Leader of the Europe Now Movement (PES) Milojko Spajic could begin a second term as party leader this year, while the party organs of the Social Democrats (SD) Damir Šehović the first extended until the end of the next elections.
In these two political entities, four years from the last congress expire in 2026, but the SD decided to postpone it until the elections.
September marks four years since the first PES congress. The party has not specified when these activities should take place, nor who the candidates will be. However, the work program for this year, which the parties submit to the Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (ASK) and which is published on the website of that institution, states that the highest party body is planned for this year.
"Finally, as an important political-organizational event, the holding of a regular electoral assembly (Congress) has been announced, which should serve to summarize the results, define strategic directions for the coming period, and further strengthen unity within the Movement, while taking into account changes in political circumstances since the previous congress," the work plan states.
PES was founded in June 2022, and they held their first congress at the end of September of the same year. Spajić was elected president, and on that occasion his deputy (current president) was also elected. Jakov Milatovic), Vice President Olivera Injac, current ambassador to Belgium and presidency.
Milatović has since left the party, and Injac left the party by taking up a diplomatic position, but PES did not elect their successors.
SD DOES NOT WANT TO CONFUSE THE PUBLIC
Although January 30th marked the fourth anniversary of the last SD congress, the party will "celebrate" its fifth one before the new one. Namely, the party told "Vijesti" that they decided to postpone the congress until after the local and parliamentary elections in 2027. However, since the date of the state assembly elections has not yet been defined, they could not specify the exact period of the year in which the largest party body will be held.
The SD also believes that organizing the congress at this time could have confused the public, given that they are part of the European Alliance with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Liberal Party.
The party was founded in 2015, after a split in the SDP. Part of the membership was not satisfied with the leadership. Ranka Krivokapića, then split off and formed SD. At the first congress, the then Minister of Transport was elected president. Ivan BrajovićAfter his first term, he decided not to run for a second term, and was succeeded as party leader by Šehović.
This year, the People's Trust Movement (PNP) will hold its first congress. The party was formed in early November last year by former members of the Socialist People's Party (SNP) gathered around the former vice president and candidate for the head of that political entity. Dragoslav Šćekić. He announced the formation of a new party after the SNP congress held on August 30, after initially running for president of that party. However, he withdrew his candidacy a few days before the congress, which he did not attend...
"The PNP's plan is to hold the First Congress in the first half of this year. Also, the election of the president of the Youth Forum and the president of the Women's Forum is in preparation," they told the newspaper.
AGREEMENT WITH THE EMIRATES DISRUPTED PLANS
FORCA could also elect a president, vice presidents and other party leaders this year. According to the schedule, they were supposed to hold the congress last year, but, as they told "Vijesti", they were hindered by agreements with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on which they "focused their political attention".
That party held its last congress in 2021, and he was elected president then. Genzi NimanbegHe succeeded in that position Nazifa Cungu, who has been the party's leader since its founding in 2005.
Leader of the Democratic Party (DP) Fatmir Đeka He told the newspaper that the regular congress should be held this year, but that they will hold a session of the main board before the summer, at which they should make a decision on it. As he pointed out, there is a chance that they will postpone it until the next one, after the local and parliamentary elections. Đeka is currently serving his third term as president of the DP, and has been its leader since its founding in 2011.
Free Montenegro (SCG) is also electing its party leadership this year. The party confirmed to the list that its congress will be held in June.
"At the upcoming SCG congress, we will elect a new party leadership, main board, executive board, president, vice presidents and deputy president. In the last six months, SCG has formed committees in 15 Montenegrin municipalities, so the Congress will be the crowning achievement of its work so far and an overture to the election campaign that we will begin 12 months before the scheduled elections," the party leader told "Vijesti". Vladislav Dajkovic.
SCG was founded in 2022 and Dajković is its first president.
The Democratic Union of Albanians (DUA) will also elect its first president this year. The party's leader Mehmed Zenka told "Vijesti" that the congress will be held in the next "two to three months", but that activities to prepare for the event have already begun.
"Every local committee has the right to nominate candidates, the position is open to everyone," he said, adding that there is a chance that the membership will nominate him for another term.
They held their last congress in 2019, when Zenka was elected to a second term. He replaced Ferhat DinoşuZenka pointed out that the congress was supposed to be held in 2023, but that they were "disrupted by elections and agreements with the United Arab Emirates."
The Croatian Civic Initiative (HGI) did not provide the newspaper with answers about when they plan to hold their next congress, nor when the last one was held. According to information available from the media, they held their last congress in 2019. HGI Leader Adrian Vuksanovic He was then elected party leader for the first time, replacing the then-minister without portfolio. Marija Vučinović.
The congress (also called the electoral assembly in some parties) is the largest party body and is usually held every four years. It elects the president, and often other party bodies such as the main and executive committees, the presidency...
Numerous leaders renewed their mandates last year
Last year, several Montenegrin parties held party congresses - the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), the Bosniak Party (BS), the Civic Movement (GP) URA, the SNP, and the United Montenegro (UCG).
Leader of DPS Danijel Zivkovic moved from an acting mandate to a full one, while the other parties re-elected the leaders who had led them until then - Ervin Ibrahimović (B.S.), Dritan Abazović (GP URA), Vladimir Joković (SNP) and Goran Danilović (UCG).
In 2027, congresses of the Democratic People's Party, the Albanian Alternative (AA), the Democratic Alliance of Albanians, and the Liberal Party should be held.
AA will have a new president, judging by the party's statute, which does not allow a third term as president. The current leader of the party Nick Djelosaj "done" by another.
Last year's congress also "split" the SNP
The most turbulent congress last year was the SNP's.
First, the party bodies decided whether, according to the statute, Joković was entitled to a third term, which ultimately resulted in the emergence of the presidential candidate and former party vice president Dragoslav Šćekić and members important to him. He later formed the PNP.
This is not the first case of the SNP being "torn apart" after the largest party organ. The first president of that party Momir Bulatović left the SNP after the 2001 congress and formed the People's Socialist Party. A similar scenario occurred four years later, when he left that party Zoran Žižić and formed the Democratic Unity Party, but also in 2014, after which Aleksa Becic formed the Democrats, or rather in 2017 when Snežana Ionica created the Socialists.
The congress (also called the electoral assembly in some parties) is the largest party body and is usually held every four years. It elects the president, and often other party bodies...
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