Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Desperate dictator goes shopping. Again

by Craig Turp June 24, 2009 Romanian Politics

 Increasingly desperate to prove that he is a ‘man of the people,’ Romanian president Traian Basescu yesterday went shopping at Carrefour, in a carefully planned and stage-managed attempt to boost his flailing poll ratings, badly affected by the election – which his party arranged – of his daughter Elena to the European Parliament. Perfectly timed [...]

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