I do not remember when Skopje residents previously acted more nervously, as in the last few days, after being stuck in columns trying to get home. Curses, whistles, threats are part of the drama experienced by the citizens of the capital of Macedonia. By the way, Skopje is a boring place for most of the day, with half-empty streets and crowded cafes. I am not saying that the boulevards are empty, on the contrary, but the intended person has a chance to reach the desired destination within a reasonable time, if he avoids the morning wave.

But there, between 16pm and 17pm, when members of the "glorious" state administration leave their jobs, the situation heats up. Rows of cars in front of "Ramstore", on "Record", on the underpass under the department store "Most", at "Vero" in Taftalidze, "Partizanska", "Ilindenska" etc. "Learn to ride a cattle one", "If I go out I will push your whistle in…" are part of the rich repertoire of messages that fellow citizens send to each other every day at a precisely defined time interval.

However, the traffic can become even more populated if protests are held in the same period. As if the nine rounds of Dante's "Hell" were rightly given a kind of "upgrade and expansion", so there are 12 in number. Circles rise to 15 if protests are organized on key roads in the city, so citizens have the option to stand still and pray that their car coolers do not boil, from "crawling" in first gear. This is exactly what is happening to Skopje in the last three days, after the activists of VMRO-DPMNE decided to protest in a way that literally drives the citizens crazy.

The leadership of the largest opposition party decided to take its members to the streets, due to dissatisfaction with the non-transparency of the negotiation process currently underway between the authorities in Macedonia and Bulgaria. According to VMRO-DPMNE, the government led by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev is negotiating on national identity and language, which is unacceptable for the party.

Meanwhile, complaints from annoyed citizens, who can not get home quickly enough after a hard day's work, have become more frequent on social networks. At the same time, "concerned" analysts, also on social media, trying to channel the dissatisfaction of the working people, began to propose some legal changes that would limit the right to protest, as well as imposing fines on protesters who would block road.

Since in Macedonia the history is eternal and the memory is short, I would like to remind you that just over four years ago, a good part of the ministers and MPs of the ruling majority, together with us ordinary citizens, blocked the center of Skopje every day, trying to overthrow the previous regime. It is true that we usually did it after 18 pm, so as not to upset the citizens during the rush hour, but it is a matter of political "taste" or, if you want, a difference in mentality. However, the way of demonstrating dissatisfaction at that time did not differ much from the atmosphere with the current protests.

The right to protest is inviolable and must not be subject to any restrictions. Maybe I do not like to be stuck in the street, maybe I do not think that the negotiation process between Skopje and Sofia is non-transparent, we can assume that I am not interested in all that, but that is why it is very important for me that the opposition has the right to protest and no one, in any situation, can dispute it.