Parliament approves a coalition government composed on the center-right and pro-Europe Europe Now!, the pro-Serbian and pro-Russian For a Better Montenero party, the center-left Together! Party and five parties that represent the Albanian minority. Prime Minister Milojko Spajic (of the Europe Now! party) will lead the coalition. For a Better Montenegro agreed to join in exchange for the speakership of parliament.

Parliamentary election. Europe Now Movement (PES) wins 25% of the vote, the largest share according to polling after voting. The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) wins about 24% of the vote and also claims a victory. The conservative pro-Serbian For the Future of Montenegro won 14.7%, while the centrist coalition of URA and Democratic Montenegro, led by outgoing Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic and former parliament speaker Aleksa Becic, took 12.3%. According to exit polls the Bosniak Party took 6.9%, while the Albanian Forum, Albanian Alliance, Croatian Civic Initiative and pro-Serbian Socialistic Peoples Party all passed the threshold to enter parliament. No party has a majority of seats and will need coalition partners to form a government.

Jakov Milatović is elected president with 60% of the vote, defeating Milo Dukanović.

Djukanovic wins about 35% of the votes in the presidential election, and will face former economy minister Jakov Milatovic, a Western-educated, pro-European economist and the deputy-head of the centrist Europe Now party, who was projected to win 29.2% in a run-off on 4/2/23. Andrija Mandic, a pro-Serb and pro-Russian politician and the head of the Democratic Front (DF) alliance, won 19.3% and said he supported Milatovic in the run-off.

Protests in front of parliament between the pro-Western and pro-Serb, pro-Russia groups as parliament votes strip the country's pro-Western president of a decisive role in appointing the prime minister. The law was pushed forward by the pro-Serb and pro-Russian majority in the parliament, angering the pro-Western opposition. The disputed law was passed on Monday by 41 lawmakers in the 80-member parliament.

Government loses no-confidence vote. Only one legislator votes for the government of Prime Minister Dritan Abazović and thirty abstain. The legislators objected to the government’s recent agreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church. While Abazović said it would help to heal divisions in the country, others thought the agreement served Serbian interests. Abazović says the vote was engineered by “criminals” who were fighting his anti-corruption campaign. President Milo Djukanovic has long been a fierce opponent of the church and wants to nationalize its properties.

Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia frustrated at EU failure to allow them to proceed with their applications after many years of waiting.

No-confidence vote passes, ending the Krivokapić government. The “Black on White” coalition, which originally supported Krivokapić’s government in December 2020, votes in favour of the no-confidence motion, together with the Democratic Party of Socialists and several smaller opposition parties. The leader of the coalition, Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazović, proposed a minority government centered around “Black on White” in January. Abazović subsequently becomes the prime minister.

This is the deadline the pro-Serbian ruling coalition set for the departure of Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić by the pro-Serbian Democratic Front.

Krivokapić proposes instead that Abazović become the first deputy prime ministers, and two other deputy prime ministers will be appointed.

The Democratic Front and Democratic Montenegro, the strongest of the many parties in the ruling coalition, demand that their members be cabinet ministers in place of the non-political ministers Krivokapić has appointed.

Large protests against changes to a law, passed in 2019, that would nationalize hundreds of monasteries run by the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC). The government has amended the law so that the SPC would continue to run and own the properties. About a third of the population identifies as Serbian.

Parliament approves a new coalition government of center-right, pro-Serb minority and green parties, formally ending three decades of Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (DPS) rule in the country. New Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić vows to dismantle a state apparatus built by the DPS, and root-out corruption and organized crime.

Krivokapić formally becomes prime minister-designate.

Krivokapić starts talks with parliamentary majority in Montenegro about forming the new government.

The three coalitions of the new majority in parliament officially support Zdravko Krivokapić to be prime minister, and elect Aleksa Bečić new President of the Parliament.

The leaders of three opposition coalitions, For the Future of Montenegro, Peace is Our Nation and In Black and White, agree to form an expert government and to continue to work on the European Union accession process. The pro-Serbian Democratic Front is the largest partner within For the Future of Montenegro. President Djukanovic is a member of the Democratic Party of Socialists.

Parliamentary elections. The pro-Western Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) of President Milo Djukanovic is slightly ahead of the pro-Serb and pro-Russian alliance For the Future of Montenegro in preliminary exit polls.

Democratic Party of Socialists wins 35% of the vote and 30 seats in parliament. For the Future of Montenegro wins 32% of the vote and 26 seats in the 81-seat chamber.

Montenegro confirms its first case of COVID-19.

Protests over new law on religion spread to Serbia.

Protestors vandalize parliament building after parliament approves a law requiring religious groups to prove that they owned their property before 1918, when Montenegro joined the Kingdom of Serbia, which itself was merged into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes three days later, on 1 December 1918. At the time, the country was occupied by Austria Hungary, the royal family was in exile, and the legislature, the Podgorica Assembly, an ad hoc body created by Serbian authorities, proclaimed the unification with the kingdom. Critics, mainly Serbs, complain that the law discriminates against the Serbian Orthodox Church, the largest religious body in Montenegro. About a third of Montenegrins identify as Serbs.

Continuing protests calling for Djukanovic’s resignation.