<p>Nationalist protesters carried a banner on May 8 through the streets of Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, calling for several of the country’s politicians to be hanged, RFE reported. Similar protests have occurred almost daily since April 27.</p><p>The protesters carried Macedonian flags and a few people held signs demanding that Hungarian-American financier George Soros stay out of the country’s politics, a rallying cry of nationalist movements in several eastern European countries.</p><p>Ethnic tensions have arisen since a violent outburst at Macedonia’s parliament on April 27, the day Talat Xhaferi, the newly elected speaker, took office, Balkan Insider reported</a>. It was the first time an ethnic Albanian had taken one of the three top political posts in the country.</p><p>Additional nationalist emotions have been inflamed by proposals to increase the use and acceptance of the Albanian language, in a country where ethnic Albanians form more than a quarter of the population.</p><br />
