Montenegro President Milo Djukanovic headed for run-off election
Montenegro's veteran president, Milo Djukanovic, will face a run-off on April 2 against a pro-Western former economy minister, after no candidate secured a 50% majority in a first- round election on Sunday, according to a projection based on 99.7% of the vote sample, Reuters reports.
The Center for Monitoring and Research polling group (CEMI) projected Djukanovic would end up with the most votes, with 35.3%, based on results tabulated from a statistical sample of votes cast.
Former economy minister Jakov Milatovic, a Western-educated, pro-European economist, and the deputy-head of the centrist Europe Now party, was projected to win 29.2%.
Milatovic described his result as a victory of "a beautiful, better, just ... and European Montenegro."
"We have made a decisive step towards April 2 .. and a sealed victory," he said.
Andrija Mandic, a pro-Serb and pro-Russian politician and the head of the Democratic Front (DF) alliance, trailed with 19.3%. He announced support of Milatovic in the run-off.
