Hundreds of students and citizens protested in front of the Albanian Parliament, while a plenary session with tension between the opposition and the opposition was held inside.
The opposition parties of Albania have boycotted their participation in Parliament sessions for several months in protest against the Government. However on Thursday they returned toPArliament debate the uninterrupted student protests.The Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama during his speech at the Assembly began talking about student protest and government's efforts to open a dialogue, but his speech was terminated by the opposition Democratic Party MP Endri Hasa, who threw eggs on the prime minister.
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| Endri Hasa is throwing an egg toward Edi Rama while he's speaking |
Thursday's session of the Albanian Parliament went into intense tensions and rhetoric before its termination by the Speaker of the Assembly.
Opozition leader Lulzim Basha told the prime minister that he had violated the Constitution and the procedure, calling "bandits" the MPs and ministers of the majority.
Today's protest marked the sixteenth day of public university students who are boycotting the teaching in all faculties of Albania, with their economic and academic demands addressed to the government and educational institutions of the country. The Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in the framework of his efforts to open dialogue with students has met with some of their teachers and lecturers through university auditors across Albania.
The students have 8 requirements to facilitate their studies, which are related to tariff reductions, improvement of the quality of education and the dormitory conditions they live in, the provision of a student card for economic facilities and their representation on board boards decision-makers of universities. Even today they rejected the dialogue and say that these conditions cannot be discussed but only fulfilled and their protest does not have a representative.