Major protests erupted after allegations that prime minister Edi Rama had engaged in vote-rigging and corruption.
Despite heavy police presence and brutality during previous uprisings, the protesters came in their hundreds of thousands, demonstrating and calling for the resignation of the government in Tirana.
Marches, rallies, picketing, rioting and protest movement, demonstrations, general strike actions and unrest would have turned into a conflict, but it managed to prevent that.
[3] Countrywide protests turned violent as police quelled stone-throwing protesters who attempted to strip parliament and demanded democratic reforms and better conditions, calling and chanting for the resignation of the government of Edi Rama and new elections, led by opposition leader Lulzim Basha between March 21-March 28.
Police and the army fired Tear gas, Rubber bullets and Water cannon at every protest calling for the resignation of the government.