{"id":174697,"date":"2025-04-05T10:31:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=174697"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:31:25","slug":"after-supporting-students-sps-suspends-branko-ruzic-from-all-party-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/after-supporting-students-sps-suspends-branko-ruzic-from-all-party-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"AFTER SUPPORTING STUDENTS: SPS suspends Branko Ru\u017ei\u0107 from all party functions!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) has suspended Branko Ru\u017ei\u0107, the party\u2019s vice president and a member of the Executive Board, from all party functions for six months, reports <em>Nova.rs<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Nova.rs<\/em>, Ru\u017ei\u0107 was suspended in accordance with Article 5 of the party statute, which stipulates that a party member whose opinion has been overruled by party bodies cannot publicly promote that opinion as the official stance of the party. Furthermore, members are not allowed to publicly debate the decisions of party bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Branko Ru\u017ei\u0107, a longtime socialist official and minister in several governments, has recently made multiple \u201cpolitical deviations\u201d from the official positions of the ruling coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He gave an interview to N1 television, despite an informal ban within the ruling coalition prohibiting officials from appearing on that channel. During the interview, Ru\u017ei\u0107 announced that he would join the student-organized protest in Belgrade on Saturday, March 15\u2014which he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FIND OUT MORE: <\/mark><\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fserbiantimes%2Fposts%2Fpfbid031Yt2azWqvcP6V7JKf5nKFzEUbhf4pc39m9HzJRqFsWhG1w6HX8oBkznPP48F6u7Ul&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"635\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>He later referred to the camp in Pionirski Park, occupied by government supporters, as a &#8220;reality show,&#8221; and expressed a series of criticisms aimed at Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 and the way he interrupted Ivica Da\u010di\u0107\u2019s press briefing following the incident involving an injured police officer near RTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ru\u017ei\u0107 also stated that, \u201cif there were enough wisdom, the next prime minister-designate should be someone with autonomy from the person granting the mandate\u2014namely, from President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/marin-le-pen-osudjena-za-proneveru-preti-joj-5-godina-zatvora-i-zabrana-vrsenja-javne-funkcije\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">MARINE LE PEN CONVICTED OF EMBEZZLEMENT: She faces 5 years in prison and a ban from holding public office!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/interview-duricko-the-glory-and-misery-of-my-hollywood-will-i-return-to-serbia-and-why-i-support-the-students-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">INTERVIEW, \u0110URI\u010cKO: The glory and misery of my Hollywood \u2013 will I return to Serbia and why I support the students (VIDEO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/dokovic-denied-100th-title-by-his-idols-student-mensik-19-overcomes-his-mentor-in-miami-final-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">\u0110OKOVI\u0106 DENIED 100TH TITLE BY HIS IDOL\u2019S STUDENT: Men\u0161ik (19) Overcomes His Mentor in Miami Final! 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According to Nova.rs, Ru\u017ei\u0107 was suspended in accordance with Article 5 of the party statute, which stipulates that a party member whose opinion has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":174698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2755,5965,876,674,2826,113,2490,3032],"class_list":["post-174697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serbia","tag-blokade","tag-branko-ruzic","tag-politika","tag-protesti","tag-sps","tag-srbija","tag-studenti","tag-suspenzija","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174730,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174697\/revisions\/174730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}