Montenegrin police used pepper spray to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital Podgorica who rallied against the adoption of law to limit presidential powers and the ruling coalition's failure to appoint judges to the constitutional court.
Protesters, largely members of pro-Montenegrin organisations, who rallied under the slogan "We Are Many," pelted police in front of the parliament building with rocks and signal flares, and attempted to break through a police barrier, before they were pushed away.
Montenegro has been in political deadlock for months after its constitutional court was left without a quorum due to retirement of judges. The 81-seat parliament in which a heterogeneous coalition of pro-European and pro-Serb parties has a majority of one deputy, could not agree to appoint the new judges.