Serbia and Montenegro - Rise to power

Marovic became a member of the Montenegrin Parliament in 1990, and from 1993–99 was parliamentary speaker. He was named chairman of the Montenegrin Parliament's commission for foreign affairs in 1999. One of the founders of the Montenegrin Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), he became the party's vice-president. Marovic won 65 of the 126 seats in Serbia and Montenegro's Parliament in the 7 March 2003 vote; 46 of his electors were Serbian members of Parliament, and 19 Montenegrin.