Montenegrin nationalist protests (2020–2022)

2020–2022 Montenegrin Anti-Government protests
2020–2022 Montenegrin Anti-Government protests
Part of 2022 Montenegrin crisis
Date	5 September 2020 – 4 February 2022
Location	Montenegro
Caused by	Proposal of the new citizenship law; Dissatisfaction with the government; Accusations for census manipulation; Selective justice; Denial of Srebrenica Genocide; Attempts to disband Faculty of Montenegrin language and literature; Lack of transparency; Political revanchism and nepotism; Government mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic; Serbian Orthodox Church influence on the Government;
Goals	Prevention of the adoption of the new citizenship law; Resignation of the government; Relocation of the enthronement ceremony for Joanikije II from Cetinje elsewhere.;
Methods	Motorcades, Protest marches, road block protests, civil disobedience
Resulted in	The majority of MPs in the Parliament voted in favor of adopting the Resolution of Srebrenica Genocide; Vladimir Leposavić dismissed from the post of Minister of Justice and Human and Minority Rights; Government and Political crisis; Interpellation for dismissal of 3 additional ministers passed in the Parliament; Government of Zdravko Krivokapić voted out in a no-confidence vote;
Parties
Anti-government protesters Montenegrin nationalists; Sovereignists; Anti-fascists; Civic Initiative 21 May; NGO "Montenegrin Spring 2021"; Opposition parties involved Patriotic Komitas Union of Montenegro; Liberal Party; Supporting opposition parties Democratic Party of Socialists; Social Democrats; Social Democratic Party; Bosniak Party; New Left; Other minority parties;	Government Law enforcement; Ministry of Internal Affairs; Government parties Democratic Front; Democratic Montenegro; Socialist People's Party; United Reform Action; True Montenegro;
Lead figures
	Tatjana Knežević-Perišić; Andrija Popović; Miodrag Živković Zdravko Krivokapić; Dritan Abazović; Sergej Sekulović; Zoran Brđanin

In April 2021, a wave of protests, dubbed by its organizers as the Montenegrin Spring, or the Montenegrin Response or Montenegrin Answer, was launched in Montenegro against the announced adoption of regulations that will make it easier to acquire Montenegrin citizenship, but also take away the citizenship of some Montenegrin emigrants, which the protesters consider as an "attempt of the government to change the ethnic structure of Montenegro" and against the Krivokapić Cabinet, which the protesters accuse of being "treacherous" and the "satellite of Serbia".