Economist Jakov Milatovic37 won this Sunday presidential elections Montenegro getting 60.1% of the voteaccording to the initial projections of the review.
The future president was the candidate of the young movement Europe Now! (ES) and defeated current president Milo Djukanovic, who got 39.9% of the vote in the second election round.
The calculations of the non-governmental organization CeMI, broadcast by the public television RTCG, based on approximately 90% of the vote count.
More than 540,000 voting citizens were summoned today to elect a president for a five-year term in the small Balkan country that has been a NATO member since 2017 and a candidate to enter the European Union (EU).
With this defeat, Djukanovic also loses his last position of power in Montenegro, a small former Yugoslav republic whose politics he has dominated for three decades. six times prime minister and twice president.
Milatovic took part as Finance Minister of the coalition that ousted the Socialist Democratic Party of Montenegro (DPS) in December 2020 and has been led by Djukanovic for decades.
After that executive fell in April 2021, the economist founded a new party, ES, which is pro-European but also close to Serbia.