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2001 Montenegrin parliamentary election

Parliamentary election held in Montenegro, FR Yugoslavia

Field	Value
country	Montenegro
flag_year	1993
election_date	22 April 2001
previous_election	1998
next_election	2002
party1	PCG	leader1 = Milo Đukanović	last_election1 = 37	seats1 = 36	percentage1 = 42.36
party2	ZZJ	leader2 = Predrag Bulatović	last_election2 = 34	seats2 = 33	percentage2 = 40.87
party3	Liberal Alliance of Montenegro	colour3 = green	leader3 = Miodrag Živković	last_election3 = 5	seats3 = 6	percentage3 = 7.91
party4	Democratic Union of Albanians	leader4 = Fuad Nimani	last_election4 = 1	seats4 = 1	percentage4 = 1.16
party5	Democratic League in Montenegro	leader5 = Mehmet Bardhi	last_election5 = 1	seats5 = 1	percentage5 = 0.98
map	[[Image:MontenegroParliament2001.png	250px]]
map_caption	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
title	Prime Minister
before_election	Filip Vujanović
before_party	Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro
after_election	Filip Vujanović
after_party	Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro

Light Blue: relative SNP-SNS-NS majority Red: DPS-SDP absolute majority Orange: relative DPS-SDP majority Light Green: Liberal relative majority

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
European Montenegro}}		Victory is Montenegro's
Pobjeda je Crne Gore
Побједа је Црнe Горe	Democratic Party of Socialists
Demokratska partija socijalista
Демократска партија социјалиста	DPS
Social Democratic Party
Socijaldemokratska partija
Социјалдемократска партија	SDP	Social democracy
Separatism	Žarko Rakčević
Together for Change}}		Together for Yugoslavia
Заједно за Југославију	Socialist People's Party
Socijalistička narodna partija
Социјалистичка народна партија	SNP
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}}		Liberal Alliance of Montenegro
Liberalni savez Crne Gore
Либерални савез Црне Горе	LSCG	Liberalism
Separatism
Democratic League in Montenegro}}		Democratic League in Montenegro
Demokratski savez u Crnoj Gori
Lidhja Demokratike në Mal të Zi	DS	Albanian minority interests
Liberal conservativism
Democratic Union of Albanians}}		Democratic Union of Albanians
Demokratska unija Albanaca
Unioni Demokratik i Shqipëtarëve	DUA	Albanian minority interests
Social conservatism

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

References

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