{"id":14786,"date":"2023-02-14T08:18:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T04:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=14786"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:51:33","slug":"albanian-opposition-protests-against-corruption-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/14786","title":{"rendered":"Albanian opposition protests against corruption, poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of opposition supporters rallied in front of the Albanian prime minister&#8217;s office on Saturday accusing the government of Edi Rama of corruption and protesting against the high cost of living which is forcing people to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters, led by opposition leader Sali Berisha, hurled firecrackers at the entrance of government offices where hundreds of police officers in anti-riot gear blocked protesters from entering the building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Edi Rama) resign, go where you belong, to the pillar of shame, the traitors\u2019 house,\u201d Sali Berisha, head of the opposition Democratic Party said, adding that a new protest will be called in front of the parliament on Monday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14787\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14787\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14787\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albania-Unrest-3.jpg\" alt=\"Albania Unrests\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albania-Unrest-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albania-Unrest-3-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albania-Unrest-3-585x365.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People take part in the Albanian opposition anti-government protest in Tirana, Albania, February 11, 2023. REUTERS\/Florion Goga<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Berisha, a former president and prime minister, is banned from entering the United States over alleged corruption. He denies the charges.<\/p>\n<p>During the protest Berisha accused Prime Minister Rama of corrupting U.S. officials to lobby against him and against opposition parties. Such accusations are rejected by both Rama and the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>Rama, who is in his third term as prime minister, has denied all accusations of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow will I live with 7,000 Albanian leke ($64.64) as a pension. I have to pay rent, electricity, water and everything else. Our lives have become poisonous,\u201d protester Mino Xhindi, a pensioner in his late 60s, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of opposition supporters rallied in front of the Albanian prime minister&#8217;s office on Saturday accusing the government of Edi Rama of corruption and protesting against the high cost of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[667],"tags":[680],"module":[67],"ctype":[17],"blog":[166],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albania","tag-mko-members-in-albania","module-news","ctype-story","blog-reuters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}