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Dritan Abazović

prime-minister of Republic of Montenegro 2022–2023

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Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ16353146 ↗
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Dritan Abazović (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Дритан Абазовић, Albanian: Dritan Abazi; born 25 December 1985) is a Montenegrin politician who served as Prime Minister of Montenegro and as acting Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2022 to 2023. An ethnic Albanian, he heads the United Reform Action party. He previously served as deputy prime minister in the cabinet of Zdravko Krivokapić from 2020 until 2022.

Abazović is the first ethnic Albanian and first Muslim to have served as Prime Minister of Montenegro.

Early life, education and early career

Abazović was born on 25 December 1985 in Ulcinj, Montenegro. Abazović is an ethnic Albanian. Having finished elementary and secondary school in Ulcinj, he graduated at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Sarajevo, becoming a valedictorian and winner of the "Golden Badge" and "Golden Charter" of the University of Sarajevo. He obtained a master's degree in international relations from the University of Montenegro Faculty of Political Sciences in 2008. In 2019, he finished his PhD in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Sarajevo, having defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Global Politics—Ethical Aspects of Globalization".

He has worked as a high school teacher in Ulcinj, teaching the sociology of culture, communication and the history of religion.

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