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Opposition stages protest outside Parliament as lawmakers discuss 2025 state budget bill

TIRANA, Nov 19 /ATA/ – As lawmakers continue debate on the 2025 draft budget, following a marathon session a day ago, supporters of the main opposition Democratic Party in Albania gathered in a protest outside Parliament building on Tuesday evening.

DP leader Sali Berisha said that the opposition’s civil disobedience campaign will continue outside Parliament.

Berisha said that the opposition had forwarded 17 amendments to the proposed state budget bill for next year, including setting a national living wage rate.

Berisha criticized the proposed budget, calling it the “biggest robbery of the year.

Police officers are deployed to maintain order and security during the protest around the Parliament building.

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