Like most Romanians, Marian earns in RON but has loans in euros. 'It's been terribly hard this year with the economy going bad, but it seems that it can get even worse now, due to this political circus,' said Alina Marian, whose monthly bills to different banks amount to 80 percent of her total income at the moment. The events leading up to the first toppling of a government - led by the centrist Prime Minister Emil Boc - in post-communist Romania have led people here to have doubts about the country's stability.Ī primary concern of millions of Romanians is that political insecurity would cause a further devaluation of the national currency RON against the euro, and therefore ever higher loan payments, since many loans are denominated in euros. Mirela's anger is by no means an exception in this city of 400,000 a day after the minority government fell after a no-confidence vote in Parliament. The country is sinking and they could not care less.' 'And it's all because of their stupid political games. 'In half an hour the euro went up three times,' she said.
16, 2009 Romania mired in political instabilityĬLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania - As she is having lunch in a small fast-food restaurant downtown, Mirela Popa cannot take her eyes off the currency exchange board across the street.
