Members of the Parliament of Montenegro were paid a total of 36.469,06 euros for daily allowances during official trips in the country and abroad in the first six months of 2026, while all their travel expenses, including daily allowances, transportation, accommodation, tourist taxes and other expenses, amounted to 213.769,87 euros.
The MP received the most money in per diems Jevrosima Pejović - 3.320,89 euros. The following Nadja Laković at 2.272,13, Gordan Stojović 2.020,31 i Edina Dešić 1.836,70 euros.
This is shown by the Parliament's data on official travel expenses from January 1 to June 30, submitted in early September following a request for free access to information. The parliamentary records list the destination, purpose, date and individual expenses for each trip.
Ten MPs received a total of 18.305,35 euros in daily allowances, or slightly more than half of all payments.
The majority of travel relates to participation in the work of international parliamentary organizations and their committees - the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO and other forums. The records also include bilateral visits, conferences, celebrations of state anniversaries and events such as the Prayer Breakfast in Washington. Several MPs have also had their trips cancelled or trips for which they waived their daily allowances, so their daily allowances have not been paid.
At the top of the list is Jevrosima Pejović (Special Group of Deputies), who had 11 recorded travel orders in the first half of the year. She was in Washington from January 31 to February 6, and then in Vienna from February 17 to 20. She waived her daily allowance for Budva from February 28 to March 1. This was followed by Tbilisi from March 7 to 11, Budapest from April 9 to 13, and Istanbul from April 15 to 20. From April 25 to May 1, she traveled to Copenhagen and Strasbourg, and from May 12 to 17 to Vienna and Rome. She was in Yerevan from May 21 to 24, in Vienna on May 29, and then again in Yerevan from June 3 to 9. On these trips, she was charged daily allowances of 3.320,89 euros.
According to the description of the purpose of the trip, Pejović went to Washington for a Prayer Breakfast, while several other trips were related to the work of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, observation missions, and meetings of parliamentary bodies.
Nađa Laković (PES) was paid 2.272,13 euros in daily allowances. Parliamentary documentation records eight of her trips. She was in Strasbourg from 25 to 30 January, in Budva on 5 and 6 February, in Paris from 1 to 3 March, and then in Monaco and Paris from 8 to 12 March. She was in Budapest from 9 to 13 April, then again in Strasbourg from 19 to 23 April, in Paris from 12 to 14 May and once again in Strasbourg from 21 to 25 June. Most of these trips were related to PACE activities.
Gordan Stojović (PES) was charged 2.020,31 euros in daily allowances. He travelled to Madeira from 23 to 27 January, to Zagreb from 18 to 20 February, and to Trieste from 16 to 20 March. He was in Istanbul from 14 to 20 April. The trip to Rome, planned from 22 to 25 April, was recorded as cancelled, so no daily allowance was paid for him. Stojović then stayed in Strasbourg from 28 April to 1 May, and in Odessa from 26 to 31 May, where he participated in the Black Sea Security Forum.
Edina Dešić (BS) received 1.836,70 euros for daily allowances. She was in Strasbourg from 25 to 30 January, in Istanbul from 1 and 2 March, and in New York from 10 to 16 March. The longest single trip on her record was to the Chinese province of Shandong, from 22 to 29 May. She ended the semester with a trip to Strasbourg from 21 to 26 June.
Nikola Zirojević (SD) was paid 1.740,21 euros in daily allowance. He was in Brussels from 23 to 27 February, while the trip to Nicosia from 3 to 5 March was cancelled. He travelled to Brussels again from 21 to 23 April, and from 3 to 8 May he stayed in Berlin and Munich. He was in Chicago from 20 to 31 May, after which he travelled to Zagreb from 1 to 3 June and to Istanbul from 7 to 13 June. Another trip to Brussels, from 22 to 25 June, was also recorded as cancelled.
Dritan Abazović (URA) was charged 1.627,33 euros for daily allowances. He was in Ljubljana from 28 to 30 January, and then in Washington from 31 January to 5 February, where he participated in the Prayer Breakfast. In March, he stayed in Grosseto, Italy, from 11 to 13. In June, he traveled to Berlin from 10 to 13 and New York from 21 to 26 June.
