through the Core grant regional project SMART Balkan - Civil society for a connected Western Balkans, which is implemented by the Center for the Promotion of Civil Society (CPCD), the Center for Research and Public Policy (CRPM) and the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) and is financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway. "The content of the text is the sole responsibility of the author and does not necessarily reflect the views of CPCD, CRPM, IDM and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway," the announcement concludes.
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