Political Crisis In Montenegro Is Accelerating

A Byzantine collection of political forces is threatening stability at a crucial time for the Western Balkan nation

14 December 2022

Jan Farfał

Europe Enlargement Fellow

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.

The Political Labyrinth of Montenegro

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.

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Jan Farfał

Europe Enlargement Fellow

Deputy Editor in Chief at Res Publica Nowa. Doctoral Candidate at the University of Oxford and Research Assistant to Timothy Garton Ash, co-founder of the Club Alpbach Poland, Committee Representative for the Security Track at the European Forum Alpbach, and visiting fellow at IWM - Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. Researcher in the project ‘Europe in a Changing World', at the European Studies Center at the University of Oxford.

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