In recent months, Albanian opposition parties have resorted to disruptive tactics, including flares and noise, to protest what they perceive as the authoritarian rule of the governing Socialist Party. On Thursday, despite opposition claims of obstruction by the left-wing Socialists, lawmakers successfully passed the annual budget and other draft laws. The unrest traces its origins back to October, coinciding with prosecutors accusing 79-year-old Sali Berisha, the former prime minister and president, and current leader of the center-right Democratic Party, of corruption related to a land-buying…