2001 Montenegrin parliamentary election

2001 Montenegrin parliamentary election

22 April 2001

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PCG Milo Đukanović 42.36 36 −1 ZZJ Predrag Bulatović 40.87 33 −1 LSCG Miodrag Živković 7.91 6 +1 UDSH Fuad Nimani 1.16 1 0 DSCG Mehmet Bardhi 0.98 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Dark Blue: absolute SNP-SNS-NS majority Light Blue: relative SNP-SNS-NS majority Red: DPS-SDP absolute majority Orange: relative DPS-SDP majority Light Green: Liberal relative majority Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Filip Vujanović DPS Filip Vujanović DPS

Parliamentary elections were held in Montenegro on 22 April 2001. The result was a victory for the Victory is of Montenegro alliance formed by the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro and the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro, which won 36 of the 77 seats.

Electoral system

Of the 77 seats in Parliament, 72 were elected by proportional representation in a nationwide constituency and five were elected in a special constituency for the Albanian minority. The electoral threshold was set at 3% and seats allocated using the d'Hondt method. Closed lists were used with a single list for both constituencies, although parties only had to award half their seats according to the order of the list, with the remaining half free for them to allocate.

Contesting parties

Name			Abbreviation	Main ideology	Leader
	Victory is Montenegro's Pobjeda je Crne Gore Побједа је Црнe Горe	Democratic Party of Socialists Demokratska partija socijalista Демократска партија социјалиста	DPS	Social democracy Separatism	Milo Đukanović
		Social Democratic Party Socijaldemokratska partija Социјалдемократска партија	SDP	Social democracy Separatism	Žarko Rakčević
	Together for Yugoslavia Заједно за Југославију	Socialist People's Party Socijalistička narodna partija Социјалистичка народна партија	SNP	Social conservatism Unionism	Predrag Bulatović
		People's Party Narodna stranka Народна странка	NS	Cultural conservatism Unionism	Dragan Šoć
		Serb People's Party Srpska Narodna stranka Српска Народна странка	SNS	National conservatism Unionism	Božidar Bojović
	Liberal Alliance of Montenegro Liberalni savez Crne Gore Либерални савез Црне Горе		LSCG	Liberalism Separatism	Miroslav Vicković
	Democratic League in Montenegro Demokratski savez u Crnoj Gori Lidhja Demokratike në Mal të Zi		DS	Albanian minority interests Liberal conservativism	Mehmet Bardhi
	Democratic Union of Albanians Demokratska unija Albanaca Unioni Demokratik i Shqipëtarëve		DUA	Albanian minority interests Social conservatism	Fuad Nimani

Victory is of Montenegro

The coalition lost parliamentary majority, winning just 36 of 77 seats (30 for DPS and 6 for SDP). Contrary to everyone's expectation, the now opposing, once former ally, Liberal Alliance supported it to form a minority government under Filip Vujanović. But closer aligning of LSCG with the Together for Yugoslavia bloc distanced it from the minority coalition. The government signed the Belgrade Agreement in 2002, by which the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was transformed into the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, and the Republic of Montenegro re-integrated into political structure with Serbia.

Together for Yugoslavia

The Socialist People's Party of Montenegro received 21 seat, People's Party of Montenegro got 9 and the Serbian People's Party of Montenegro 3. The coalition won these elections and had support of the majority of the Parliament, but inner conflicts and organized obstruction from the opposition under Milo Djukanovic, prevented it from succeeding in forming the government which was supposed to be led by Prime Minister candidate Predrag Bulatović. The deadline passed an Predrag reformed a more organized and stronger coalition determined to repeat the election in 2002, however disappointment returned Milo Đukanović's DPS CG to power which won the election.

Liberal Alliance of Montenegro

At the election, LSCG received a larger number of votes: 7,85% (almost 28.000 votes), winning 6 seats in the Assembly. Due do the political deadlock, in which no party had won absolute power, LSCG made an agreement with DPS to support the minority government, following a pledge from DPS that within a year a referendum on independence will have been held. However, LSCG still retained the resolute opposition attitude, and withdrew support to the minority government due to the fact that the referendum has not been announced in the promised period.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				General	Albanian	Total	+/–
	Victory is Montenegro's	153,946	42.36	33	3	36	−1
	Together for Yugoslavia	148,513	40.87	33	0	33	−1
	Liberal Alliance of Montenegro	28,746	7.91	6	0	6	+1
	People's Socialist Party of Montenegro	10,702	2.94	0	0	0	New
	Serbian Radical Party	4,275	1.18	0	0	0	0
	Democratic Union of Albanians	4,232	1.16	0	1	1	0
	Bosniak-Muslim Coalition	4,046	1.11	0	0	0	New
	Democratic League in Montenegro	3,570	0.98	0	1	1	0
	Communist and Workers' Parties	1,640	0.45	0	0	0	0
	Party of Democratic Prosperity	1,572	0.43	0	0	0	New
	Party of Foreign Currency Savers	639	0.18	0	0	0	0
	Natural Law Party of Montenegro	512	0.14	0	0	0	0
	Liberal Democratic Party	354	0.10	0	0	0	New
	People's Concord of Montenegro	268	0.07	0	0	0	New
	Party of Savings and Social Security	199	0.05	0	0	0	0
	Yugoslav Left in Montenegro	190	0.05	0	0	0	0
Total		363,404	100.00	72	5	77	−1
Valid votes		363,404	99.25
Invalid/blank votes		2,748	0.75
Total votes		366,152	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		447,673	81.79
Source: Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre