Certain political candidates didn’t get the approximate number of votes compared to the number of signatures they collected to run for the country’s presidency. Nevertheless, they were paid €25.ooo from the state budget in order to fund their election campaigns.
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Even though all presidential candidates submitted signatures of at least 1.5% of registered voters in the presidential election (around 8.100 signatures), some of them weren’t even close to that number.
The presidential candidate, Jovan Radulovic, got 2.574 votes in the election (0.76%), while Goran Danilovic got 4.659 votes. Regardless of this fact, they received €25.000 to fund their election campaigns. And it’s not the first time we’re having this situation.
According to the NGO ‘CEMI’, there’s a need to revise the way of funding the presidential election campaign, proposing that Montenegro should look at the example of the developed European countries.
