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Poland’s 2025 Presidential Race: Tusk’s Patriotic Gamble
21 April 2025
Montenegro has been plunged into potentially its greatest political crisis yet, and it seems that all of the issues will need to be resolved in the upcoming presidential elections in 2023.
On Wednesday 7 December, the old-new parliamentary majority in Montenegro, comprising the winners of the 2020 elections changed the Law on the President of the Republic (Zakon o predsedniku republike), stripping the president of his power to give the Prime Minister a mandate in an attempt to resolve the constitutional crisis. This sparked major protests involving riots started by President Milo Đukanović’s supporters, which subsequently led to massive police interventions.
After the 2020 elections in Montenegro, President Milo Đukanović – who has been the absolute ruler of the country since 1990, longer than Alyaksandr Lukashenka in Belarus – lost his parliamentary majority and the opposition came to power. This opened up all the possible problems and issues within Montenegrin society and politics to such an extent that Montenegro finds itself truly at a crossroads today.