Eurasia Press & News
MPs are set to reconvene on Wednesday after the Serbian Parliament was forced to adjourn its sitting on Tuesday by opposition Serbian Radical Party deputies who refused to sit in the seats assigned to them by the Administrative Board two months ago.
Parliamentary speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic issued a number of warnings to the Radical deputies after they refused to take up their designated seats in the newly refurbished chamber in the National Parliament building, before expelling them from the session and calling a 15-minute break. After the break, she had no option but to suspend the session on the grounds that it was not possible to continue work under the prevailing conditions.
Radical deputies, who wore T-shirts with the face of their party leader Vojislav Seselj, refused to take up the seats assigned to them by the Parliamentary Administrative Board, and were asked to leave the session after receiving three verbal warnings.
There are 49 items on the session’s agenda, including the draft law on the appearance and use of the coat of arms, flag and national anthem, a set of laws in the field of ecology, as well as a draft law on political parties.
The session got off to a slow start initially because of problems with the new electronic voting system in the new parliamentary building, where deputies entered on Tuesday for the first time. Adoption of the law on the appearance and use of the coat of arms, flag and national anthem will legalise the symbols of statehood laid down by the new Constitution that was brought in in November 2006.
