Mandić remains at the head of the Assembly: 20 MPs voted for dismissal, 41 against

Andrija Mandić remains the President of the Parliament of Montenegro.

At today's parliamentary session, 20 MPs voted in favor of dismissing Mandić, while 41 voted against his dismissal.

The results of the vote were announced by the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, Zdenka Popović.

She said that 63 ballots were cast, two of which were invalid.

As she said, Europe Now (PES) MP Gordan Stojović asked to announce that his ballot was "crossed out by mistake".

"20 MPs voted for the dismissal of the Speaker of the Assembly, and 41 against," she pointed out.

During the vote to dismiss Mandić, MPs from the Bosniak Party (BS), Social Democrats (SD), Albanian Forum, as well as MPs Miodrag Laković (PES), Drita Lola and Nikola Milović (DPS), Maja Vučelić (CIVIS), Dritan Abazović (GP URA), Mehmet Zenka (DUA) and Radinka Ćinćur (independent MP) were not in the hall.

However, after the vote, Laković and Vučelić returned to the hall, while the head of the BS MPs' club, Amer Smailović, appeared for the first time today.

The vote was held after a debate in the Parliament on the initiative of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) and the Social Democrats (SD) to dismiss Mandić.