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Romanian democracy smacks of an empire where courtiers don’t get explanationsPhoto: Panorama / Image generated by AI/Microsoft Bing

Today we are talking about how the emperor syndrome suffered by President Klaus Iohannis is only a symptom of the gangrene that has engulfed Romanian democracy: a state empire where the government is more opaque than ever and does not take into account anything related to money state, collected from “courtiers”. Then we learn that Mayor Nikushor Dan is also one of us, a “taxi parent” who takes his child to school every day by car, fully contributing to the postponement of the “traffic revolution”.

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