Affairs due to his proven skill and success as a diplomat and foreign contacts. As Minister of the Interior, Zog brought increasing internal stability at the cost of increasing authoritarianism.

Zog's divided opponents were brought together by the cumulative effect of nearly two years of his rule, which only underlined the vast problems of the nation that still required solutions. The Western-educated Albanian intelligentsia feared Zog as an undereducated and unscrupulous man prone to despotism, whilst the Kosovo Albanians did not appreciate