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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 05:12 PM Aug 2016

'Vote for Trump' Serbian ultra-nationalists chant as Biden visits

Source: Reuters

By Ivana Sekularac and Fedja Grulovic | BELGRADE

Hundreds of Serbian ultra-nationalists protested on Tuesday against U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Belgrade by chanting their support for Donald Trump.

"Vote for Trump! Vote for Trump!" the protesters, wearing T-shirts displaying an image of the U.S. Republican candidate, shouted as they gathered near the Serbian presidency building.

Biden was on a one-day visit to Belgrade before traveling to Kosovo to encourage both countries to do more to normalize their relations.

The United States is highly popular among Kosovars, who regard Washington as their savior for the 1999 air strikes that halted killings of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces waging a counter-insurgency war.

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'Vote for Trump' Serbian ultra-nationalists chant as Biden visits (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2016 OP
Far-right, anti-EU alliance gains key foothold in Serbian Parliament TomCADem Aug 2016 #1
Yes, our populist movements are just two of Hortensis Aug 2016 #3
Hey now, there's an idea ... Greywing Aug 2016 #2
Thanks so very much, Paul Manafort Hekate Aug 2016 #4

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
1. Far-right, anti-EU alliance gains key foothold in Serbian Parliament
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 10:18 PM
Aug 2016
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/news/far-right-anti-eu-alliance-gains-key-foothold-serbian-parliament

A right-wing nationalist alliance which is strongly opposed to Serbia's membership of the EU, supportive of Russia and openly homophobic, has gained a key foothold in the newly-formed Serbian Parliament.

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The DSS was once a moderate pro-European conservative party and part of the anti-Milošević movement, but is now headed by Sanda Rašković Ivić, known as Serbia's Marine Le Pen and opposed to Serbia joining the EU, while Dveri is an openly homophobic movement.

The ultra-nationalist and pro-Russian Serbian Radical Party, led by Vojislav Šešelj, recently acquitted of war crimes by the Hague Tribunal and a one-time Vučić patron, not only re-entered Parliament, but is set to be the main opposition party with 21 seats.

That, it is argued, gives the Radicals a parliamentary platform for rhetoric "inveighing against the EU and Serbia's neighbours."

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. Yes, our populist movements are just two of
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 06:41 PM
Aug 2016

many dangerously angry and irresponsible movements. Fortunately, in the U.S. there is no chance either could have taken complete control. Wish it were the same in other democracies.

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