No less than three Serbian MPs have been injured after smoke bombs and flares have been thrown within the nation’s parliament.
Chaos erupted as politicians have been scheduled to vote on a legislation that will improve funding for college training.
However opposition events insisted this was unlawful and the parliament ought to first affirm the resignation of Serbia’s prime minister Milos Vucevic and his authorities.
Members of the opposition blew whistles and held up a banner studying “Serbia has risen so the regime would fall!”
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Video footage from the meeting corridor confirmed a conflict first between politicians, and later flares and smoke bombs being thrown. Serbian media stated eggs and water bottles have been additionally flung.
Parliamentary speaker Ana Brnabic stated one of many injured politicians was in a severe situation and accused the opposition of being a “terrorist gang”.
The incident displays a deep political disaster in Serbia, the place months-long anti-corruption protests have shaken the populist authorities.
Mr Vucevic resigned as prime minister in January as authorities confronted protests over a concrete cover collapse in November that killed 15 individuals. Critics blamed the collapse on rampant corruption.
Parliament should affirm the prime minister’s resignation for it to take impact. Opposition events have insisted that the federal government has no authority to go new legal guidelines.
