2014 Romanian Presidential Election in Munich

This needs to be read and shared! Romanians abroad were systematically prevented to vote in today's (Nov 2nd, 2014) Presidential Election.

The Government intentionally did everything to slow and hinder the voting process abroad in embassies and consulates, as it is known from previous elections that Romanians abroad overwhelmingly vote against the Socialist Party and its candidate, Prime Minister Dr. Victor Ponta. Even though the number of Romanians abroad vastly increased since the previous elections in 2009, fewer voting sections were organized and paperwork was introduced to slow down the voting process.

I arrived at the Romanian Consulate in Munich at 13:45 and the queue was 1000 person long. After 7 hours of wait, I got inside the consulate at 20:45, minutes before closing time of 21:00. More than 500 people who waited for hours in the cold didn't got the chance to cast their vote. Families with small children, seniors, young people, even pregnant women gathered not only from Munich, but also from Nuremberg (which had its own voting section in 2009) and Regensburg. In such cases, the law provides the possibility to extend voting hours. Though the voting commission requested the extension, the Romanian Election Authority rejected it. For the tens of thousands of Romanians in Munich and the region, there were only 4 voting stamps available and a commission of only 4 people to handle identification!

And the same happened not only in Munich: citizens were also denied their vote in Paris, London, Madrid, Strasbourg, Rome, Turin, New York, Vienna, Valencia, Bologna, Brussels, Dublin, Stuttgart, Chisinau, Berlin, Stockholm and the list goes on.

In the last 3-4 years, the Justice in Romania made significant progress in fighting corruption. Ministers, members of parliament, mayors, dubious business people and even a former Prime Minister were convicted on corruption charges. With these elections the stakes are high, that all this progress might be lost if the Prime Minister Dr. Victor Ponta wins the elections, as he defended many of those convicted.

If this voting obstruction by the Government of Prime Minister Dr. Ponta gets enough coverage in foreign media, there might be enough pressure to address the overcrowded polling stations abroad and to enable all Romanians who wish it to cast their votes. The voting capacity abroad needs to be at least doubled for the runoff in two weeks!

PS: The Doctor title for Mr. Ponta is used sarcastically. Even though his PHD was proven plagiarized, instead of quitting his Prime Minister job, like proven plagiator do in normal countries, Mr. Ponta used his power to change the PHD commission to obtain a favorable verdict.

Credits - Tudor Stoian. Source: here

Romania - asking for help&justice

Romanians. We are not necessary better than you, we are just... different.
... and... from a archeological point of view, older. There are discoveries that place our ancestors among those who were part of the oldest civilizations - somewhere  between 5000 and 7000 years old, when other civilizations were non-existent, or were just forming. Well... I don't have the arrogance of participating at such events, after all I believe in reincarnation.
Still...
Romanians are working people. There are many discoveries made by the romanian people, from the medicine to jet engines, from food to IT, and so on, and so on...
Don't get me wrong, we have lazy people, like any forest has its dry wood.
But...
These people you will see bellow are poor. I mean... they are so poor, that they eat what the land gives them. They live simple lives, all they do from the spring to the end of the autumn is working,  farming. And if it comes about animals, to work means working winter, too. Believe it or not, having a few chickens in the yard or even a cow (for milk) is seen by some people as a sign of wealth.While in most parts of Europe people have cars, many of these farmers have horse carts, in the fortunate case they can afford one.
Caught in the crossfire of Chevron, romanian gendarmes and the misguided use of the law, these people have nowhere to go. After the WWII, the communists took their lands and forced them to work in state cooperatives. After the so-called Revolution in 1989, one government after another ignored the agriculture, so these people had to endure more and more poverty. When you read this keep in mind that a big part of aid sent here - things, or the loans made by the Romania officials were gone to dust. Millions and milliards of dollars and euros, loans after loans - we should had a shiny, glowing country by now, don't you think?
No, it's not the ordinary man who steals these money. It's the man in the suit you see on TV, shacking hands with... your officials.


Maybe now you will understand why true romanians hate people like Traian Băsescu or Victor Ponta.

Far as I remember, Valdis Dombrovskis said that missing Victor Ponta's hand was just a moment of lack of attention. Well, true or not, high treason dictatorial figures like Ponta should be treated as such intentionally.

Bellow you have some samples of "democracy" in  Romania, December 2013. Here, gendarmes are both used as bodyguards for Chevron  and as a repressive force of the romanian government. Not only that the word "repressive" can be used when you talk about these gendarmes, you will find that "oppressive" is another fitted word, as well, since these uniforms broke into people's yards/houses and beat the people, young, old, no matter...
Well, have you thought about helping the poor, the helpless, just out of the goodness of your heart? Do you have any power of doing that? Do you have the will? Well... now it's the time to use them. 
You have one videoclip here

You may be a political figure. You may be not. Whoever and whatever you are, remember this: shacking hands with a dictatorial-traitor- thief  raise questions about you in people's minds.

sursa foto: NasulTV