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You seem to forget that we live in a representative democracy. When the government was formed (PSD + ALDE) in January it won by a majority and there are no reasonable facts on why the government should resign.

I want to remind you that when the "Colective" horror happened the government resigned (PSD) but when a similar incident happened in the USA the president or any government official didn't resign.

If you think that we are more advanced than the american democracy then you sir ignore certain facts.

source:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/12/04/oakland...

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If one of the first laws you try to pass is to legalize bribes lower than $50k to save your party leader and his cronies, it means that you deceived your voters.

Bribing was never on the table to be decriminalized, just negligence while serving in a public office.

You can easily masquerade a bribe as negligence.

Whoops, I just found $50k on my public office. I'll just take it out of negligence.

"legalize bribes lower than $50k" If you had bothered reading OUG13/2017 you would have found out that a case regarding a lower than 50k becomes a civil case and the damaged is recovered by the state. Honestly read the ordinance and stop making propaganda for PNL/USR or whatever party you want.

Which sets 50 corrupt politicians free to deal with it in a civil court. Yeah right.

The comparison with USA does not help at all because the socio-political situation in Romania is so wildly different, in all aspects.

I agree with you that the government doesn't have to necessarily resign but the fact that they were democratically elected doesn't give them the right to do anything they want. The people have the full right to voice their disagreement with the actions of the government, and I happen to agree with the demands and sentiment of the overall protests.

Unfortunately the Romanian people have been lagging (on average) when it comes to civic involvement, education, mutual trust, mutual respect etc., which lead to the election of the current populist government. There are signs that this is changing, slowly, and that makes me hopeful.

If anything, you're proving my point.

Since PSD was voted by so many people and is in the right, why isn't there any significant counter-protest?

If PSD would've governed by sticking to their political principles, their proposed agenda and within reason, there would've never been any protests. Sure, people would be upset because they have different political views, but you would've never seen 600k people on the streets.

Democracy is not a blank cheque and your argument of "they won fair and square" does not allow them to send us back into the dark ages ESPECIALLY for their own very specific interests.

If you think there's anything wrong with my logic above, then you're probably a lost case.

> there are no reasonable facts on why the government should resign

Other than the fact that they tried to decriminalize many corruption offenses triggering the largest protests since the fall of communism. As many people are saying: thieves shouldn't be let go just because they've been caught and gave everything back.

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