Deutsche Welle: "bribe and bribery are a successful model in Romania"
Anthony Solomon in arrest
According to Deutsche Welle's online edition in Romania "bribery has become an act of honor in the eyes of some" in a country where "mayors are charged and taken into custody," it said source.
Localities Craiova and Ramnicu Valcea city fathers are members of the party in power and both have problems due to allegations of bribery, but are strongly supported in the cities over which they preside.
"Anthony Solomon, the mayor of Craiova taken into custody for taking bribes, and Mircea Gutau, Mayor Ramnicu-Valcea already sentenced to prison for taking bribes, are people that agglutinates energy communities", says the article presented by Deutsche Welle.
Moreover, the cited source adds that the bribe is a successful model in Romania.
"Local Counselors in Ramnicu-Valcea effectively change the rules of granting the title of honorary citizen not to honor any brilliant mind of the city, but to reward the mayor sentenced to şpăgar. Approximately 25,000 signatures, including that of an academician, gathered on the petition demanding the mayor condemned honor. Mobilization triggered not by the mayor-chief achievements, but his conviction ", complete source.
Deutsche Welle do not forget the Mayor of Craiova, Antonie Solomon, taken into custody for bribery after, following a search, prosecutors have found the mayor's house, the cabinet, a cardboard box that rested 200,000 euros .
"Surreal scenario is enriched by the rapid reaction of Craiova mayoral employees who are organized" spontaneous "protest group. Anthony Solomon is nicknamed "the mayor of our hearts," a ballet from the local theater scene is canceled to make room for an event to support the participation of actors and scholars of the city and the village church where Anthony Solomon is Holiday Deity is invoked using the mayor wronged "complements Deutsche Welle.
According to him, "in Romania, the act of receiving a bribe was so well integrated in the collective mind that, for certain parts of local communities, it is not treated as criminal, but a physiological phenomenon shameful - because demand is not - but normal and healthy. Have you bribe equivalent to taking a diuretic mayor to stimulate the functioning of the administrative apparatus. Mayor rejects bribe is the exception. "
The article concludes by referring to the two primary fans: "There are still enough people who would be willing to give up their freedom and honesty to gain some material safety. Estate related serf mentality seems to have survived the years go well and that the democratic reflexes in Romania had little part of a Pavlovian-type building. "
