“If this does not please people, then they will try other measures,” said Radu Magdin, an analyst for Smartlink, a political consulting company. “It’s very hard for the prime minister to have the credibility to say, ‘Yes, it’s all fine now, it’s over,’” he said. Huge street protests forced a former Romanian prime minister, Victor Ponta, who also came from the current ruling party, the Social Democrats, to resign in November 2015. At the time, Mr. Ponta was already facing corruption charges, the first sitting prime minister in Romanian history to do so. “You hear stories about mayors who are under pressure, neighbors protesting in front of their house,” Mr. Costescu said.

Source: New York Times February 05, 2017 21:10 UTC