Political Public Opinion: “Presidential election”, March 2008

MARCH’S KEY FIGURES
Period March 14-20, 2008
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Turn out estimation for presidential election: From 71 to 77.2%.

Voting for: Filip VUJANOVIC 52.8%; Andrija MANDIC 19.1%; Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC 18.3%; Srdan MILIC 9.8%.

Safe vote: 1. Filip VUJANOVIC; 2. Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC; 3. Andrija MANDIC; 4. Srdan MILIC.

Confidence in institutions: 1. Serbian Orthodox Church; 2. President of Montenegro; 3. Government of Montenegro; 4. Montenegrin Police; 5. Montenegrin Parliament; 7. Montenegrin Judiciary; 7. Montenegrin Orthodox Church; 8. Political Parties in Montenegro.

Confidence in politicians and public persons: 1. Vanja CALOVIC (Director of the Network for Affirmation of Nongovernmental Sector MANS); 2. Milo DUKANOVIC (Prime Minister); 3. Filip VUJANOVIC (President of the Republic); 4. Gordana DUROVIC (Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration); 5. Vujica LAZOVIC (Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy); 6. Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC (Presidential candidate and President of the Movement for Changes PzP); 7. Ranko KRIVOKAPIC (President of the Parliament); 8. Srdan MILIC (Presidential candidate of the Socialist People’s Party SNP); 9. Andrija MANDIC (Presidential candidate and President of the Serb People’s Party SNS); 10. Ranko KADIC (President of the Democratic Serb Party DSS); (...) 18. Vasilj SINISTAJ (President of the Albanian Alternative).

Membership in the EU: YES 78.2%; NO 9.1%.

Membership in NATO: NO 43.1%; YES 33.1%.

Co-operation with The Hague Tribunal: YES 47.2%; NO 31.6%.

THE CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (CEDEM) is a NGO established as a non-profitable association of citizens, of which main goal is to advance and spread conscience on importance of proper and successful democratic transition; to research, analyze and follow process of transition; to influence by its activities, as much as it is possible, on transitional process in Montenegro; to contribute in strengthening of civil society and democratization process as a whole.

“Montenegrin Public Opinion” is one of the most important CEDEM’s projects. In the period 1999-2006, the NGO has conducted 26 surveys. Most of them (20 in total), as individual projects, were dedicated to certain aspects of the reform process in Montenegro or to especially topical issues within Montenegrin society.

CEDEM’s Department for Empiric Researches, in charge of the project “Montenegrin Public Opinion”, is headed by Veselin Pavićević, Ph.D., Professor of Law specialised in Electoral Systems and Election Law at the Faculty of Economy in Podgorica.