Stability and Continuity in Montenegro. Montenegro After a Rather Uninteresting Round of Presidential Elections
Stability and Continuity in Montenegro. Montenegro After a Rather Uninteresting Round of Presidential Elections

Summary/Abstract: On 11 May 2003, after three rounds of elections, Montenegro elected its third president in the thirteen-year-long history of its multi-party system. The candidate of the ruling coalition, the former Montenegrin Prime Minister Filip Vujanović, won with a majority of 63.3 % received votes. Vujanović comes from the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), the party which since long has dominated Montenegrin political life. The fact that the leading opposition group – the coalition “For Change” – did not manage to agree on a common candidate revealed a serious crisis within the opposition lines. The author analizes the outcome of the elections in terms of its implications for domestic politics and for the future of the newly founded State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.

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