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, percentage5=6.4% , seats5=4 , last_election5=New On 23 October 2022, elections were held to elect members of the City Assembly of Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro. Eight parties or coalitions contested for 58 seats, with a 3% vote threshold required to win seats.

Electoral system

Voters in Podgorica determine the composition of the City Assembly, which in turn elects the Mayor, who is thus indirectly elected by the voters. Only parties that reach an electoral threshold of 3% gain seats in the Assembly. The Mayor may or may not be a councillor of the Assembly, which is elected every four years.

Campaign

Although some campaigns address local issues, most campaigns address only national issues due to the high degree of political polarisation in Montenegro.

Europe Now The Europe Now Movement (Montenegrin language, Montenegrin and Serbian language, Serbian: Pokret Evropa sad / Покрет Европа сад; PES), sometimes stylised with an exclamation mark, is a centrist political organization in Montenegro,

(ES), a new

economically liberal Economic liberalism is a political and economic ideology that supports a market economy based on individualism and private property in the means of production. Adam Smith is considered one of the primary initial writers on economic liberalism, ...

movement, nominated Jakov Milatović, an economist and popular minister of the 42nd Cabinet, for mayor. The party is running on an anti-corruption platform, focused on overthrowing the ruling DPS. In addition, ES also wants to increase tourism in Podgorica and build a new

business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...

. The Democrats' coalition is also focused on overthrowing DPS, barely addressing local topics. The URA coalition has put forth many proposals that are focused on making Podgorica greener, such as stopping the ongoing destruction of forests and parks. They plan to build a tram system, as the only public transport Podgorica has now are buses. Most other campaigns, mainly the DPS, back this, but claim it is now too expensive to build, and such must be postponed until Montenegro joins the EU. In their campaign pamphlet, the URA also plan to close off the Old Town, currently barely walkable, as well as the city centre, and build underground parking lots in both parts of the city. The Socialist People's Party of Montenegro (SNP) is running alone, and its campaign resembles the centre-left shift the party has been taking since entering the

minority government A minority government, minority cabinet, minority administration, or a minority parliament is a government and Cabinet (government), cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or Coalition government, coalition of parties do ...

. It promotes a green, ' smart city' campaign. The

Democratic Front Democratic Front is a name used by political parties and alliances in several countries, such as: *Democratic Front (Albania) *Democratic Front for the Liberation of Angola *Democratic Front (Bosnia and Herzegovina) *Democratic Front (Cyprus) * Demo ...

(DF)–led coalition's composition shows the alliance's shift to the right, with politicians such as

radical conservative Ultraconservatism refers to extreme conservative views in politics or religious practice. In modern politics, the term "ultraconservative" usually refers to conservatives of the far-right on the political spectrum, comprising groups or indivi ...

, Christian fundamentalist, and pro-Russian Vladislav Dajković leading a party in the coalition. Dajković is one of the more radical Serbian nationalist politicians in Montenegro and notoriously posts tweets on Twitter that deny the Montenegrin ethnicity and language and claim Montenegro as a ' Serbian Sparta'. The DF campaign, called "For the Future of Podgorica" () mainly focuses on national topics, advocating for Christian conservative and Serbian nationalist values, but also advocates for overthrowing DPS due to corruption. The Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (DPS)–led coalition is currently in power and is headed by

. Vuković tries to distance his campaign from the notoriously corrupt national branch of DPS and focuses on local topics, with a

green liberal Green liberalism, or liberal environmentalism, is liberalism that includes green politics in its ideology. Green liberals are usually Social liberalism, liberal on social issues and "green" on economic issues. The term "green liberalism" was coin ...

platform. His campaign book goes over the changes in the last 4 years, and despite the two parties being strongly opposed to each other, DPS promises to match the URA promises, although on a smaller scale. ''Reversal'' () is a small anti-corruption and green movement aiming to end

particracy Particracy, also known as partitocracy, partitocrazia or partocracy, is a form of government in which the political parties are the primary basis of rule rather than citizens and/or individual politicians. As argued by Italian political scient ...

. It has been able to widely publicize many of its views due to the movement being very small and new. Along with Podgorica, it is participating in the Danilovgrad elections. The ''Saint Sava Serbian List'' () is a small, radically conservative, Christian fundamentalist, and Serbian nationalist electoral list. Their arguments edge close to some of Dajković's rhetoric, and they barely suggest anything involving local issues, only attempting to rally support for the

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, the majority church in Montenegro.

Results

Notes

References

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