2017 storming of the Macedonian Parliament

2017 storming of the Macedonian Parliament
2017 storming of the Macedonian Parliament
Part of the Macedonian political crisis (2015-17)
Date	27 April 2017
Location	Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Caused by	New parliament majority elected speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia; Election of ethnic Albanian as Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia; Transfer of power from VMRO-DPMNE to SDSM;
Methods	Violence in the Parliament building;
Resulted in	20+ arrested; Internationally recognized new speaker of parliament;
Parties
VMRO-DPMNE; Macedonian nationalists; Parapolice officers; Multiple-right wings organizations ;	Social Democratic Union of Macedonia; Democratic Union for Integration; Alliance for Albanians; Macedonian police;
Lead figures
	Nikola Gruevski; Mitko Čavkov; Trajko Veljanovski Zoran Zaev; Talat Xhaferi; Ziadin Sela
Number
200+	22+
Casualties
Injuries	102
Charged	30+

Storming of the Macedonian Parliament, also known as Bloody Thursday (Macedonian: Крвав четврток, romanized: Krvav četvrtok) occurred on 27 April 2017, when about 200 Macedonian nationalists (some of whom were members and sympathizers of VMRO-DPMNE) stormed the Macedonian Parliament in reaction to the election of Talat Xhaferi, an ethnic Albanian, as Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. It was the biggest attack in history on a Macedonian institution.

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