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Fired teachers protest

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TIRANA, Sep. 13 – A considerable number of teachers have started to hold regular protests in front of the Education Ministry against its decision to fire all teachers with partial contracts.
The ministry decided to fire all those who had such contracts but many of the fired teachers say that was made based on political affiliation.
Thousands of teachers have remained unemployed and have threatened to scale up the protests.

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