In order for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to enter the Parliament of Montenegro, it is necessary that at least as many voters as those who supported all parties on June 8 vote for it in a repeat vote at a polling station in Cetinje on July 11.
672 voters were registered at the polling station of the Lovcen partisan detachment II in Cetinje, and 11 of them voted in the elections on June 363. The SDP needs an additional 295 votes for parliamentary status.
Last time, they were trusted by 122 citizens, the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) by 125, the Europe Now Movement (PES) by 49, and the Democrats-URA coalition by 40. Now the SDP needs a total of 416 votes if the turnout is the same.
In order to deserve parliamentary status, the SDP needs to motivate its voters to vote again, but also to get the support of at least the DPS, with whom until recently at the state level, as well as in some local elections, it led a coordinated policy. However, after refusing to be part of the coalition led by DPS on June 11 at the state level, as well as the previous formation of the local government in Cetinje with Democrats, GP URA and Old Guard LSCG, they were left without the "blessing" of the strongest opposition party.
In addition to the traditionally bad relations between the DPS and the SDP in Cetinje, it is not in the DPS's favor to help the SDP get two parliamentary seats, because that way they lose one mandate - which went to them due to scattered votes, i.e. according to Donto's method . In that case, the Europe Now Movement would lose its second mandate.
The SDP called on citizens through social networks to vote on July 8 so that, as they stated, two people from Cetinje would enter the state parliament. As you can see in the photo, they are the mayor of Prijestonica Nikola Đurašković and the general secretary of the party Ivan Vujović.
"Vijesti" was informally told in that party that they are not too optimistic when it comes to the outcome of the vote on July 8, but that they are working hard to motivate the citizens of Cetinje, because a higher turnout would be an advantage for them.
Yesterday, the PES invited the citizens of Cetinje to vote on Saturday in as large a number as possible and thereby, as they say, seal the election result of June 11.
"In the previous election cycles in Cetinje, PES achieved an impressive result, and in the repeated voting we expect that the citizens will vote even more decisively, in order to thwart the almost certain electoral engineering in the attempt", they announced from PES.
They state that they believe that in the repeated vote, voters in Cetinje will choose the Europe Now Movement and the scenario that leads to Europe, as opposed to "the Šavnik scenario that certain structures that will certainly not be part of the new executive power are trying to implement through the back door".
The elections are being repeated because last week the Constitutional Court accepted SDP's appeal against the decision of the State Election Commission and ordered the Cetinje Election Commission to repeat the voting at that polling station.
The SDP filed a complaint because, as they said, the number of control slips did not match the number of voters who were identified in the extract from the voter list as having voted.
The Constitutional Court rejected three SDP appeals as unfounded.
After the Constitutional Court has ruled on all complaints about the electoral process, the SEC will be able to announce the final results of the parliamentary elections. In the elections, PES won 24 mandates, the "Together" coalition, led by DPS, 21 mandates, ZBCG 13 mandates, the Democrats and GP URA coalition 11 mandates, the Bosniak Party six mandates, and the coalition of the Socialist People's Party (SNP) and Demos two seats. The Albanian Forum also won two mandates, and one each for the Albanian Alliance and the Croatian Civic Initiative.
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