Government-organized_demonstration

Government-organized demonstration

Government-organized demonstration

Demonstrations which are organized by the government of that nation


Government-organized demonstrations or state demonstrations are demonstrations which are organized by the government of that nation.

"Day of Young Women" on 9 August 1951 Friedrichshain during the 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students

History

The Islamic Republic of Iran,[1][2] the People's Republic of China,[3] Republic of Cuba,[4] Kirchnerist Argentina,[5] the Soviet Union,[6] Fascist Italy, and Nazi Germany among other nations, have had government-organized demonstrations.

In Iran, demonstrations such as the anniversary of Islamic revolution, are organized by government. In the past, people at these demonstrations have chanted "Down with Israel" and/or "Death to America".[7][8]

The North Korean government regularly organizes demonstrations against South Korea or the United States or in support of government policies.

Modern use

On 16 November 2013, amid protests against the Oresharski government in Bulgaria, the ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party organized a demonstration in support of their own governance, which had at the time the lowest-ever popularity amongst the Bulgarian population since the end of one-party rule.[citation needed]

A similar example happened in Poland on 13 December 2015 when Jarosław Kaczyński's party, Law and Justice, changed their annual unofficial celebrations of the anniversary of the introduction of the Martial Law into a pro-government rally [9] to counterbalance a 50 000 strong "prodemocratic demonstration" [10] organized by the Democracy Defence Committee, protesting against what they called the breaking of the constitution by Law and Justice' president Andrzej Duda and Beata Szydło's government.

During the Bolivarian Revolution, state employees in Venezuela have often been forced to participate in government-organized demonstrations or counter-demonstrations.[11][12] After the arrest of Colombian businessman Alex Saab, who had close ties with the Nicolás Maduro administration and indicted with money laundering, the Venezuelan government organized a demonstration in support of Saab.[13]

During the 2018–2020 protests in Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, the president of Serbia and the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), launched a campaign titled "Future of Serbia" as response to the protests.[14][15][16] Vučić and SNS again organised a demonstration in response to the 2023 Serbian protests.[17][18][19]

See also


References

  1. Why Washington and Tehran are headed for a showdown the hedgefund journal 16 April 2006
  2. Global News, No. GL99-072 China News Digest June 3, 1989
  3. Cubans ponder life without Fidel THE WASHINGTON TIMES 2 August 2006
  4. Nicolás Pizzi (2012-07-29). "Militancia todo terreno: Sacan a presos de la cárcel para actos del kirchnerismo" [All-terrain militants: Prisoners are taken out of jail to take part in Kirchnerist demonstrations] (in Spanish). Clarín. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  5. "Democracy in the Former Soviet Union: 1991-2004" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine Power and Interest News Report 28 December 2004
  6. "Na mitingu Budućnost Srbije govorili domaći i strani političari". Glas Amerike (in Serbian). 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  7. "Skup "Budućnost Srbije": Odmeravanje snaga sa opozicijom". BBC News na srpskom (in Serbian (Latin script)). 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  8. "Iza kulisa: Miting "Budućnost Srbije"". BBC News na srpskom (in Serbian (Latin script)). 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2023-06-03.
  9. Marković, Tomislav (21 May 2023). "Pripreme za Vučićev kontramiting: Pritisci, prijetnje i podmićivanje". Al Jazeera (in Bosnian). Archived from the original on 25 May 2023. Retrieved 25 May 2023.
  10. Živanović, Katarina (23 May 2023). "Spiskovi, ucene i pretnje: Kako naprednjaci skupljaju pristalice za kontramiting 26. maja?". Danas (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 24 May 2023. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
  11. "SNS miting po pljusku, Vučić najavio odlazak sa čela stranke, Dodik povikao: "Živela Srbija, Srpska i Rusija"". BBC News (in Serbian (Latin script)). 26 May 2023. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.

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