There are 25 municipalities in Montenegro, and none of them have a woman as mayor or president. Out of 81 members of the Parliament, only 20 are women, or about a quarter. Out of 32 members of the Government, only five are women, or 15 percent, Montenegrin President Jakov Milatović announced at the “ESG Adria Summit 2025”.
He said that is why he launched the initiative to open up the political system, in order to change the way the system currently functions.
"From a system of closed electoral lists, where everything is decided within political parties, to opening electoral lists so that citizens can directly influence who represents them. I am absolutely certain that this will also lead to a more normal and natural role for women in the decision-making process than is currently the case," said Milatović.
Milatović's statement was responded to by Europe Now Movement (PES) MP Miloš Pižurica, who said that Milatović initiated the dismissal of the first female mayor in the history of Podgorica, Olivera Injac.
"President Milatović is concerned because Montenegro does not have a single female mayor. And rightly so — after he initiated the dismissal of the only one it had, the first female mayor in the history of Podgorica. Not every concern is sincere, nor is every message principled," Pižurica wrote in a post on Iksa.
At the end of July last year, the mandate of the Capital City Assembly was shortened, and councilors from the Movement for Podgorica, close to Milatović, also voted for it.
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