At the session of the Montenegrin Assembly in Cetinje, the minority government of Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic was voted this Thursday, ending the three-month technical mandate of the Government of Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapic, who received a no-confidence vote on February 4th. 

The new parliamentary majority, which voted for the Government, previously elected Danijela Djurovic as Speaker of Parliament, which unblocked the work of the legislature after almost three months. 

For the election of the new Government voted 45 MPs out of a total of 81 in the Montenegrin Parliament, while 3 representatives of the Social Democrats were against. MPs from the parties that make up the government from the URA Civic Movement, the pro-Serbian Socialist People's Party (SNP), the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the national parties of Albanians, Bosniaks and Croats, as well as members of the Democratic Party of Socialists voted for Abazovic's cabinet. 

The goal of the new government is to unblock the process of Montenegrin European integration and the election of leading positions in the Judiciary, said Prime Minister Abazovic. MPs from the Pro-Serb Democratic Front and Democrats, who strongly oppose the DPS-backed minority government, did not attend the session. 

These parties, along with Abazovic's URA movement and the SNP, have been in power since the August 2020 elections, when three decades later they moved the DPS into opposition. A year and a half after the election, due to political disputes, that parliamentary majority disbanded and its smallest member, Abazovic's URA party, entered the process of forming a minority government with the support of Djukanovic's DPS. Therefore, the Democratic Front and the Democrats accuse Abazovic of betraying the electoral will of the citizens and demand new elections.