Montenegro’s long-ruling pro-Western president, Milo Đukanović, said he expected Montenegrins to vote for a “European future” as he cast his ballot on Sunday in the country’s parliamentary election.

Staunchly pro-Western Đukanović has overseen Montenegro’s ongoing efforts to qualify for membership of the European Union and was instrumental in securing its accession to NATO in 2017.

An opposition alliance of mainly Serb nationalist parties seeking closer ties to Serbia and Russia is backed by the powerful Serbian Orthodox Church, which holds daily protests against a law adopted last December that allows the state to seize religious assets whose historical ownership cannot be proven.

Leader of the pro-European opposition coalition “Peace is our Nation,” Aleksa Bečić, also cast his ballot in Montenegro’s capital Podgorica on Sunday, saying his faction would offer voters economic, political and social “peace.”

Opposition leaders and democracy and rights watchdogs have accused Đukanović and his party of running Montenegro as their own fiefdom with links to organized crime, which they deny.

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