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Thursday evening, the Minister of Justice announced starting the procedure of removing Laura Codruta Kovesi, the chief prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), from office. As a result, there was first a quick reaction that I heard gathered around 1000 people in Victory Square that evening, some known activists and groups also promoting it […]

A few more events took place since the previous protest report I posted, including a campaign during the last week of 2017, during which a group of people sent e-mails to members of the Parliament, mainly those who voted in favor of the changes to the laws concerning the justice system, or a band’s attempt, […]

The daily protests continued during this period, as when I looked for them I even found a couple of posts mentioning a few people who showed up, again in Victory Square, even on December 25 and 26, but otherwise I haven’t seen these daily protests promoted or even mentioned by the activists or pages I’d […]

This will be a rushed protest update, but it’s either this or nothing, already too much to cover anyway, so I’ll lump things together and go through others as quickly as I can. While daily protests have continued, just moving to the Parliament now, this particular stage of this battle is quite lost anyway, most […]

On top of what would be the typical Sunday protest, last week people were asked to attend one on Friday as well, since it was Romania’s National Day. The event was called “Romania Is Dying”, which was an admittedly sensationalist title, but the description also listed more general matters, such as healthcare, education and the […]