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(02-02-2017, 10:55 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: *** 3-Feb-17 World View -- Hundreds of thousands of people protest left-wing corruption in Romania

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  • Hundreds of thousands of people protest left-wing corruption in Romania
  • Massive Romanian protests linked to 1989 ouster of violent dictator

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**** Hundreds of thousands of people protest left-wing corruption in Romania
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Around 150,000 people protested in Romania's capital city Bucharest on Wednesday (Al Jazeera)

Hundreds of thousands of people turned out on Wednesday in cities
across Romania to protest a new decree by the center-left Social
Democratic Party (PSD).  The new decree permits corruption by
government officials.

Although the PSD holds a parliamentary majority after winning an
election last month, leaders of the party are currently facing
corruption charges that bar them serving as ministers.  In particular,
PSD chairman in Liviu Dragnea would become prime minister, but in
April 2016 he received a two-year suspended jail sentence for vote
rigging.

The new decree would change the law so that Dragnea would be cleared
of his suspended jail sentence, allowing him to become prime minister.
The law would also free dozens of his left-wing cronies, such as Dan
Voiculescu, currently serving 10 years for abuse of power and money
laundering.  Euro News and Reuters

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**** Massive Romanian protests linked to 1989 ouster of violent dictator
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The protests are the biggest since the 1989 revolution.  At that time,
the country was in the grip of a vicious Stalinist dictator, Nicolae
Ceausescu.  Few dared to protest because the Secret Police would jail,
torture and kill them.  However, a spontaneous protest of hundreds of
thousands of people began to demand the ouster of Ceausescu, forcing
him to try to flee with his wife Elena.  They were quickly captured,
tried, and then executed on Christmas Day 1989.

Since then, the government has been one of the most corrupt in the
world, with the politicians governing the country having stolen as
much as possible, with the help of people from the former communist
party and the former secret police of Ceausescu's reign.

When Romania joined the European Union in 2007, it was under the
condition that Romania would institute severe reforms in the
administration of justice and in government corruption.  The European
Commission has been closely monitoring Romania each year since then,
to chart progress in judicial reform and the fight against corruption.

The most recent EC report, issued just two weeks ago, documented
progress in many areas, but still concluded: "Corruption prevention is
still weak and is not yet established as a core obligation of public
administration."

Romania's government announced the new changes in the law just as the
EC report was published.  The new law is a major reversal of Romania's
programs to reduce corruption.  Since Romania was admitted to the EU
on the condition that judicial and government corruption be reduced to
international norms, Romania's membership in the EU might be in
jeopardy, if it weren't for the fact that EU leaders are more
concerned in today's post-Brexit world that the EU might fall apart
anyway.  Deutsche Welle and European Commission and Transparency International and The 1989 Romanian Revolution and the Fall of Ceausescu


KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Romania, Liviu Dragnea,
Social Democratic Party, PSD, Dan Voiculescu,
Nicolae Ceausescu

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