In Montenegro, more than 10,000 people gathered for a protest near the parliament building in Pidgorica demanding early general elections and the resignation of the current government headed by Dritan Abazovich.

 According to information from the Balkan service of Radio Liberty, the protest was organized by the "There are many of us" movement, which has the support of the presidential Democratic Party of Socialists. One of the main demands of the demonstrators was the rejection of the amendments submitted to the parliament, which provide for limiting the powers of the president. Critics call these changes, which have not yet entered into force, unconstitutional.

 "We are here for Montenegro, for the European Union! We want elections," chanted those present at the rally on Thursday evening, waving national flags, as well as the flags of the European Union and the United States.

 The speakers made accusations against the parliamentary majority, represented by the pro-Russian Democratic Front, the Ura movement and the Union of Democrats. DPA calls the slim parliamentary majority that introduced the controversial amendments pro-Serbian, and President Milo Djukanovic a pro-Western politician.

 This is already the second major protest in the last six months. The opposition insists that early elections will be the country's way out of the political crisis that followed the collapse of two ruling coalitions this year. Abazovich's government is considered technical after the vote of no confidence passed by his cabinet in August.