Montenegro
Parliament
Data on women
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Basic information > About parliament
Speaker
Speaker
Ivan
Brajović
(Male)
Year of birth
1962
Secretary general
Secretary General
Aleksandar
Jovicevic
(Male)
Notes
Additional information about the Secretary General, in particular regarding their term.
Elected on 23 March 2017.
Members
Current number of members, by sex
Men
The number of male parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
57
Women
The number of female parliamentarians who currently hold seats in parliament.
Percentage of women
Calculated by dividing the current number of women by the current number of members.
Age
Average age of all members
Youngest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
Youngest member
Dritan Abazović (Male)
Oldest member (years)
Age at the time of the last election or renewal.
67
Oldest member
Jelisava Kalezić (Female)
Total number of MPs, 46 years of age or older
59
Total per sex
Total of male
68
Total of female
12
Total per age interval
18-20
0
21-30
1
31-40
11
41-45
9
46-50
14
51-60
35
61-70
10
71-80
0
81-90
0
91 and over
0
Number of members, by age
| 18 - 20 | 21 - 30 | 31 - 40 | 41 - 45 | 46 - 50 | 51 - 60 | 61 - 70 | 71 - 80 | 81 - 90 | 91 and over | Totals per gender | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Totals per age interval | 0 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 35 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total <= 45: 21 | Total >= 46: 59 | ||||||||||
| Male | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 32 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 |
| Female | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
Reserved seats and quotas
Electoral quota for women
Quotas to promote the representation of women in parliament.
Notes
Article 39a (1) and (2) of the Law on the Election of Councillors and Representatives (last amended on 21 March 2014) reads as follows: “For the purpose of exercising the gender equality principle, candidates of the less represented gender shall account for no less than 30% of the candidates listed. For every four candidates listed in sequential order (first four candidates, next four candidates etc. to the end of the list) there shall be at least one candidate of the less represented gender.” Article 104 (3) of the same law states the following: “If the term of office for an incumbent councillor or representative of the less represented gender terminates, the next candidate on the list of the less represented gender shall be elected to replace the outgoing incumbent.”
Elections > Historical data on women
Women's suffrage
Date of independence
For countries that become independent after 1940
2006
Women’s right to vote
Women’s right to vote
Year in which women obtained the right to vote
2006
National or local
Suffrage: National or Local
National
Restricted or unrestricted suffrage
Suffrage: Restricted or Universal
Universal
Women’s right to stand for election
Women's right to stand for election
Year in which women obtained the right to stand for election
2006
Detail of restrictions
Stand for Election: Restrictions detail
Universal
First woman in parliament
First woman in parliament
Year in which first woman entered parliament
2006
Notes
Women first gained the right to vote and stand for election in 1946 in the Socialist Republic of Montenegro, the predecessor to modern-day Montenegro, and one of six republics forming the Former Republic of Yugoslavia. Before Montenegro's full independence in 2006, the first woman to enter parliament was in 1946, elected to the Socialist Republic of Montenegro's Constitutional Assembly. Dates above are based on the current Montenegrin parliament, following the June 2006 independence referendum.