A number of residents of Mali Brdo blocked the roundabout near this Podgorica settlement for half an hour to express their dissatisfaction with the prices at which they are being asked to purchase state land in the process of legalizing illegal houses and other structures.
Residents of Mali Brdo will block the roundabout connecting Moskovska Street with 13th and 18th July Streets on Saturday, January 24th and Sunday, January 25th from 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM.
Local representative Gordan Grdinić told "Vijesti" that hardship forced them to block, and that they do not dispute the fact that they have usurped state land, but that the purchase price per square meter, from 132 euros in 2022, could now reach 300 euros.
As he says, only after that would the process of legalizing the facility begin.
"It is impossible to achieve legalization at this price, and it may even be higher. It doesn't matter that they are offering repayment over 30 years, these are huge figures and the people will be in debt slavery. We have addressed the institutions and submitted a request and petition to the Minister of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property, Slaven Radunović, to include in Article 20 of the Law on the Legalization of Illegal Objects, which concerns the purchase, the position and possibility for municipalities to provide subsidies to citizens to help with legalization. We are also planning to blockade the Millennium Bridge, although we don't want to, but we have to because they don't see us any other way," Grdinić emphasized.
Grdinić added that a large number of houses on this location and state land were built due to poverty and other similar reasons.
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He explained that they had already approached Radunović with these requests, but there had been no response, and that they also wanted a meeting with the Mayor of the Capital, Saša Mujović, to resolve the problem.
A similar message was sent by Dražen Ivanović, a resident of Mali Brdo, who emphasized that they were not opposed to the payment, but that no one had responded to their letters so far.
"The current prices are huge and unrealistic, we cannot pay 100.000 euros for 500 square meters," said Ivanovic.
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