The Workers' Party or Labour Party (, RP) is minor Montenegrin political party which is part of the right-wing
Democratic Front. Workers' party currently has one MP in 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 ...
, elected from the coalition list
For the Future of Montenegro
For the Future of Montenegro ( Serbian: Za budućnost Crne Gore / За будућност Црне Горе, abbreviated as ''ZBCG'') was a catch-all, mainly cultural conservative and populist pre-election opposition political coalition in Monte ...
in the 2020 election.
History
The party was established on 3 March 2015 by
Janko Vučinić, former union leader. Since its foundation until 2019, RP was a constituent member of the opposition populist
Democratic Front (DF) alliance. In March 2019, the Workers' Party left the coalition with Democratic Front.
On
1 May 2019, the Workers' Party decided to sign an agreement with
Socialist People's Party (SNP),
United Montenegro
United Montenegro (, UCG) is a conservative political party in Montenegro. Party founder and de facto political leader is Goran Danilović, former Minister of Interior Affairs in Government of Montenegro.
History
The United Montenegro was founded ...
(UCG) and
Independent parliamentary group
The Independent Parliamentary Group was a right-wing political organisation in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1920 by Horatio Bottomley, elected in the 1918 general election as an independent Member of Parliament.
In 1919, Bottomley fou ...
to form a big tent political alliance under the name
For the Benefit of All.
Party leader Vučinić died on October 25, 2019. On November 7, the party announced that party vice-president Željka Savković would replace Vučinić as new party member of Parliament of Montenegro. On December 9, the Workers' Party elected Vučinić's son
Maksim Vučinić, an electrical engineer, for the new Party president.
DSI eventually dissolved prior the
parliamentary election in August 2020. In July 2020 United Montenegro, jointly with the Workers' Party and
Independent group in
the parliament (composed of former members of
SNP and
DEMOS parties), agreed to form a new cultural conservative political alliance under the name
Popular Movement (NP), employing a more significant
cultural and
socially conservative
Social conservatism is a political philosophy and variety of conservatism which places emphasis on traditional power structures over social pluralism. Social conservatives organize in favor of duty, traditional values and social institution ...
discourse, supporting
2019-2020 clerical protests in Montenegro and
Serbian Orthodox Church rights in Montenegro, continuing its activity within the
joint electoral list with
Democratic Front and the
SNP.
DF, SNP, Narodni pokret i Prava zajedno na izborima
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Electoral results
Parliamentary elections
References
{{Montenegrin political parties
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Socialist parties in Montenegro