Government-organized demonstration
Government-organized demonstrations or state demonstrations are demonstrations which are organized by the government of that nation.
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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
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- ↑ Analysis: Iran Sends Terror-Group Supporters To Arafat's Funeral Procession "...state-organized rallies..."
- ↑ Why Washington and Tehran are headed for a showdown the hedgefund journal 16 April 2006
- ↑ Global News, No. GL99-072 Template:Webarchive China News Digest June 3, 1989
- ↑ Cubans ponder life without Fidel THE WASHINGTON TIMES 2 August 2006
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- ↑ "Democracy in the Former Soviet Union: 1991-2004" Template:Webarchive Power and Interest News Report 28 December 2004
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