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Serbia's parliament breaks out in chaos after the legislators of the opposition smoke, fire bombs

Members of the opposition party in Serbia in parliament in the parliament on Tuesday to block the last minute of a series of laws initiated by the decreasing government. Photo provided by Andrej Cukic/Epa-Fe

March 4 (Upi) – The parliament in Serbia broke out into chaos on Tuesday when the legislators of the opposition performed smoke grenades and other measures to block the adoption of a series of laws at the last minute that were initiated by the decreasing government.

“We believe that a leaking government cannot propose any laws,” said Radomir Lazovic from the Green-Linking Front party before the release of torches and gas bombs, which led to thick red clouds of smoke that filled the National Assembly in Belgrade during the first spring session.

Ana Brnabic, the spokesman, refused to interrupt the session when the struggles between members with two reported injuries broke out.

Prime Minister Milos Vucevic resigned in January after nationwide public outrage and protests in which the accountability obligation came after the tragic collapse of a renovated train and bus station in November, in which 15 people were killed in Novi Sad.

“(The government) must show … the highest level of responsibility,” he said in a public speech on January 28th. “In order not to further increase the tensions in society, I made the decision that I have just announced.”

Hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered almost every day to block main streets or other actions that demonstrators did again after the meeting in front of the parliamentary building in the capital after the episode on Tuesday.

“The uprising that lasts for months across the country reached Parliament today “Aleksandra Tomanic, Executive Director of the European Fund for the Balkans, published on X.

In the meantime, the resignation of the outgoing prime minister must still be approved by the Serbian parliament.

On Tuesday, the outgoing VUCEVIC government proposed a number of laws that are to be adopted that would grant student and youth -protesting concessions before the legislator acted with resignation to effectively end its administration.

A new candidate must be approved by coordination of the parliament, but could trigger a little more than a year after the last new election if the ruling Serbian progressive party does not come behind a new leader.

Brnabic, from the same political party as Vucevic and the president of the nation, described the opposition “Bat and terrorist bandits who want to block the work of the institutions”, and claimed on Tuesday, Jasmina Obradović had suffered a stroke from the chaotic scene.

“The woman fights for her life after threw a lightning vine on her,” said Brnabic.

The populist president of the Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, won a second term in April 2022 when his Serbian progressive received almost 43% of the votes based on 90% of the counted ballot papers.

Everything was “after months of protests across the country and hundreds of thousands on the street, which demanded justice for 15 dead and functioning institutions,” added the Tomanic of the Balkan Fund.