Protesters threw firecrackers and flares at the police, while the police fired tear gas and smoke bombs at the crowd.
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Police said 15 policemen were hurt, while 24 protesters sought doctors’ help because of tear gas.
The Front warned that the “whole of Montenegro will come” if Djukanovic’s government does not resign by Saturday.
A week ago police used teargas to disperse several hundred opposition activists trying to protest outside parliament despite a protest ban, and on Sunday protesters hurled stones and used pepper spray against police, who retaliated with teargas.
An leader of the Democratic Front opposition group, Andrija Mandic, was been questioned by police after the rally, along with another protest leader, Slaven Radunovic. Opposition leader Nebojsa Medojevic shouted “the dictator must fall”, referring to Mr Djukanovic, who has been in power for 25 years and whom opposition accuse of authoritarian rule.
In September, protesters also rallied to press their demands fir the creation of an interim government along with early parliamentary elections.
“We appeal to citizens not to allow the destruction of constitutional order and to demand the formation of a national unity government”, the memorandum reads.
Djukanovic has been in power in Montenegro off and on, serving as both the prime minister and president, since 1991.
The prime minister has rejected calls for his resignation, saying instead he would call early elections after December’s meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), when Montenegro is expected to be invited to join the military alliance of 28 western nations.
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The pro-Serbia elements of the opposition also oppose Montenegrin recognition of Kosovo, a majority ethnic-Albanian country which declared independence from Serbia in 2008.
