Predrag Bulatović (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, t ...

: Предраг Булатовић; born 16 July 1956) is a Montenegrin politician, current member of the

Parliament of Montenegro The Parliament of Montenegro ( cg, Скупштина Црне Горе, Skupština Crne Gore) is the unicameral legislature of Montenegro. The Parliament currently has 81 members, with each member elected to a four-year term. Following the 2006 ...

and vice-president of the Democratic People's Party since the party's founding in March 2015. Bulatović is also a member of the presidency of the Democratic Front alliance.

Political career

Leader of the opposition

As the former member of the

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, Predrag Bulatović was founding of the

Democratic Party of Socialists The Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro ( cnr, Демократска партија социјалиста Црне Горе, Demokratska partija socijalista Crne Gore, DPS) is a populist political party in Montenegro. A former long-tim ...

. Bulatović served as a member of the

for several terms, since 1996. He was a high-ranking member of the Socialist People's Party, since party founding prior the 1997 split from the Democratic Party of Socialists. Predrag Bulatović led SNP as party president from 2001 to 2006. Since 2001, he was leader of Montenegrin opposition, as the president of the SNP and as unofficial leader of the major opposition bloc Together for Changes. During the Montenegrin independence referendum in 2006, he was most important leader of the unionist bloc, which advocated Montenegro's remaining in the state union with Serbia.

After the 2006 referendum

After the poor result in the

2006 Montenegrin parliamentary election Constitutional Assembly elections were held in the newly-independent Republic of Montenegro on 10 September 2006. Prime Minister Milo Đukanović's Coalition for a European Montenegro (based around the Democratic Party of Socialists) won a major ...

, when the number of seats won by SNP's coalition fell from 30 down to 11, Bulatović resigned from the position of party's president, along with the three vice presidents. In 2015, he became one of the founders of the Democratic People's Party, when the faction of the

Socialist People's Party of Montenegro The Socialist People's Party of Montenegro ( sr, Социјалистичка народна партија Црне Горе, Socijalistička narodna partija Crne Gore, SNP) is a political party in Montenegro. It is a social-democratic and s ...

defected from the political party, and joined the Democratic Front coalition. In 2012, he was one of the founders of the political coalition Democratic Front, since 2015 he has been a member of the presidency of the coalition.

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Montenegrin politicians Socialist People's Party of Montenegro politicians People from Kolašin Serbs of Montenegro 1956 births Living people {{Montenegro-politician-stub