Djukanovic avoids runoff in decisive presidential win

Montenegro’s ruling party declared leader Milo Djukanovic the winner of Sunday’s presidential election after preliminary projections showed he swept the vote and avoided a runoff.

“Milo Djukanovic is the new president of Montenegro,” said Milos Nikolic, from the Democratic Party of Socialists. “This is a great victory, a historic victory.”

The Center for Monitoring and Research said after a near-complete vote count that Djukanovic won nearly 54 percent while his main opponent, Mladen Bojanic, won 33 percent.