| Vujanovic became President of Montenegro According to the results of the presidential elections in Montenegro announced yesterday, 48-year-old Filip Vujanovic, the nominee of the Democratic Party of Socialists (its leader is the current Prime Minister of Montenegro and its ex-President Milo Djukanovic), will finally receive the presidential standard. He could have received it earlier if the election law had been corrected in time. After all, both on December 22, 2002, and on February 9 this year, the majority of citizens who took part in the vote supported his candidacy. But both times the elections were considered invalid: Montenegrins demonstrated political apathy, their turnout at polling stations did not reach the required 50%. Last Sunday, the electorate again showed passivity, but now the law does not regulate turnout and the winner is the candidate for whom half of those who took part in the elections vote.
The presidential title is now nominal in Montenegro. The head of everything is the Prime Minister of the Republic, who has been Milo Djukanovic since October, who gave up the presidency ahead of schedule. Since then, the duties of the outgoing president have been performed by the speaker of the Montenegrin Assembly (parliament) Filip Vujanovic, Djukanovic’s “right hand”. Previously, Mr. Vujanovic, being the Prime Minister of Montenegro, advocated for the independence of the republic from Yugoslavia. Having taken with hostility the “marriage” imposed on Montenegro by the West with Serbia within the framework of the state symbiosis of S&M, Filip Vujanovic now promises the Montenegrins in three years (according to the S&C constitution, this will be legitimate only then) to hold a referendum on Montenegro’s exit from state formation. Vujanovic has time - the presidential mandate is issued for four years. Katerina LABETSKAYA |
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