At least 3 legislators who were injured in smoke bombs and torches in the Serbian parliament

At least three legislators were wounded on Tuesday, one of them seriously, after chaotic scenes in the Serbian parliament, during which smoke and glow bombs were thrown, which increases political tensions in the Balkan country.

Laws were to vote on a law that increases the financing of university education, but the opposition parties said that the ruling majority was also planning to agree to dozens of other decisions. They said this is illegal and that legislators must first confirm the resignation of Prime Minister Milos Fossivic and his government.

The chaos erupted about an hour after the start of the parliamentary session, where the opposition lawmakers blow a whistle and carry a reading banner, “Serbia cried until the regime falls!” Hundreds of opposition supporters gathered outside the parliament building during the session.

Video footage of the assembly hall showed clashes between legislators, flares and smoke bombs that are being thrown. The Serbian media said that eggs and water bottles were also thrown.

The officials later said that three people were injured in this turmoil, including the legislator, Yasameina Obradovic, who was transferred to the hospital. Parliament Speaker Anna Barnabic, who accused opposition to being a “terrorist gang”.

Defense Secretary Pratslav Gastik described those behind the accident as “a stigma for Serbia.”

“The opposition deputies were sabotaged about the nature of their personalities and the essence of their political agenda,” Jastik said.

Serbian popular President Alexander Fotovic Obradovic visited the hospital.

“You will win Yasminina, you will win Serbia,” Vocic said in Instagram.

The accident reflects A deep political crisis in Serbia Where the protests that lasted for months of anti -corruption rocked a popular government.

Vucevic resigned in January when the government faced the protests The collapse of a concrete train station in November The umbrella in northern Serbia, which killed 15 people, and who blamed the outbreak of corruption. Parliament must confirm the Prime Minister’s resignation in order to enter into force.

The increase in educational financing was one of the students’ protest demands in Serbia, who were a major driving force, almost behind the daily protests in the streets that started after the collapse of the umbrella on November 1 in Novi Sad.

The opposition parties insisted that the government has no power to issue new laws. Left legislator Raddir Lazovich said that the opposition is ready to support the passing of the required education bill from students, but not the other decisions listed in the association’s agenda.

“We can only discuss the fall of the government,” Lazovich said. He said that the only way out of the current crisis will be a transitional government that would create conditions for free elections, a demand that the ruling populists rejected over and over again.

Vocic and its ruling right -wing Serbian party and the ruling Serbian party imposed a strong grip on power in the past decades, despite the formal research on European Union membership.

Many people in Serbia believe that the collapse of the deadly umbrella was the result of dirty work and ignoring safety regulations due to government corruption.