“I AM still alive,” said Radmila Sekerinska in a shaken voice. “That is a cause for relief, considering the alternative.” The deputy head of Macedonia’s Social Democrats required stitches after being dragged by the hair on the evening of April 27th, when a mob supporting VMRO, the nationalist former ruling party, smashed into the country’s parliament.
Macedonia has been in a state of political crisis for more than two years, but the attack in Skopje may prove a turning point. For weeks VMRO had been filibustering efforts by the Social Democrats and their allies, an ethnic Albanian party, to elect a new speaker. On April 27th they at last managed to vote in Talat Xhaferi, an ethnic Albanian MP. Several hundred VMRO supporters, who had been demonstrating outside parliament, stormed the chamber and assaulted Social Democrats, ethnic Albanians and journalists. At least four deputies were hurt, one badly.
VMRO claimed that parliamentary rules had been violated....Continue reading
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