Months-Old Deadlock: Police Officers and Balkan Nation

months-old deadlock: Clashes over several hours injured 77 people, including 22 police officers and several lawmakers, authorities said, according to Toronto Star. Neighbouring countries along with the European Union and United States expressed concern at the small Balkan nation's escalating political crisis. Reuters By Konstantin Testorides The Associated Press Thu., April 27, 2017 SKOPJE, MACEDONIA Chaos swept into Macedonia's parliament Thursday as demonstrators stormed the building and attacked lawmakers to protest the election of a new speaker despite a months-old deadlock in efforts to form a new government. Dozens of protesters, some of them masked, broke through a police cordon after the opposition Social Democrats and parties representing Macedonia's ethnic Albanian minority voted to name a new parliament speaker. He has been struggling to put together a coalition government and his supporters have been holding nightly street rallies for two months across the country to protest the political situation. Many of the protesters were supporters of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, whose conservative party won elections in December but didn't get enough votes to form a government on its own. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.