CEMI: By 5 p.m., the turnout was 52.4 percent

Presidential elections are being held in Montenegro today, and all polling stations have just opened.
Seven candidates will participate in this year's race for president, and polling stations will be open until 8 p.m.
The current president of the country and the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) Milo Đukanović, leader of the New Serbian Democracy Andrija Mandić, president of the Democrats Aleksa Bečić, leader of the United Montenegro Goran Danilović, one of the leaders of the Europe Now Movement Jakov Milatović, MP of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) are participating in the election race ) Draginja Vuksanović-Stanković and influencer Jovan Radulović.
542,154 citizens have the right to vote in the presidential elections - the most in Podgorica - 143,608, and the least in Šavnik - 1,777.
This is the fourth presidential election since the restoration of independence and the eighth since the introduction of the multiparty system.
The candidate who received more than half of the valid votes of the voters who voted will be elected President of Montenegro. If no candidate receives that number of votes, a second round of elections will be held in 14 days - on April 2.
The two candidates who received the largest number of votes will participate in the second election round. In the second round, the candidate who received the highest number of votes will be elected as the president of the state.
Until now, the presidents of Montenegro were Momir Bulatović, Filip Vujanović and Milo Đukanović.
The president is elected for five years.
According to CEMI data, 52.4 percent of voters voted by 5 p.m.
By 5 p.m., 56.1 percent had voted in the central region, 45.4 percent in the southern region, and 53.4 percent in the northern region.
As they announced, at the polling station in Block 5, Podgorica - Direct threats were made to members of the polling committee.
In addition, CEMI said that in Šavnik, in the village of Dubrovsko, one person was prevented from exercising his right to vote.
A member of the Electoral Committee, a representative of the DF did not allow the voter to exercise his right to vote, due to the opinion that this person is not a resident of Šavnik, after which voting was interrupted at Polling Station no. 6, according to CEMI.
As they say, they condemn this behavior of a BO member and call on the Prosecutor's Office to react.
The CDT announced that two more irregularities were recorded. One at the Lozna polling station in Bijelo Polje, where after the cancellation of the ballot he insulted the members of the polling committee, after which he tried to attack them physically.
At the Branko Božović elementary school in Podgorica, the voter took a picture of the ballot after voting, but the ballot was not declared invalid.
M. J.