MONTENEGRO: PARLIAMENT RESULTS OFFICIAL

UNCLAS BELGRADE 001472 SIPDIS SIPDIS SENSITIVE E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PGOV PREL MW SUBJECT: MONTENEGRO: PARLIAMENT RESULTS OFFICIAL SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE HANDLE ACCORDINGLY Ref: Belgrade 1454 This is a Podgorica cable. It has not been cleared with Embassy Belgrade. ¶1. (U) Summary: Official preliminary results for the September 10 parliamentary election were announced late on September 12. As reported earlier (ref),the ruling DPS/SDP coalition has an absolute majority, with 41 of 81 seats. End summary. ¶2. (U) Official preliminary results were announced by the Republic Election Commission late on September 12. No appeals to the results are expected, with the oppositio parties having already accepted the results. The final results will therefore be unchanged. As the largest opposition coalition, as listed on the ballot, the Serbian List will be the official Leader of the Opposition. See ref for full description of the parties. 3: (U) Results: List Percentage of votes Mandates DPS-SDP 47.65 41 Serbian List 14.37 12 SNP-NS-DSS 13.79 11 Movement for Changes-PzP 12.87 11 Liberal Party-Bosniak Party 3.69 3 DSCG-PDP 1.26* 1 DUA 1.07* 1 Albanian Alternative 0.77* 1 Civic List 0.84 0 SKJ 0.69 0 Forca 0.64* 0 Democratic Party 0.37 0 * - Ethnic Albanian party, competing for "set-aside" seats. DPS-SDP: Democratic Party of Socialists (PM Milo Djukanovic),Social Democratic Party Serbian List: Serbian People's Party (SNS),Radical Party SNP-NS-DSS: Socialist People's Party, People's Party, Democratic Serbian Party Movement for Changes: Headed by Nebojsa Medojevic LP-BS: Liberal Party, Bosniac Party DSCG-PDP: Democratic League of Montenegro (Mehmet Bardhi) DUA: Democratic Union of Albanians (Ferhat Dinosa) SKJ: Communist Party of Yugoslavia ¶4. (U) Distribution of Seats in Parliament: DPS 33 Democratic Party of Socialists PzP 12 Movement for Changes SNS 8 Serbian People's Party SDP 7 Social Democratic Party NS 2 People's Party BP 2 Bosniac Party LP 1 Liberal Party Radical 1 Serbian Radical Party - headed by Vojislav - Seselj NSS 1 National Socialist Party - headed by Momir - Bulatovic; part of Serbian List DSJ 1 Democratic Party of Unity - part of Serbian - List HGI 1 Croatian Civic Initiative - in coalition with - DPS/SDP DSS 1 Democratic Serbian Party DSCG 1 Democratic League of Montenegro DUA 1 Democratic Union of Albanians AA 1 Albanian Alternative Sixteen parties will be in Parliament; only 11 parties were in the last Parliament. POLT