Albanian police used water cannons to push back demonstrators in Tirana. Prime Minister Edi Rama said protesters had thrown stones and tried to overturn the government. He described attempts to seize power through violence as unacceptable. Rama warned that force would be used against any effort to destabilize the country. The confrontation was presented by the government as an effort to block a violent transfer of power rather than a routine protest. No casualty figures or information about arrests were included in the report. The account also gave no details about the protest’s original demands or how the crowd had assembled.