About 200 personalities take part in the inauguration of Jakov Milatovic as president of Montenegro, including President Osmani

At the inauguration, some 200 personalities -- including officials from neighbouring, ambassadors and special envoy of the United States of America (SHBA) -- will take part, respectively.

Montenegrin Parliament deputies, government representatives, judicial authorities, as well as Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, will also attend the ceremony, whom Milatovic firmly defeated in the second round of presidential elections in early April.

The central part of Podgorica's city has been blocked since morning, as well as the way to the airport.

After intoning the national anthem, as well as the Milatovici oath, he will deliver the inaugural speech, after which ceremonial military greetings will be held in the Plato before Parliament.

After that, Milatovic will host guests at a lunch, while in late afternoon hours, in the state-owned Gorica villa, he and his wife will receive about 700 guests.

Among them will be Croatia's President Zoran Milanovic, Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, Albania's president, Bajram Begaj, meanwhile from the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency present will be Zelko Cvianovic and Zelko Komsic.

Serbian President Allexander Vuciq's arrival has not been confirmed.

Of European officials, Oliver Ropke, president of the European Commission's European Economic and Social Committee, already from Great Britain and Germany, special envoys to the Western Balkans, Stuart Pich and Manuel Saracin.

Montenegro's president is elected every five years, while all previous inaugurations were made in Cetina.

Jaje Milatovic, 37-year-old, is the first president who is not from Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), who had power for three decades until August 2020, when he lost the election.

Milatovic, one of the leaders of the movement “Europe now”, founded a year ago, has been in Montenegrin politics for three years when he was appointed minister of the first government after moving by DPS power.

In the presidential race, he had the backing of the ruling parties, the pro-Russian Democratic Front, Democrats and the civic movement URA.

Since the early 1990s, Djukanovic has been prime minister six times and twice president of Montenegro.

After losing power in parliamentary elections nearly three years ago, His DPS also lost elections in Podgorica in October. After losing in presidential elections, Djukanovic resigned from the post of party chairman.

In recent days, Djukanovic and Milatovic held two meetings as part of the duty surrender procedure, after which they stressed that Montenegro is a good example of the democratic transition of power.

The change of state head comes ahead of extraordinary parliamentary elections scheduled for 11 June. They were announced because of the institutional crisis that prevented European integration.

Since the shift of power, for nearly three years, two governments have fallen, while trying to elect a third was unsuccessful. In that period, ethnic tensions have been marked.

During Djukanovic's powers, Montenegro voted for the country's independence in the 2006 referendum. In 2010, Montenegro became a candidate for membership in the European Union, and already in 2017, it entered NATO. / REL