What is this world coming to when Crypto renegades can no longer flee to Montenegro using falsified documents? This must somehow be seen as yet another nail in the coffin of Big centralized fiat currency. /s
Being a dictator means [1] to have absolute power. There are dictators that are friendly with the west and others that are not so much. Use of the term is orthogonal to whether or not a given country is an ally (other than that word choice can have ramifications)
Montenegro is regarded by a number of rankings [2] as being a hybrid regime, i.e. somewhere in between authoritarian and democratic. The results of the 2020 election [3] match that.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_regime#Measurement
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Montenegrin_parliamentary...
Note that I have absolutely no idea whether Montenegro is or isn't a dictatorship, but the intention of all commenters here was clear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_government
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state
> A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state[1] in its unity and legitimacy. Depending on the country's form of government and separation of powers, the head of state may be a ceremonial figurehead or concurrently the head of government and more [...]
[edit] In fact... "President is a common title for the head of state in most republics. The president of a nation is, generally speaking, the head of the government and the fundamental leader of the country or the ceremonial head of state." [1]
Anyways interesting stuff.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_(government_title)
Montenegro is a parliamentary republic, and vast majority of Europe is either a parliamentary republic or a constitutional monarchy [0]
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_system#/media/Fil...
There's considerable variations, though, and some starkly exceptional Presidential systems that have an official called a Prime Minister (having both is more typical of a parliamentary republic).
1. Presidential republics - President is both head of state and head of government. No Prime Minister. Examples: US, most Latin American countries
2. Parliamentary republics - President is head of state, Prime Minister is head of government. President is mostly a symbolic figurehead with little real power; if they have any real power at all, it is generally only exercisable in times of constitutional crisis. Examples: Ireland, Malta, Germany, Austria, Israel
3. Semi-presidential republics. President is head of state, Prime Minister is head of government. Both have real substantive powers. Often, the PM is in charge of domestic policy, the President is in charge of military and foreign affairs. Examples: France, Russia, Finland (traditionally at least, it has been becoming more parliamentary)
Montenegro is officially considered parliamentary not semipresidential. However, the boundary between the two is not always clearcut - there is a near infinity of ways to divide power between a President and PM, and some parliamentary republics have much more powerful presidents than others
There are also oddball republics which don’t fit into any of those categories, like Switzerland (collective head of state) or San Marino (two equal heads of state at the same time)
Montenegro is definitely not like many other European countries. If anything it is like a region of one European country, namely Sicily
https://www.occrp.org/en/poy/2015/
https://leaderssummit.medium.com/joe-biden-milo-djukanovic-t...