Political Public Opinion: “Presidential election”, February 2008

FEBRUARY’S KEY FIGURES
Period February 15-20, 2008
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Turn out estimation for presidential election — First round: 71.1%.

Presidential election — First round: Filip VUJANOVIC 49.5%; Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC 21.2%; Andrija MANDIC 14.8%; Srdan MILIC 9.9%.

Turn out estimation for presidential election — Second round: 62.1%.

Presidential election — Second round VUJANOVIC/MEDOJEVIC: Filip VUJANOVIC 63.2%; Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC 36.8%.

Presidential election — Second round VUJANOVIC/MANDIC: Filip VUJANOVIC 68.5%; Andrija MANDIC 31.5%.

Presidential election — Second round MEDOJEVIC/MANDIC: Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC 67.3%; Andrija MANDIC 32.7%.

Confidence in institutions: 1. Serbian Orthodox Church; 2. President of Montenegro; 3. Government of Montenegro; 4. Montenegrin Police; 5. Montenegrin Parliament; 6. Montenegrin Orthodox Church; 7. Montenegrin Judiciary; 8. Political Parties in Montenegro.

Satisfaction with the Government of Montenegro: Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied 40.6%; mostly satisfied 21.3%; very dissatisfied 16.0%; mostly dissatisfied 15.4%; very satisfied 6.7%.

The change in the position of Prime Minister, and reconstruction of the Government of Montenegro: Good for Montenegro 38.9%; will not change anything 32.2%; bad for Montenegro 28.9%.

Confidence in politicians and public persons: 1. Zeljko STURANOVIC (Resigning Prime Minister); 2. Vanja CALOVIC (Director of the Network for Affirmation of Nongovernmental Sector MANS); 3. Filip VUJANOVIC (President of the Republic); 4. Milo DUKANOVIC (Prime Minister Designate and President of the Democratic Party of Socialists DPS); 5. Gordana DUROVIC (Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration); 6. Nebojsa MEDOJEVIC (Presidential candidate and President of the Movement for Changes PzP); 7. Srdan MILIC (Presidential candidate of the Socialist People’s Party SNP); 8. Vujica LAZOVIC (Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy); 9. Ranko KRIVOKAPIC (President of the Parliament); 10. Andrija MANDIC (Presidential candidate and President of the Serb People’s Party SNS); 11. Ranko KADIC (President of the Democratic Serb Party DSS); (...) 19. Vasilj SINISTAJ (President of the Albanian Alternative).

Level of corruption: 1. Customs; 2. Judiciary; 3. Health services; 4. Public Prosecutor; 5. Police; 6. Municipality services; 7. State services; 8. High education (University); 9. Sports; 10. Medias (TV, radio, newspapers); 11. High school system; 12. Primary school system.

Membership in the European Union: YES 72.8%; NO 9.2%.

Membership in NATO: NO 44.2%; YES 29.5%.

Co-operation with The Hague Tribunal: YES 49.2%; NO 29.8%.

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.