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    #26
    Difficult to know. Yes, Romanian is definitely her mother tongue. I can only assume that it is something about public speaking. She must, surely, be able to put sentences together in private

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      #27
      Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
      To distract us from our problems, there will be a referendum next month in Romania intended to make clear in the constitution that marriage is between a man and a woman. This has come about through the actions of something called the "Coalition for the Family" (which is basically a front for the Romanian Orthodox Church and other assorted bigots and shysters, who got a petition together and managed to get 500,000 signatures for it (the Coalition is also seriously into trashing women's rights. there is literally no saving grace to these people). The "traditional family" that they go on about is so successful in Romania that there are still even to this day 60,000 children in care homes, many of whom are there because their parents cannot take care of them, and a married woman is physically abused by her husband every 30 seconds on average. It should be noted that gay marriage is not legal in Romania, this is not to make it illegal, it is to put it in the constitution that it never can be made legal. As far as I can tell the proposed change would make single parent families "unconstitutional" too, since they demand that a family is defined as consisting of a man and a woman.

      Anyway, we're still embroiled in fighting to keep corruption illegal, but now we have this useless and worthless distraction which seeks to outlaw happiness. The opposition request is to boycott the referendum so as to make it fail through not being quorate.
      Seems to be a common trend in Central and Eastern Europe, I believe Croatia and Slovakia passed similar referenda.

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        #28
        Looks like we're going to be OK. At 4pm turnout was 15%. Now a lot of people won't have voted through laziness /apathy but the boycott campaign will have won nevertheless. Which is excellent news

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          #29
          Thankfully, appears the referendum will fail - only 15% turnout so far, and little indication of it approaching the 30% quorum.

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            #30
            Snap.

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