All newspapers on Wednesday announce the protests downtown Bucharest as Parliamentarians prepare to vote the motion of censure initiated by the opposition. Elsewhere in the news, the government coalition and IMF representatives was a fiasco.
Unions gather up 100,000 people at the protest downtown Bucharest and all newspapers read that this will be the biggest protest after the revolution. Romania libera reads that union leaders declared that people will demand the resignation of the government.
Union leaders initially announced that they will gather 80,000 people but these days they appealed to all unsatisfied groups - retired, students etc to join their protest. Unions will gather in Victoriei square, in front of the government where they will protest for an hour and then march towards the Constitutiei square.
The newspaper reads that two days before the protests, some institutions threatened their employees that if they will attend the protests, they will get laid off. Several such examples were put forward by the president of the national union block, Dumitru Costin who said that there are many people who complained of the same treatment.
The transports authority made pressures to transports companies to cancel contracts with union leaders to transport them to Bucharest. He added that such incidents were noted in Brasov, Iasi, Alba, Braila, Teleorman, Arges counties.
Gandul warns that Bucharest will be paralyzed by the protest. Aside from unions, PSD members will also attend. The newspaper reads that the opposition parties managed to activate members to join the protest.
Thousands, possibly tens of thousands of members or supporters of the party will arrive in Bucharest to protest together with the unions. Tens of buses ordered by Social Democrats across the country will arrive in Bucharest.
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