Advertisement Continue reading the main story“I feel a bit better, but it isn’t enough,” said Mihai Saru, 20, a student. Mr. Dragnea said he was not sure he could “keep in check” his own party’s supporters. Mr. Dragnea is ineligible to serve as prime minister because he was convicted last year of electoral fraud, an offense for which he received a two-year suspended sentence. PhotoIt was unclear whether Mr. Dragnea himself would be in line for such a pardon, which would make him eligible again to be prime minister, but many on the streets believed he would have been. There was no question that this would have benefited Mr. Dragnea — saving him from a potential prison sentence — as the charges against him involved an amount of money below that limit.

Source: New York Times February 04, 2017 20:24 UTC