Le parlement monténégrin a convoqué, aujourd’hui, pour le 6 avril la première élection présidentielle depuis que le Monténégro a proclamé son indépendance.
Le Monténégro, qui compte 484.430 électeurs, a proclamé son indépendance en juin 2006 après un référendum qui a vu 55,5% des électeurs apporter leur soutien à sa séparation d’avec la Serbie.
Un second tour aura lieu dans un délai de deux semaines si aucun des candidats n’obtient la majorité au premier tour. Le président sera élu pour cinq ans.Source : AFPMontenegro: Presidential vote called for April 6

Presidential elections will be held in Montenegro on April 6, Speaker Ranko Krivokapi? announced yesterday.

Beta news agency reports from Podgorica that Krivokapi? called on citizens to participate in the election process, thus contributing to “the culture of dialogue, living in harmony together and everything that adorns Montenegro.”

He also appealed to the presidential candidates to behave in such a way as to contribute to “the code of honor and honesty, to those values that will gather the citizens around European integrations.”

Krivokapi? was speaking in a news conference when he invited the OSCE, the EU, and other international organizations and associations to monitor the presidential elections in Montenegro.

He also said that “the winner is already known, and that is the freely expressed will of the citizens.”

Incumbent Filip Vujanovi? of the Democratic Party of Socialists will run for another term, and is being challenged by the leaders of the two biggest opposition parties, Nebojša Medojevi? of the Movement for Change and Andrija Mandi? of the Serb People’s Party.

The largely ceremonial post has a 5-year mandate. Montenegro became independent in June 2006 after voting to dissolve the union with its larger neighbor Serbia.