Opposition lawmakers disrupt parliament session, accusing the prime minister of downplaying ongoing antigovernment protests.
The leader of Albania’s opposition has branded members of the government as “criminals”, while he and fellow lawmakers disrupted a parliamentary session by setting off flares and smoke bombs.
Sali Berisha and other opposition members stormed parliament in the capital, Tirana, on Thursday in support of demonstrators , who are demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama’s resignation. Berisha and his colleagues unsuccessfully tried to prevent a vote on a new law governing the country’s central bank.
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“These [ruling lawmakers] are criminals and they deserve tear gas, rubber bullets, cracked skulls and broken bones, not the young…
