Among the protesters, workers demanded a state of social justice and that factories be reopened, and students free education at the state university.
Union leader Srdjan Kekovic said the institutions must be forced to do their job, instead of silently watching as tycoons and foreign investors stretched the state and filled their pockets with the social riches, adding that the government must start creating jobs.
"We will no longer be the transition's losers. Take the money lacking in the budget from those who robbed us and whom you have creatively called the transition's winners," said Kekovic.
He said that if the government could not meet citizens' demands, it should step down.
"The protest we are organising is for a better Montenegro, a state of social justice in which every citizen will have the right to work, to freedom of thought and speech as well as the right to decent living. Before that, we must free it of the shackles of nepotism, corruption and crime."
Student leader Emir Hodzic called on members of every ethnicity and creed, workers, students, professors and other citizens to jointly fight for a free Montenegro.
NGO activist Vanja Calovic called on Prime Minister Igor Luksic to side with the people and the students and not "be a toy in the hands of tycoons."