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"Mr President, in a meeting of the political bureau of the Bolshevik Party in 1923, Stalin said: ‘It does not matter who and how they vote, what matters is who counts the votes.’ Evil and cynical, but so current. Just as there is a drug mafia, a weapons mafia, a bank mafia, there is also a public opinion polls mafia. As a sociologist by profession, I can testify that in my country, Romania, this situation has reached proportions that are downright monstrous, especially because, year after year, the market of public opinion polls has an extremely high turnover, running to tens of millions of euros. False opinion polls are the overture to electoral fraud.
I call on the European Parliament to get involved in establishing a strict control of the public opinion polls market at continental level, with exemplary punishments for offenders. We cannot talk about democracy and free elections if they are tainted by shameless fraud."@en1
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