The law on presidential elections was passed on 27 December 2007, requiring candidates to collect the signatures of 1.5% of registered voters in order to run.

[1] The ruling Democratic Party of Socialists nominated the current president of Montenegro, Filip Vujanović.

He held demonstrations in the nation's capital of Podgorica on 24 February 2008 against Kosovo's recent unilateral declaration of independence.

[4] Professor Blagota Mitrić of the Faculty of Law of University of Montenegro had announced that he would run for president, yet he did not manage to collect enough signatures to become an official candidate.

Polls and analysts claimed Vujanović would most surely win the largest number of votes and face-off with Medojevic in the second round.