PARLY Montenegro: What is said in parliament?

PARLY is available only in the official language.

Terms Mode: Search for topics and terms that interest you. The preview shows how frequent the term is used in debates overall. 

Speaker Mode: Find out what your member of parliament is saying about the topics you care about. 

Parties Mode: Find out which party is talking about what topics and terms more often.

Gender Mode: Find out what terms and topics are talked about by female as opposed to male MPs and vice-versa.

Two ways to display the results: Absolute Hits show the total number of hits within the selected year, while Relative Distribution shows the hits for the selected filter as a share of all hits for the searched term.

By clicking on the data points, you can click & read through the speeches in which the searched term was mentioned, and dig into the whole parliamentary sessions.

Session & Transcript Collection: Metadata for all available plenary sessions of the Montenegrin Parliament was retrieved via the parliament's API (api.skupstina.me) on 22 December 2025. This yielded 397 sessions covering January 2021 through December 2025.

Speech Extraction: Individual speeches were extracted from each session via a dedicated API endpoint returning subtitle data from video recordings, capturing speaker name, speech text, and precise start timestamps. This yielded 31,910 speeches. Speech data was complemented by MP biographical data (party group, electoral list, gender) loaded from a separately prepared file, sourced from the parliament's website and Wikipedia. 11% of speeches could not be matched to an MP record.

Translation of Session Titles: Session titles were translated from Montenegrin to English using Google Gemini (gemini-3-flash-preview). 

Gender information for speakers was already included in the MP dataset and did not require a separate LLM step.

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Version 2.0 - March 2026

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