Djukanovic introduces a state of emergency?

The announcement by Montenegrin President and DPS opposition leader Milo Djukanovic that if Metropolitan Joanikije's enthronement is not removed from Cetinje, he will join the protest against the act is an additional problem for the police on how to secure a rally attended by the country's first man, a protected statesman, Pobjeda reports.
"In such a situation, if they start breaking the protest by force, they come to a very awkward position which can be interpreted as violently endangering the right to freedom of speech and greater disturbance of public order and peace - Djukanovic, as Montenegrin President and Chairman of the Defense Council and Security, under such circumstances can request the declaration of a state of emergency - in Montenegro or in a part of its territory", the paper writes.
According to the Constitution, the decision on the state of emergency in a part of the territory is made by the Parliament of Montenegro. In the current convocation, the parliamentary majority has only one vote more.
"If the Assembly is not able to meet, the decision on declaring a state of emergency is made by the Defense and Security Council and submitted to the Assembly for confirmation, as soon as it is able to meet", the Montenegrin Constitution states.
This possibility, the paper writes, can certainly significantly curb violent actions of the police, in the event that such a command arrives without a reasonable reason or on the basis of a wrong assessment of the security risk. Public and secret police operatives are in Cetinje every day and trying to make a plan.
"They are thinking about blocking the entrance to Cetinje, blocking the main roads to the Cetinje monastery, but the problem is how to implement the blockade when the people...

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