Election silence in Montenegro ahead of Sunday polls

SOURCE: BETA, TANJUG
PODGORICA -- The pre-election silence started at midnight in Montenegro ahead of the presidential election on Sunday.

Filip Vujanović (Tanjug, file)

 

Filip Vujanović (Tanjug, file)
Only two candidates are running for president – Filip Vujanović and Miodrag Lekić.

Montenegrin citizens will vote at 1,169 polling stations that will be open from 7:00 until 20:00 CET on Sunday.

The Sunday election will be sixth since the multiparty system was introduced and second since Montenegro became independent in 2006.

In his campaign, Lekić focused on ties of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (DPS), led by Vujanović, with crime and corruption. He promises to “take down the criminal pyramid”.

Vujanović on the other hand promises stability and a better standard of living.

Opinion polls show that Vujanović is in the lead.

Minority parties support Vujanović but the Social Democratic Party, led by Ranko Krivokapić, which has been the DPS' coalition partner for several years now, has stated that it will not support Vujanović and that its members and supporters would not even go to the polls.

511,405 Montenegrins are eligible to vote in the presidential election.

The election will be monitored by OSCE and Council of Europe (CoE) Parliamentary Assembly missions.