{"id":314586,"date":"2017-04-28T06:26:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314586"},"modified":"2017-04-28T06:26:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T06:26:08","slug":"brawl-breaks-out-after-protestors-storm-macedonia-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/brawl-breaks-out-after-protestors-storm-macedonia-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Brawl breaks out after protestors storm Macedonia parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"
Protesters stormed into Macedonia’s parliament on Thursday after an ethnic Albanian was elected as speaker.<\/p>\n
A brawl broke out injuring at least 10 people, including the Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev, who was left with blood pouring down his face.<\/p>\n
The protesters, supporters of ex-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO party, are demanding new elections.<\/p>\n
Politics in the former Yugoslav republic has been deadlocked since an inconclusive election in December.<\/p>\n
But the crisis goes back further, to a phone-tapping scandal two years ago.<\/p>\n
Mr Zaev has created a coalition with ethnic Albanian parties, but his attempts to form a government have been blocked by the president.<\/p>\n
Macedonian nationalists have been protesting on the streets since Mr Zaev tried to form the coalition.<\/p>\n