Milo Djukanovic - President-elect of Montenegro in 2018. According to experts, he has actually led the country over the past three decades. Most of the planned work is related to European integration.
Milo Djukanovic - Montenegrin statesman and politician. In almost two decades of his active political career, he not only managed to separate Montenegro from Yugoslavia, but also raised the country's economy to a European level.
Biography
Born 02.15. 1962 in Niksic. His family is considered one of the oldest in Montenegro. After high school, he entered the Faculty of Economics at Veljko Vlahović University. In his student days he was a good basketball player. Many qualities developed in training, he came in handy in political life.
In 1986, Milo Djukanovic became a member of the Presidium of Socialist Youth. For straightforwardness, his comrades called him a "razor." Together with his friends, a young and ambitious man decided to push back the old power. The campaigns were called the "anti-bureaucratic revolution."
At 26, he becomes one of the actual leaders of Montenegro, although he had not yet held official posts by this time. In 1991 he became Prime Minister. After 6 years, he is running for president. In the first round, he lost 2, 000 votes to his rival, and in the second - he was ahead of him. On November 25, 2002, Milo Djukanovic resigned as president in order to return as prime minister.
The family politician is considered one of the richest in the Bakans. This has been confirmed by numerous audits conducted by independent companies. On the accounts of the president himself is about $ 15 million, family property - 10 times more.
Milo Djukanovic in 2018
In April 2018, a presidential campaign was launched. Among the favorites was the leader of the ruling party. Politicians say that the election campaign has never been so short - it started a couple of weeks before the vote. The presidential election was held in the shadow of the 2016 parliamentary elections. Then the authorities accused the opposition of attempting a coup. Russia and Serbia were also accused of involvement in the attempt.
The start of the presidential campaign coincided with the decision of the government to declare one Russian diplomat "persona non grata" and deprive the accredited honorary consul of the Russian Federation.
On April 16, it became known that he won in the first and second rounds of the election. Based on the calculation of the data, it became clear that Milo Djukanovic scored almost 55% of the vote. The president was elected for five years, but the power and leadership of the state over the past decades have been in the hands of a politician, regardless of his position.
