16 January 2012. VOR Presents… Romanian Protests Against Austerity Policy

The Romanian Government is due to hold an emergency meeting over the growing wave of protest against the Cabinet’s austerity policy.

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On 15 January, clashes erupted during a protest as demonstrators pelted riot police with stones, a day after a dozen people suffered injuries when a similar rally turned violent.

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Around 1,000 Romanians gathered in central Bucharest to voice anger at falling living standards and to call on Romanian President Traian Băsescu to quit.

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However, hours after the beginning of a peaceful demonstration, about 100 hooded youths started throwing stones, firecrackers, and smoke bombs.

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Reports indicate that several dozen people were injured.

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Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc urged the protesters to end their violence and to start a dialogue.

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16 January 2012

Voice of Russia World Service

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Editor’s Note:

For those not in the know, Romania has a “minority government”… that is, no one party has a majority in parliament. The largest bloc is the Liberal Democratic Party (PDL)… a pro-Western Neoliberal bunch, run by pro-American lickspittles. Like in Australia, the most rightwing major party are the “Liberals”… of the sort condemned by the Church for their moneygrubbing and attempts to enrich the plutocrats at the expense of the ordinary people. If an election were to occur today, there’s no doubt that the centre-left Social Democratic Party (PSD) would whip the PDL handily. In short, the American-imposed post-communist order in the Balkans is unravelling, and rather quickly at that.

THIS is what the GOP wants in the USA… they, too, expect the common people to bear all the pain so that the McMansion dwellers get all the gain. Think on that…

BMD