Nikola Camaj (AF) received 1.609,18 euros in daily allowances, with one of the longest lists of travel orders. He was in Strasbourg from 25 to 28 January, in Pristina from 16 and 17 February, in Budapest from 26 and 27 February, and in Budva from 28 February to 1 March. In March, he travelled to Zagreb from 4 to 6, Paris from 10 to 12 and Vienna from 26 and 27 March. He was in Strasbourg from 19 to 22 April, and in Skopje from 23 to 25 April. In May, he travelled again to Skopje from 17 to 19 and to Tallinn from 25 to 28, while he was in the Vatican from 2 to 5 June. His records show three more trips marked as canceled - Paris in March, Strasbourg at the turn of April into May, and Istanbul at the end of June.
Miloš Konatar (URA) was paid 1.457,75 euros in daily allowances for three trips, all to Strasbourg. The first lasted from 25 to 30 January, the second from 19 to 24 April, and the third from 21 to 26 June. The trip was to attend sessions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
Dejan Djurovic (NSD) received 1.305,71 euros in daily allowances. He was in Belgrade from 11 to 12 February, but waived his daily allowances for that trip, and then again from 20 to 22 February. He stayed in Geneva from 19 to 23 April, and in Strasbourg from 26 to 30 April. From 4 to 8 May he traveled to Budva, in mid-May he returned to Belgrade, and from 18 to 22 June he traveled to Marrakech.
The tenth position among MPs with the highest daily allowances is occupied by Ivan Vukovic (DPS) with 1.115,14 euros. From January 10 to 13, he stayed in Nicosia, and from February 2 to 12 in Washington. The trip to Nicosia from March 14 to 18 was canceled, while from April 28 to May 1, Vuković stayed in Strasbourg.
Almost two-fifths of MPs did not travel
While the ten MPs from the top of the list received more than half of the money paid for daily allowances, a significant portion of their colleagues did not have a single official trip.
A comparison of travel records with the 81-member parliament shows that 32 parliamentarians did not undertake any official travel during the first six months of the year. This means that 49 parliamentarians undertook at least one official trip, while almost two-fifths of the parliament did not undertake any official travel.
The individual cost of an official trip, however, does not only include per diems. For more distant destinations, transportation and accommodation exceeded the per diems many times over, so the ranking of MPs according to the total cost of the trip is not the same as the ranking according to the money they received for per diems.
Who hasn't traveled?
Among those who did not travel were Jelenka Andrić (PES), Mihailo Andjušić (DPS), Boris Bogdanović (Democrats), Bogdan Božović (SNP), Ilir Čapuni (AA), Vasilije Čarapić (PES), Abaz Dizdarevic (DPS), Oskar Huter (DPS), Nikola Janović (independent MP), Jelena Kljajević (DNP), Milan Knežević (DNP), Dane Marković (PES), Sonja Milatović (DPS), Vaso Obradović (NSD), Boris Pejović (PES), Miloš Pižurica (PES), Nikola Rakočević (DPS), Nela Savković Vukčević (DPS), Armen Šehović (PES), Dragana Vučević (PES), Milena Vuković (URA), Milan Zečević (PES), Mehmed Zenka (DUA), Danijel Živković (DPS), Elvir Zvrko (DPS), Nikola Milović (DPS), Nermin Abdić (DPS), Vladimir Bakrač (PES), Albin Ćeman (Democrats), Vladimir Dobričanin (UCG), Miodrag Laković (independent MP) and Uglješa Urošević (PES).
Seven of them do appear in the parliamentary travel records, but their only planned trips were cancelled. These are Čapuni, Dizdarević, Obradović, Pižurica, Rakočević, Savković Vukčević and Laković. For some of the cancelled trips, the Parliament may have incurred costs for tickets or reservations already purchased. The remaining 25 MPs do not appear in the official travel records for the first half of the year at all.
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