A new protest is to be organized in Bucharest’s Victoriei Square this Sunday, February 24, against the new emergency ordinance (OUG) adopted by the government earlier this week, which brings new changes to the justice laws. Another protest will be organized in Cluj-Napoca.
Named “Repeal it and then leave!” (Abrogati si apoi plecati!), the protest is scheduled for Sunday, starting 18:00, according to its dedicated Facebook page. Dan Barna, the leader of opposition party USR, said that the newly formed electoral alliance USR-PLUS would also join the street protest, according to Romania-Insider.com.
As a reaction to these new changes, judge Cristi Danilet said that the Romanian magistrates consider organizing protests following the Polish mode, meaning that some judges and prosecutors would go in the courtroom “for urgent cases only,” more precisely for cases involving arrests, and will “find reasons” for other causes to be postponed.
