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"Mr President, as you probably know, Romania has recently concluded a two-year period in which different elections were held every six months. The last electoral consultation was presidential and was won by the current president with the very narrow margin of 70 000 votes, coming mainly from the diaspora.
What bothers me as a citizen is that, during the entire electoral campaign, I was not able to post anything critical of the current president on my blog, the Europolis, while public access to my blog was interrupted altogether. I consider this unacceptable, both because it represents censorship of the right to free speech and because it shows that the Internet, too, is controlled by those in power and/or their supporters.
All in all, it is regrettable that, 20 years after the revolution, in which many people died so that democracy would take firm root, such attitudes are tolerated – possibly even encouraged – by those who temporarily enjoy the fruits of democracy, being elected to power even with such narrow margins."@en1
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