Social Democratic Party of Croatia

Experts worry that Zoran MIlanovic's comfortable victory of his fourth term as party president of Croatia's strongest opposition party, the centre-left Social Democratic Party, SDP, may signal a monopoly of power within the party.

Montenegro's parliament could debate the dismissal of the speaker, Ranko Krivokapic, as soon as next week, after the ruling coalition submitted a motion to remove him.

Montenegro's political leaders are to meet again on Friday in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the country following the failure of a no-confidence vote in the government last week.

With a new centre-right government on the way, Milanovic, who is still Croatia's acting prime minister, faces the possibility of being forced to step down from the presidency of his centre-left Social Democratic Party, SDP.

Zoran Milanovic said on Monday he was concerned that "people from a criminal, spying, and pro-Ustasha coalition" are coming to power in Croatia.

Croatia's Bridge of Independent Lists, MOST, has received over 3,600 comments in less than 24 hours on a Facebook page after opting to form a government with the centre-right parties.

The political deadlock in Croatia should finally be resolved on Monday when the prime minister-designate will be named, according to key negotiating political parties.

Croatia's governing centre-left coalition, Croatia Grows, on Wednesday said it had accepted the key terms set by the post-election kingmaker party, the Bridge of Independent Lists, MOST.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic will launch a second round of consultations on Monday with party leaders and individual MPs, in order to identify whether any of them have enough parliamentary support to win the mandate to form the country's next government.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic called the first session of the new parliament for Thursday despite the fact that no coalition has yet secured enough backing from MPs to form a government.

The first session will be run by the former chair of the parliament, Josip Leko, from the previous centre-left Social Democratic Party, SDP-led government.