Around 10,000 people protested in Bucharest on Sunday evening, June 24, while thousands more took to the streets in other big cities in the country, such as Timisoara, Cluj, Sibiu and Iasi. They are mainly unhappy with the plans of the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) to change the criminal codes and fear that the Social Democrats will try to pass these changes by Emergency Ordinance (OUG), which would accelerate the adoption procedure.
The protesters believe PSD will try to change the criminal code as soon as possible, especially the provisions related to the abuse of office offense, for which the PSD leader Liviu Dragnea was recently sentenced to three years and six months in prison. Dragnea himself said late last week, after the High Court’s ruling, that he was wrong to try and pass these changes through the Parliament and that the Social Democrats will be “more firm and radical” with what they have to do.
Source: Romania-insider.com.
