Montenegro Legislative Elections, September 10

[Bono]

Anyone got any polls or info?
I can give you the current parliament composition:

   Demokratska Partija Socijalista (DPS)
Democratic Party of Socialists, social-dem. 31 seats

   Socijaldemokratska Partija Crne Gore (SDP)
Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, social-dem. 7 seats

Gradjanska Partija Crne Gore (GPCG)
Civic Party of Montenegro, liberal 1 Seat

These three parties ran in coalition last elections and got 47,7% of the vote.


Socijalistička Narodna Partija Crne Gore (SNP)
Socialist People's Party of Montenegro, social-dem. 19 seats

Narodna Stranka (NS)
People's Party, (national-) conserv. 5 seats

Srpska Narodna Stranka (SNS)
Serbian People's Party, (national-) conserv. 6 seats

These three parties ran in a coalition last elections and got 37,8% of the vote.

Liberalna Partija Crne Gore (LPCG)
Liberal Party of Montenegro, liberal 4 seats 5,7% of the vote(well actually technically it wasn't the same party, but this is its sucessor)

Demokratska Koalicija - Albanci Zajedno (DK)
Democratic Coalition - Albanians Together, ethnic/albanian 2 seats 2,5% of the vote

[minionofmidas]

Election result:
Coalition for a European Montenegro (joint list of DPS & SDP) 49.6% / 39 seats
Serbian List 15.3% / 12 seats
SNP - NS - DSS coalition (joint list) 14.8% / 11 seats
Movement for Change 13.9% / 11 seats
Liberals and Bosnian Party (joint list) 3.8% / 3 seats
others 2.6% / 0 seats
D'Hondt in single nationwide constituency used, probably with no threshold. If no threshold, largest other party polled 1.2% maximum.
I'd have to check on the policies of this "movement for change". Excluding them, it's 42 seats pro-independence, 23 seats pro-reunification.

[minionofmidas]

While not pro reunification, Movement for Change is very anti Djukanovic, and was tipped to draw votes chiefly from the former anti-independence camp.

Serbian List is also a coalition list of several parties, of which SNS was by far the largest.

There was a total of 12 lists running - 6 individual parties (of which only 1 won seats), 5 joint slates of 2 or more parties (of which 4 won seats), and 1 slate of independents.

There were no less than four ethnic Albanian lists running, which explains why none of them won seats. They'll hopefully learn their lesson...

Incidentally, before the referendum Djukanovic had promised a law that would reserve some seats to the Bosnian (apparently the term is nowadays applied to all Slavic-speaking Muslims... Macedonia uses it too) and Albanian minorities should there be a "yes" win. They passed one in a hurry, which was apparently blatantly unconstitutional and swiftly got struck down by the Supreme Court - there's a rumour that this was done on purpose. Remember how strongly the Albanian and Muslim areas of Crna Gora voted for independence?

On a similar note, Djukanovic had also promised to reduce prison terms of all convicted felons, should there be an overwhelming "yes" vote from the prisons. There was, apparently (although I don't know how they can know that), but Djukanovic has reneged on his promise, and there is now a hunger strike going on among the prisoners as a result.

They really tried every single trick in the book to get to those magic 55% percent...

[Bono]

There's a 3% clause, Lewis.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Incidentally, before the referendum Djukanovic had promised a law that would reserve some seats to the Bosnian (apparently the term is nowadays applied to all Slavic-speaking Muslims... Macedonia uses it too)

The term is Bosniak. Bosnian only applies to residents of Bosnia.

[ag]

Incidentally, before the referendum Djukanovic had promised a law that would reserve some seats to the Bosnian (apparently the term is nowadays applied to all Slavic-speaking Muslims... Macedonia uses it too)

The term is Bosniak. Bosnian only applies to residents of Bosnia.

Except that "Bosniak" means "Bosnian".  I am not sure if there is another way of calling someone "Bosnian" in Serbo-Croatian (a Russian could say "bosniec", but I am not sure how much of a russism this would be for the locals).

[minionofmidas]

Incidentally, before the referendum Djukanovic had promised a law that would reserve some seats to the Bosnian (apparently the term is nowadays applied to all Slavic-speaking Muslims... Macedonia uses it too)

The term is Bosniak. Bosnian only applies to residents of Bosnia.

Except that "Bosniak" means "Bosnian".  I am not sure if there is another way of calling someone "Bosnian" in Serbo-Croatian (a Russian could say "bosniec", but I am not sure how much of a russism this would be for the locals).

Well the plural form used by the Macedonian census was "Bosnjacy".
Either way, wether you call it "Bosnian" or "Bosniak" the term is still derived from the land, Bosnia.

[minionofmidas]

There's a 3% clause, Lewis.

Source?
Since there obviously wasn't last time...

[Bono]

There's a 3% clause, Lewis.

Source?
Since there obviously wasn't last time...

http://parties-and-elections.de/montenegro.html

[minionofmidas]

There's a 3% clause, Lewis.

Source?
Since there obviously wasn't last time...

http://parties-and-elections.de/montenegro.html

Hmm. This also has somewhat different percentages.