'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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TomCADem
(17,390 posts)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-Miloević movement, but is now headed by Sanda Raković 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 eelj, 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)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.
Greywing
(1,124 posts)"it" (ie tRump) can be deported there! That would be GREAT!