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Serbian police officers guard the street during a protest against the 'Mirdita-Dobar Dan' festival, which was organized by liberal groups from Serbia and Kosovo, in Belgrade, Serbia, 22 October 2020. EPA-EFE/MARKO DJOKOVIC

Lower threshold cleared path for right-wing to enter parliament

"This man hadn't invented this by himself. I have never been to Petrinja in my life. I was in Glina in 1995 with the Serbian Radical Party. We were there for two days. Mr. Paspalj was sitting in the audience then, so it was then that I saw him for the first time," Vucic said.

Vui was welcomed by the Speaker of the Parliament Ivica Dai.
Earlier, some representatives of the opposition came to the parliament, and among the first were the president of the DSS, Milos Jovanovic, and the deputy president of the SRS, Aleksandar Seselj, as well as the head of the SNS parliamentary group, Aleksandar Martinovic.

Pro-Russian Serbian nationalists have mourned the killing on August 31 of the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in Ukraine, Alexander Zakharchenko.

Ukraine's security service has decided to impose a 5-year ban on entry into the country on five members of Serbia's opposition Serb Radical Party (SRS).

Ukraine's ambassador to Serbia, Oleksandr Aleksandrovych, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday, that named the SRS members as Aleksandar Seselj, Milovan Bojic, and Dubravka Bojic.

Serbia - end of 'Clinton era' welcomed:

Like most other Balkan presidents and premiers, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic was quick to congratulate Donald Trump on his surprise victory in the 2016 US presidential elections on Wednesday.

Friday's joint meeting of opposition parties in Serbia has been summoned on the request of the "Movement for Turnaround" [Pokret za preokret"], which claims that the parliamentary elections held in April were not held in a free and democratic atmosphere.

MPs from Serbia's ruling Progressive Party, SNS, and the nationalist Serbian Radical Party, SRS, slated Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic during the parliamentary discussion of his report for 2015 on Wednesday, claiming he was not doing his job but was acting like a politician.

The right-wing Dveri-DSS coalition has accused Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, of pressuring the Election Commission, RIK, to declare that the coalition did not meet the threshold needed to enter parliament - and has warned of street protests.

The victory of the governing Serbian Progressive Party, SNS, and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Sunday's elections in Serbia - which was widely expected - has created little stir in the region.