Prepared by: Vladimir Jovanović
The Government of Montenegro recently adopted the Information on the Representation of Minority Peoples and Other Minority National Communities in Local Self-Government Bodies, Companies and Public Institutions, the founder of which is the Capital, the Capital or the Municipality.
The author of the information is the Ministry of Justice, Human and Minority Rights – Directorate for Human and Minority Rights, Directorate for National and Ethnic Minorities.
The research was initiated in July 2019, and at the end of that year it was submitted to the coordinators from local self-government bodies who were obliged to deliver it to all employees in local self-government bodies, companies and public institutions founded by the Capital, Capital or Municipality, – in order to ANONYMOUSLY DECLARE about national affiliation.
It is stated that the situation caused by the global pandemic COVID-19 and measures taken to prevent its spread, caused a delay in the collection of survey data, and thus the processing of necessary data for information, which is why its adoption is provided by the Ministry of Justice for 2021..
Out of a total of 3,780 completed questionnaires in 224 bodies, as many as were covered by this Information, the employees, in the national sense, declared themselves as:
Montenegrin 1930 (51.1%), Serb 711 (18.8%), Muslim 76 (2.0%), Bosniak 537 (14.2%), Albanian 242 (6,4%), Roma 45 (1.2%), Egyptian 10 (0.3%), Croat 31 (0.8%), Yugoslav 6 (0.2%), Macedonian 4 (0.1%), Hungarian 1, Russian 1, Slovenian 1, did not declare 72 (1.9%), no data 96 (2.5%), other nations 13 (0.3%), regional affiliation 4 (0.1%).
However, in the Information, WE DID NOT FIND INDIVIDUAL DATA FOR SIX MONTENEGRIN MUNICIPALITIES: Capital of Cetinje, Bar, Kotor, Mojkovac, Petnjica, Plužine.
Data for 18 Montenegrin municipalities and city municipalities are as follows:
In the Municipality of Andrijevica, out of a total of 114 questionnaires, in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 64 (56.1%), Serb 42 (36.8%), Russian 1 (0.9%), Yugoslav 1 (0.9%), other nations 2 (1.8%), did not declare 3 (2.6%), no data 1 (0.9%).
In the Municipality of Berane, out of a total of 527 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 87 (16.5%), Serb 382 (72.5%), Muslim 18 (3.4%), Bosniak 10 (1.9%), did not declare 26 (4.9%), no data 2 (0.4), other nations 2 (0.4%).
In the Municipality of Bijelo Polje, out of a total of 157 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 82 (52.2%), Serb 17 (10.8%), Muslim 17 (10.8%) ), Bosniak 30 (19.1%), Yugoslav 2 (1.3%), did not declare 8 (5.1%), other nations 1 (0.6%).
In the Municipality of Budva, out of a total of 32 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 19 (59.4%), Serb 11 (34.4%), no data 1 (3.1%), other nations 1 (3.1%).
In the Municipality of Danilovgrad, out of a total of 207 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 189 (91.3%), Serb 8 (3.9%), Hungarian 1 (0.5), Macedonian 1 (0.5), Muslim 2 (1%), Roma 1 (0.5%), no data 4 (1.9%), did not declare 1 (0.5%).
In the City Municipality of Golubovci, out of a total of 33 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 32 (97.0%), Serb 1 (3%).
In the Municipality of Gusinje, out of a total of 50 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Albanian 12 (24.0%), Bosniak 2 (76.0%).
In the Municipality of Herceg-Novi, out of a total of 153 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 34 (22.2%), Serb 51 (33.3%), Muslim 1 (0.7) %), Roma 3 (2.0%), Albanian 1 (0.7%), Bosniak 2 (1.3%), Croat 3 (2.0%), Yugoslav 1 (0.7%), no data 51 (33.3%), did not declare 2 (1.3%), other nations 1 (0.7%), regional affiliation 3 (2.0%).
In the Municipality of Kolašin, out of a total of 49 questionnaires in the national sense, employees declared themselves as: Montenegrins 32 (65.3%), Serbs 13 (26.5%), did not declare 3 (6.1%), other nations 1 (2.0%).
In the Municipality of Nikšić, out of a total of 544 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrins 490 (90.1%), Serbs 28 (5.1%), Muslim 1 (0.2%), Roma 4 (0.7%), Egyptian 6 (1.1%), no data 3 (0.6%), did not declare 11 (2.0%), other nations 1 (0, 2%).
In the Municipality of Pljevlja, out of a total of 187 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 48 (25.7%), Serb 106 (56.7%), Muslim 12 (6.4%), Bosniak 7 (3.7%), no data 8 (4.3%), did not declare 6 (3.2%).
In the Capital City of Podgorica, out of a total of 826 questionnaires in the national sense, employees declared themselves as: Montenegrins 691 (83.7%), Serb men 31 (3.8%), Muslim 13 (1.06%) ), Roma 21 (2.5%), Albanian 33 (4.0%), Bosniak 16 (1.9%), Croat 2 (0.2%), Yugoslav 2 (0.2%), Macedonian 3 (0.4%), Slovenian 1 (0.1%), no data 7 (0.8%), did not declare 6 (0.7%).
In the Municipality of Rožaje, out of a total of 461 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 2 (0.4%), Bosniak 427 (92.6%), Serb 4 (0.9%), Muslim 9 (2.0%), Albanian 11 (2.4%), no data 3 (0.7%), did not declare 5 (1.1%).
In the Municipality of Šavnik, out of a total of 45 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 44 (97.8%), Serb 1 (2.2%).
In the Municipality of Tivat, out of a total of 148 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 91 (61.5%), Serb 14 (9.5%), Croat 26 (17.6%), Roma 1 (0.7%), Muslim 2 (1.4%), no data 13 (8.8%), regional affiliation 1 (0.7%).
In the City Municipality of Tuzi, out of a total of 33 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 3 (9.1%), Albanian 23 (69.7%), Bosniak 7 (21.2%).
In the Municipality of Ulcinj, out of a total of 197 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 6 (3,0%), Albanian 162 (82.2%), Serb 1 (0.5%), Egyptian 4 (2.0%), Roma 15 (7.6%), Muslim 1 (0.5%), no data 3 (1.5%), did not declare 1 (0,5%), other nations 4 (2.0%).
In the Municipality of Žabljak, out of a total of 28 questionnaires in the national sense, the employees declared themselves as: Montenegrin 26 (92.9%), Serb 2 (7.1%).