The president and former prime minister of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic, has resigned from the position of chairman of the Democratic Party of Socialists.
Djukanovic has been at the head of this party since 1998 until this Wednesday when he resigned. This resignation comes a few days after he lost the presidential election.
In the presidential elections held on April 2, according to the preliminary results of the Center for Monitoring and Research (CEMI), based on 90 percent of the votes counted, Jakov Milatović won about 60.2 percent of the votes in the second round of the presidential elections, while the opponent his, the current president, Milo Djukanovic, received about 39.8 percent.
Djukanovic has been at the helm of Montenegrin politics for more than 33 years. He has been a key ally of the West in opposing Russian influence.