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Scottish Parliament welcomes founder of Ukrainian neonazi party
Furious MSPs say Holyrood should vet foreign guests before rolling out the red carpet
Supporters of Ukrainian far-right party Svoboda, the successor of the Social-National Party of Ukraine founded by Andriy Parubiy, march in 2016. The portrait is of Stepan Bandera, whose Ukrainian Insurgent Army murdered tens of thousands of Polish and Jewish civilians during the Holocaust
SCOTTISH politicians gave a round of applause to the founder of a Ukrainian neonazi party today, prompting calls for a review of parliamentary vetting processes.
Andriy Parubiy, who co-founded the neonazi Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU) in 1991, was welcomed to Holyrood in his role as chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament.
The SNPU, which disbanded in 2014 and effectively became the Svoboda party, restricted membership to ethnic Ukrainians and had a Waffen SS-style Wolfsangel logo.
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