Police in Tirana, the capital of Albania, fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse hundreds of opposition protesters.
People accused the government of corruption and demanded that it be replaced by a technocratic interim authority.
Protesters claimed to be engaged in a campaign of civil disobedience against Socialist Party Prime Minister Edi Rama. The opposition in Albania has been protesting almost every week demanding that an interim government take over until the 2025 parliamentary elections.
“The protests will continue, this is a battle until this regime leaves,” Tedi Blushi of the opposition Freedom Party warned local media.
Leaders of Albania’s two largest opposition parties, Sali Berisha of the Democratic Party and Ilir Meta of the Freedom Party, are accused of corruption crimes and both claim they were orchestrated by Rama. They deny the allegations.
Berisha is being held under house arrest on corruption charges related to his time as prime minister. Meta was arrested at the end of October also on corruption charges relating to the period in which he served as president, between 2017 and 2022.
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