Short history of the Romanian anti-gay referendum

The conservative anti-gay movement in Romania (Coalition for Family, CpF), who presses for a referendum against gay marriage and is today fully embraced by the Social Democrats, the ruling party, has an interesting history. It started not as anti-gay, but anti-abortion movement. It was in 2012. A bunch of Lib-Dems (president Băsescu’s party) from Transylvania, […]

USR şi fetişul referendumului

Ca si 5 Stelle din Italia, USR si-a prins urechile (vezi aici) in neajunsurile „democratiei directe” si naivitatii de a crede ca solutia la orice problema e un referendum (eventual online, daca esti hipster): consulti poporul/membrii si gata, ai raspunsul politic perfect si legitim la orice. Asa s-au facut de ras la primariile Roma si […]