Serbian ultra-nationalist Seselj says rally to go ahead

Serbian ultra-nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj said on Friday his Serbian Radical Party (SRS) would organize the gathering that the police said would be banned in the Croat populated village of Hrtkovci.

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Seselj’s Serbian Radical Party (SRS) said it would organize a gathering in the village of Hrtkovci in Vojvodina on May 6 following his conviction for war crimes committed against ethnic Croat civilians during the war in the former Yugoslavia.

Seselj said the Internal Affairs Ministry (MUP) does not have the authority to ban gatherings even though Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said earlier that the no gatherings would be allowed in Hrtkovci on May 6.

“If the legal conditions required for a ban are in place, then they can ban it. They do not have a single legal condition to ban the rally,” Seselj told the Beta news agency, adding that the SRS would appeal a possible ban. “If the rally is banned we will appeal the decision but we are going there,” Seselj said.

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The Democratic Party (DS) and League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) said they would organize a gathering of their own to counter the SRS rally in Hrtkovci on the same date.

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