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| (2012-01-16) |
| Last updated: 2012-01-17 13:02 EET |
The unprecedented street protests in Bucharest and other Romanian cities, in solidarity with doctor Raed Arafat, the founder of a highly appreciated emergency service in Romania, have been given extensive coverage in the Bucharest media.
“The Arafat spark fires up the most varied causes for discontent. Street protests sweep Romania,” headlines ROMANIA LIBERA, which makes a brief review of the events that started in Targu Mures on Thursday to express support for Arafat, but turned violent in Bucharest by Sunday, when the central part of the city was vandalized by some of the protesters. Beyond reasons and pretexts, ROMANIA LIBERA wonders who is to gain from these protests, and more importantly, from their spiralling into violence.
In its turn, JURNALUL NATIONAL headlines “Budget cuts, taxes and corruption push Romanians to the streets,” and quotes some of the slogans heard in the demonstrations: “Down with Basescu!”, “The Government must go!”, “Early elections!”, “No more dictatorship!”.
EVENIMENTUL ZILEI writes, “Blood in the streets of Romania. The Opposition and football fans turn protests into riots!” The same newspaper adds that chaos unleashed in the Romanian capital city on Sunday night, when scores of football fans started to push metal fences down and dared riot police to come for a fight. ADEVARUL daily notes, “A new revolution. Politicians add fuel to the fire. The leaders of the Liberal and Social Democratic opposition call party members and supporters to the street, to anti-Basescu demonstrations.”
International media also covered the events in Romania, emphasising that the protests, sparked by a controversial health system reform plan, broadened because of the general discontent with the austerity measures taken by Bucharest. According to the BBC, although the rallies in Romania began to support Raed Arafat, the protests have since widened to include general discontent with the government's policies.
Deutsche Welle also comments that protesters expressed their rage with both the austerity measures, and the wide-ranging corruption and nepotism, and demanded the resignation of the once popular President Basescu. The protests in Romania, says Associated Press, “reflect widespread anger against austerity measures and an unpopular government.”
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