Mayor of Constanta, Radu Mazare, can be considered the star of FreeEx Report - Freedom of the Press in Romania, year 2009. Mayor is mentioned in three separate cases in the report released on May 3, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day and you can see it at www.ziuadeconstanta.ro .

"The Road" of Radu Mazare through the report begins with chapter "Assaults, threats and insults", titled "Mayors give journalists curses instead of explanations."

Documentation relating to press freedom says that On August 4, Constanţa Mayor, Radu Mazăre, used a hard and not at all academic language regarding the HotNews.ro electronic publication, after a reporter asked him for details on the way the Mayor had allegedly spent 800,000 Euros from the City Hall's budget for advertising - a story on which HotNews had prior reported. "Those from HotNews, which are a press institution kissing Băsescu's ass all day, made a prosecutor-like investigation, without... They made an investigation just like those at the National Integrity Agency, without asking for documents. They made it ill intended, just like the ones at the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA). I told them that I knew who they were, that they kissed Băsescu's ass and I told them that they would kiss my ass, too, for what they were investigating me about. The prosecutor-journalist who kisses Băsescu's ass made an ill-intended investigation. I told him he would kiss my ass, too", Radu Mazăre declared.

Gift from gift is Heaven

Neither the chapter regarding " Pressures from authorities.

Political and economic pressures " is not forgetting the leader of Constanta administration. This time it is about the advertising contracts that the mayor has given using public money. And this time, "war" was given between Mazare and HotNews. For that matter also the mayor wage war against HotNews.

"Be