In the new convocation of the Podgorica parliament, 15 political entities: Five parties have more mandates, three less, four on the same mandate

In the new convocation of the Podgorica parliament, 15 parties/movements will have councilors - five less than in the outgoing one, constituted in April last year. The most representatives - 19, will represent the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), and the least - one, five parties.

Mandates were won by seven lists in the early elections in the capital the day before yesterday. According to preliminary data from the Center for Democratic Transition (CDT), the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) won 19 seats in the city assembly (29,95 percent or 24.309 votes), the Europe Now Movement (PES) and the Democrats 14 (21,77 percent or 17.672). votes), the coalition gathered around the parties of the former Democratic Front (DF) 13 (20,16 percent or 16.361 votes), the list "Za bolja Podgorica" ​​six (10,52 percent or 8.538 votes), the European Union three (5,43 percent or 4.411 votes), and Reversal and the Party of European Progress (SEP) two each (3,33 or 2.705 votes and 3,08 percent or 2.504 votes).

Six lists remained below the census - the "Forward" movement (2,75 percent or 2.233 votes), the Podgorica List (0,63 percent or 515 votes), the Montenegrin European Party (0,71 percent or 573 votes), the Tenants' Movement (0,28 .226 percent or 0,21 votes), the Montenegrin Civic Action (174 percent or 1,17 votes) and the Bosniak Party (BS) (953 percent or XNUMX votes).

Almost all the constituents of the coalition lists that passed the census entered the local parliament - with the exception of the Liberal Party (LP), which is part of the European Union with the Social Democrats (SD) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), and the Movement for Change (PzP), which is with the Civic Movement (GP) URA and the Movement for Podgorica (PzPG), close to the head of state Jakov Milatović, was on the list "For a better Podgorica".

Given that they appeared alone, DPS, SEP and Preokret will keep all the mandates "for themselves", while the others will share them. In the last elections, held in October 2022, DPS won 16 mandates within the wider coalition, three less than the day before yesterday, and SEP and Preokret are in the Podgorica parliament for the first time.

Of the 14 seats it won with the Democrats, PES will get eight, and Aleksa Bečić's party will get six. Prime Minister Milojko Spajić's party had seven councilors in the outgoing convocation, while the Democrats had four.

Andrije Mandić's New Serbian Democracy (NSD), one of the constituents of the former DF, will also have five representatives in the future. The other member of that alliance, the Democratic People's Party (DNP) of Milan Knežević, will be represented by three councilors. Their partners in these elections, United Montenegro, Socialist People's Party (SNP), True Montenegro and Free Montenegro will each have one representative. One mandate from that coalition list belongs to its holder, Jelena Borovinić Bojović, who is a non-party person, but is on the NSD quota. In addition, the mandate that belonged to Prava is on the DNP quota.

The NSD had three councilors in the current convocation of the parliament, the DNP had one (Nemanja Baošić), who left them in January. United, Prava and Slobodna were also represented by one councilor each, while the SNP remained below the census in the previous elections.

SD will have two representatives in the new convocation, and SDP one. In the last elections, in which they participated in alliance with DPS, they won two mandates each, while LP had one.

PzPG will share six seats in the Podgorica parliament with GP URA Dritan Abazović, so that the movement close to Milatović will get four positions, and GP URA two. PzPG has five councilors in the outgoing convocation, and GP URA has three. The PzP, which remained "below the line" in the distribution of mandates, had three councilors until recently, but two were expelled this summer because they did not support shortening the mandate of the capital's Assembly.

When the above data are added up, it can be seen that five parties - DPS, PES, Democrats, NSD and DNP - won more mandates than in the previous elections, three less - PzPG, GP URA and SDP, and that four remain at the same number - SD, United, Right and Free.

SEP, Preokret and SNP are not included in the calculation because they did not have parliamentary status.

In the new convocation, apart from LP, PzP and BS, there will be no Demos, Workers' Party, CIVIS, Civic Initiative (GI) "21. May" and the Democratic Roma Party, which did not even participate in the elections. The Democratic Roma Party, which was in alliance with the DPS in the last elections, has one councilor (Mensur Šalaj), who will keep his position because he was on the DPS list in the elections the day before yesterday.