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Montenegro
Republic of Montenegro
Republika Crna Gora
Note: In assembly elections on October 16, 2016, the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) won a plurality with 36 of 81 seats. In second place was an electoral alliance, the Democratic Front, led by the New Democratic Force, which won 18 seats. No other party or alliance secured more than 9 seats. After efforts by Prime Minister Milo Markovič (DPS) to create a governing coalition failed, the DPS formed a coalition government with four small parties under Deputy Prime Minister Dusko Markovic (DPS). Markovic was formally named prime minister on November 9, and his government approved by the legislature on November 28.
Political Status: An autonomous principality formally independent of the Ottoman Empire in 1878; declared a kingdom in 1910; incorporated as ...