On Sunday, the 2nd of November 2014, the right to vote of citizens of a member state of the European Union was violated by the Romanian government through the institution responsible for the organisation of elections abroad, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Diaspora, consisting in 2 to 3 million, was expected to be voting in majority against the ruling coalition’s presidential candidate and was effectively prevented from exercising their right to vote.
The Voting section in Munich, for example, should serve more than 75 000 voters, out of which only as few as 1867 were able to vote.
Romania is still monitored in the fields of judicial reform and corruption through the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism, and you are a member of European Parliament, while in the same time being in a fraction where the governing party of Romania is part. This is why we ask the European Parliament, and you directly, to take concrete action in regard to the flagrant violation of a fundamental right that affected the Romanian Diaspora last Sunday, a violation for which the Romanian government is directly responsible.
The concern of the Romanians, that the Diaspora, once more, will not be able to exercise the right to vote, is ever more severe as the second round of the presidential election due 16th of November 2014 is approaching.
Here is the film “The Beginning of the End of Democracy”, a visual document of the election in the Romanian Consulate General in Munich, Germany. It is an example of how the voting in the first round of the Romanian presidential election took place in most cities with a significant Romanian community:
In the hope for urgent action.
Best Regards,
Madalina Rosca
Manager
Make a Point NGO
Morarilor Str. 1, Bucharest 2, 022451, Romania
+4915739596179 (Germany); +40723531275 (Romania)
www.makeapoint.ro
This Letter is addressed to the Group of the Progressive Alliance of the Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament, represented by:
Evelyn Regner, Austria
Marc Tarabella, Belgium
Iliana Malinova Iotova, Bulgaria
Tonino Picula, Croatia
Demetris Papadakis, Cyprus
Pavel Poc, Czech Republic
Jeppe Kofod, Denmark
Marju Lauristin, Estonia
Liisa Jaakonsaari, Finland
Berès Pervenche, France
Udo Bullmann, Germany
Martin Schulz, Germany
Eva Kaili, Greece
Miltos Kyrkos, Greece
István Ujhelyi, Hungary
Nessa Childers, Ireland
Parrizia Toia, Italy
Andrejs Mamikins, Latvia
Vilija Blinkeviciute, Lithuania
Mady Delvaux, Luxembourg
Alfred Sant, Malta
Paul Tang, Netherlands
Boguslaw Liberadzki, Poland
Carlos Zorrinho, Portugal
Catalin Sorin Ivan, Romania
Vladimír Manka, Slovakia
Tanja Fajon, Slovenia
Iratxe García Pérez, Spain
Marita Ulvskog, Sweden
Glenis Willmott, United Kingdom