On the 31st of January, the government of Romania adopted an Emergency Ordinance that changes the Crime Code, in order to deincriminate the work abuse, if the damage is less than 48 000 US dollars. There were rumors about this ordinance since the government was installed (after the Parliament elections), and people started protesting against it. Through that, in the last night of January, the government adopted the Ordinance, without publicing it on the meeting’s agenda. When people got to know that, a spontaneous protest with thousands of people begun in the front of the Government’s building, in the Victory’s Market. Luckily, there was a 10 days term for the Ordinance to get in effect.
The next week, the president, the attourney general and the Magistracy’s Superiour Council signaled the Constitutional Court to cancel the Emergency Ordinance as soon as possible. The protests also continued, but the number of protesters growth more and more everyday. On Monday, more than 100 000 of people protested in the Victory’s Market, Bucharest; and more than 200 000 all around the country. Even the president went out with the rest of protesters. After 6 days with tens thousands of people protesting in the street everynight, the government adopted another Emergency Ordinance that abrogues the changes of the Crime Code, on Saturday. Still, the protests continued, people accusing that they can’t trust this government anymore, and asking for its demission. On Sunday night took place the biggest protest that ever existed in Romania, with more than 300 000 people in front of the Government’s building in Bucharest, and more than 600 000 people in the whole country. The protesters from the Victory’s Market created a very beautiful moment, turning on their flashlights and
straightening them to the sky. Every night of protests, at 10 o’clock, the protesters from all over the country sang the national anthem of Romania.
It’s amazing to see how such a big number of people got to stand togheter, unite, for justice and democracy. Teenagers, elderly people, parents with their little kids, all together for one cause. I’m happy to believe that people in Romania finally discovered what democracy means.
But still, the prime-minister announced that he won’t resing, and the changes of the Crime Code can be made in the Parliament in two ways. Way no. 1, the Parliament cancels the Emergency Ordonance that abrogue the changes, or, way no. 2, the Parliament simply modifies the Crime Code as they would modify any law. The bad thing is, these changes can be easily regardless people’s desire, as the party that proposed the changes for the first time has majority in the Parliament.Plus, the Constitutional Court rejected all the signals of unconstitutionality. Now, on 11th of February, the intensity of the protests decreased, but for Saturday and Sunday night, the protesters announced on Facebook that they plan to organize a “Marathon of Democracy” and a “human Romanian flag”. Still, I’m happy that these protests took place because it made us, the Romanians, more unite, and it has shown us, and the whole world that if we really want something, we have to stand for it, and we will stand for it, no matter what.
Photos: http://www.timponline.ro/robert-sighiartau-a-protestat-in-piata-victoriei-dinbucuresti-
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