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Turnout was high, with 74.2 percent of those eligible to vote casting their vote at 7 p.m., according to the latest data.
Parliamentary elections in Montenegro have ended and polling stations close at 8pm on Sunday night.
The ruling pro-Western socialists are once again expected to form a government, but for the first time in the last thirty years, the struggle between the party led by Milo Djukanovic and the friendly Serbian opposition can be very fierce.
The biggest controversy during the campaign was generated by the Ecclesiastical Law approved last December. According to this, religious communities must document what property they owned before 1918, that is, before Montenegro joined the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. According to the Serbian Orthodox Church, they could lose significant real estate, including medieval churches and monasteries. About a third of the population of the 620,000 Adriatic countries declared themselves Serbs in the last census, and two-thirds of the population are Orthodox Serbs, so it is not surprising that the new legislation has outraged them, just as it is surprising that a country with conservative principles the political power that has ruled for three decades could shake due to a religious issue.
The just over 540,000 citizens eligible to vote were able to choose from a total of eleven parties or coalitions on Sunday. Parliament is elected for four years, and a party or coalition must win 41 parliamentary seats to form a government.
Observers said the vote was conducted in a relaxed atmosphere, that there were no significant irregularities, and that health standards were introduced due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The first, unofficial results are expected late Sunday night, and the election committee will announce the final result no later than Wednesday.
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