Romania's government decriminalizes official misconduct

>The government on Tuesday evening also sent to Parliament a proposal that will pardon thousands of prisoners. It says the measure, which will free about 3,000 convicts, will help reduce overcrowding in prisons. Prisoners interviewed by The Associated Press on Tuesday scoffed at the idea, saying the changes are likely to benefit senior officials rather than ordinary convicts.

>Protests erupted in cities around the country after the emergency pardon plan was made public last month and the chief anti-corruption prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi, said it "will render the anti-corruption fight irrelevant."

>The National Anticorruption Directorate has prosecuted 1,170 cases of abuse in office during the past three years with damages worth euros 1 billion euros ($1.07 billion.), just under one-third of all of its cases, she said.

>Both the EU and Germany criticized the move.

>European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic told reporters that the bloc is "following the latest developments in Romania with growing concern. "

>"The fight against corruption needs to be advanced and not undone," Sefcovic said.

>German foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said that "With these decisions the Romanian government has obviously ignored massive concerns on the part of the president, the judiciary and large parts of the population. We are watching these developments with some concern because large parts of Romanian civil society have already expressed their concerns about the decisions and the subject matter very clearly."

>Brett said the Social Democratic Party moved fast because "they consider that the world's attention is on the U.S. at the moment and so international condemnation and pressure will not be forthcoming. "

>"As we've seen in Poland and Hungary, the slide into authoritarianism isn't overnight but slowly one law at a time," Brett said.

>>107125
Literal south american tier banana republic of gypsies.

>>107125
One step forwards 2 steps back, like clockwork. I gave up on that shithole and left after Klaus "the cuck" Iohannis proved himself to be an incompetent retard when he allowed the thiefves to give themselfves special extremely large pensions for the entire political class. The only thing that could stop that shithole from sinking completly into the balkanic shit filled sinkhole would be a hero taking a bomb into the parliament and even that would only do little since presence at work in the parliament is under 40%(they still get paid doe). Just bomb our shit up pham, end it all. All the work and progress made in the last 5 years wiped in a hidden rushed coup made overnight. I have no country anymore, i give up

>>107144
Correct

>>107125
>200,000 lei

Another glorious day in the Balkans, where every country is pretty much run by kleptomaniacs.

>>107125

>Leaders of the center-left Social Democratic Party and the junior Alliance of Democratic Liberals, which form the current coalition government, both face corruption charges that bar them from serving as ministers

>center-left
>social democratic
>liberals

Welp, that's the problem. But i feel your pain, Romania.

t. banana republic of Brashitzil

>>107169
Things have gotten so bad that many people there are actually praying that Russia frees them from their Western backed kleptocracies.

>>107229
Wanting reform is not the same thing as wanting to be subjugated by another state, anon.

>>107221
Ah yes because the right wing version of that, as seen across Africa, is any fucking better? Your simplistic media driven labels cuckold you Ameritard.

>>107230
That's a Russian shill anon. He's setting up for Romanias annexation.

What the fuck do you expect when only 40% of the people voted, and most voted the fucking ex commies. Romanians don't know democracy.
T. Romanian

down with the corruption !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!