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		</div><p>Albania’s centre-right opposition has continued protests calling for the resignation of the government and for an early parliamentary election.</p>
<p>The leadership of the Democratic Party-led opposition decided to hold a small protest on Sunday against the arrest of a senior party official and called a potentially larger, national rally for Monday.</p>
<p>Democrats’ leader Lulzim Basha called on all Albanians to join them in Monday’s evening protest.</p>
<p><em>“Barbarous violence against hundreds of protesters… will get tomorrow the proportional response from the united and determined people,”</em> Basha said, speaking in front of hundreds of supporters at the Tirana police department.</p>
<p>Police arrested 50 people, while 31 others were detained and later released, for acts against police and public buildings.</p>
<p>Saturday’s protest turned violent, with opposition supporters using Molotov cocktails and police using tear gas and water cannons. Protesters and police officers were injured.</p>
<p>The opposition accuses the Cabinet of Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama of being corrupt and linked to organised crime, which the government denies.</p>
<p>Rama denounced the violence, adding that <em>“Albania is damaged.”</em></p>
<p>The opposition has been holding national protests since mid-February and smaller ones every week across the country, complaining of the corrupt government officials and of vote stealing in parliamentary elections two years ago.</p>
<p>Opposition lawmakers relinquished their seats in parliament in protest, though many have now been filled by other opposition candidates. The governing Socialists have 74 seats in the 140-seat parliament.</p>
<p>In June, Albania expects an answer from the European Union on whether full membership negotiations will be launched, and also holds municipal elections.</p>
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