There have
been more mass protests against the rigged Belarusian presidential election
earlier this month and more arrests of protestors and democratic opposition
figures by the regime of the longtime dictator of Belarus . There has also been a threat by Russian Federation tyrant Vladimir Putin to
intervene in the former Soviet
Republic
The
authoritarian Islamist government of Turkey
continues to increase tensions with Greece ,
Cyprus and Egypt over economic rights in the Eastern
Mediterranean, which Turkey
has laid claim to beyond the usual internationally recognized zone.
The ruling
populist center to center-left party is winning the most votes and seats,
according to the official results so far in today’s parliamentary elections in
Montenegro, although fewer seats than it currently holds. A broader coalition government will be
necessary with centrist and smaller center-left parties than the one formed
after the 2016 election. The Democratic
Socialist party has ruled the former Yugoslav
Republic since the breakup of Yugoslavia and since independence from Serbia in
2006. There has been corruption and
increasing authoritarianism, but the ruling party is pro-Western European,
while the main opposition party is pro-Serbian.
They and Serbia are
pro-Russian and oppose Montenegrin integration with Western Europe, while Montenegro became a member of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization in 2017 and thus an ally of the United States . The Montenegrin President has accused Serbia of
interference in the election. There are
minorities of Serbs, Bosniaks, Albanians and Croats in Slavic Montenegro.
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