revolutionaries

The Romanian Government will not amend a law that cut state allowances for revolutionaries, the institution said in a press release Tuesday.

Over 300 Romanian revolutionaries are protesting in the University Square in capital Bucharest, calling on the Government to resign and demanding early elections.

Representatives of several organizations of Romanian revolutionaries assembled Monday outside the Government building calling on Prime Minister Emil Boc to clarify plans regarding their state allowances.

Romania’s Government decided that social benefits for December 1989 revolutionaries will be postponed and paid in installments during the 2012-2014 interval, but the decision will not affect current payments.

The head of "21 Decembrie 1989” association, Teodor Maries, went on hunger strike Tuesday, in front of presidential Cotroceni palace, urging Romanian President Traian Basescu to intervene so that all files of the anti-communist Revolution in December 1989 and miners’ riots in 1990 are declassified.

Participants at the protest in front of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) headquarters on Bucharest’s Kiseleff Boulevard were dispersed Thursday after the intervention of gendarmes.

Some 150 - 200 members of the Romanian National Revolutionaries’ Bloc (BNR) are protesting in front of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) headquarters on Bucharest’s Kiseleff Boulevard, blocking traffic in the area.