MONTENEGRO: PARLIAMENT RESULTS OFFICIAL

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Ref: Belgrade 1454

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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.

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