Alegeri 2008

  • Candidatul UDMR pe colegiul uninominal Africa – Asia la Camera Deputaţilor, Koto Iosif, a reuşit să obţină un mandat, prin redistribuire, după ce a reuşit să întrunească numai 34 de voturi. În colegiul său, numărul total al voturilor valabil exprimate a fost de 1.768. Pentru comparaţie, în unele colegii din ţară, candidaţi care au obţinut 10.000 de voturi nu au intrat în Parlament.
  • 6 din 15 parlamentari alesi in Dolj sunt de pe lista neagra a candidatilor murdari. Izmenele, zaharul si uleiul si-au spus cuvantul in Dabuleni si Geoana s-a ales cu 70% din voturi.
  • Virgil Pop a obtinut un mandat de parlamentar din partea PNL intr-un colegiu din Cluj, desi este in inchisoare, a anuntat marti Biroul Electoral Judetean Cluj, citat de Antena 3. Pop se afla in arestul Politiei Judetene Cluj pentru trafic de influenta.
  • Am scapat de Paunescu, Vadim, Becali sau Dragomir sau Netoiu. Am ramas cu dinozaurii Mitrea+sotia de data asta, Hrebenciuc, Tarata sau Nastase si Voiculescu si in plus ne-am procopsit cu Prigoana sau Nutzi Udrea
  • Exit poll-urile au fost varza, scuza oficiala fiind: Operatorii diletanţi, prea multă încredere în votanţii de la sat, dar şi fraudele electorale sunt câteva dintre cauzele neconcordanţelor mari dintre estimările INSOMAR şi CCSB după ieşirea de la urne şi numărătoarea Biroului Electoral Central.

UPDATE:

Si Bula a reusit sa intre in Parlament 🙂

    Eu votez. Tu?

    Da, votez. In ciuda faptului ca politicienii sunt tot mai corupti sau indolenti, iar unii dintre ei ne cred de-a dreptul tampiti. De fapt, tocmai din acest motiv votez. E dreptul meu de a incerca sa nu fim condusi de becali si analfabeti. Daca esti in dubiu sau nu te-ai hotarat cu cine votezi, iata mai jos cele mai utile informatii si instrumente pe care le-am gasit pe net. Poate te ajuta.

    Unde votezi?

    Afla in ce colegiu uninominal locuiesti si care sunt candidatii dintre care vei alege: http://www.apd.ro/votuluninominal/

    Cum votezi?

    Un scurt filmulet explicativ pe tema functionalitatii noului sistem de vot uninominal: http://www.happyfish.ro/reality/culisele_parlamentului/cum_votam_uninominal.html

    Ce votezi?

    Testeaza-ti Votul!”, proiectul initiat de Fundatia MRC cu sprijinul German Marshall Fund – Black Sea Trust , este un mod de a vedea ce contin programele partidelor pentru alegerile din Noiembrie 2008 si care dintre aceste propuneri este mai aproape de opiniile tale.

    Pe cine votezi?

    Acesta e un aspect despre care probabil s-ar putea scrie la nesfarsit, pentru ca dragii nostri parlamentari duc o lupta grea sa ne dea subiecte si teme de gandire cat mai variate, pline de intelepciune si responsabilitate.

    Sunt de remarcat doua proiecte insa. Primul, cel al Asociatiei Pro Democratia, Un vot uninominal curat, in urma careia APD a intocmit o lista a candidaților incompatibili cu functia de parlamentar, fiind vorba de candidati-traseisti, care au trecut prin mai mult de doua partide, precum si candidati implicati in cazuri si scandaluri de coruptie si sau alte fapte neortodoxe aflate in atentia mass media.

    Iata lista candidatilor murdari din judetul Dolj:

    PSD-PC (7): Mircea Geoana, Lia Olguta Vasilescu, Maria Antoaneta Dobrescu, Maria Schutz, Petre Petrescu, Ioan Calin, Valeriu Zgonea
    PDL (5): Eugen Georgescu, Radu Berceanu, Constantin Iancu, Mihai Lupoi, Stelian Voinea
    PNL (2): Calin Viorel, Mihai Voicu
    PNG (2): Gheorghe Daniliuc, Victor Odolbasa
    PRM (2): Constantin Dily Serbanoiu, Viorel Lis

    Cel de-al doilea proiect remarcabil in seria celor de desconspirare a constiinciozitatii parlamentarilor romani o gasiti la vivi. Este vorba de lista prezentei si implicarii parlamentarilor romani, atat senatori cat si deputati, in ultimul mandat in ceea ce priveste prezenta la seditele camerelor, si luarile de cuvant pe care le-au avut, precum si care dintre ei au patriotismul sa se mai sacrifice un mandat pentru tara. No further comment. Link

    Romania, Branding and Wally Olins

    Wally Olins, creator of the country brands for Spain and Poland, stated at the official launch of his book titled Wally Olins on Brand, he would like to design Romania’s country brand, though he received no offers in this respect yet. Wally Olins stated that his branding consulting services would cost the Romanian State approximately EUR 1 million a year.

    Olins added he would accept to be in charge of Romania’s country branding on several conditions: that the authority to which he would report is clearly defined, that authorities understand this is a long-term process and that, in case of a change in political power, the brand research and construction process in Romania will not be suspended.

    Ollins is famous worldwide for his contribution to the creation of brands like Orange, Guinness, Renault, Volkswagen and British Telecom. Asked to explain the elements that make a brand successful, Ollins replied:

    A brand is expressed through the product, the environment that surrounds it, communication and behavior. An Audi dominate through its presence, Coca-Cola prevails through communication but the Parliament Palace in Bucharest dominates its surroundings through its sheer size. Coca-Cola is that brown drink that has no clear element to define it, but is recognized all over the world.

    2007 Index of Economic Freedom

    The 2007 Index of Economic Freedom measures and ranks 161 countries across 10 specific freedoms, things like tax rates and property rights.

    The 2007 methodology has been revised to provide an even clearer picture of economic freedom by using data-driven equations rather than performance brackets which allows countries to be graded using a percent score rather than a 1.5 rating. In addition, labor freedom has been added as a variable. We continue the tradition of blending “Ten Freedoms” equally to produce a simple, unbiased overall score for each country.

    The new methodology (probably) helped US to climb back in the Top 10 after 2 years of absence.

    The 10th criteria the top is based on are:

    • Business Freedom
    • Trade Freedom
    • FiscalFreedom
    • Freedom from Gov’t
    • Monetary Freedom
    • Investment Freedom
    • Financial Freedom
    • Property Rights
    • Freedom from Corruption
    • Labour Freedom

    Romania managed to get to the 67th place in the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom, climbing from 125th position in 2005 and 92nd in 2006.

    Out of these Romania scored below world average on Monetary Freedom, Property Rights and Freedom from Corruption.

    Here is the top 10:

    1. Hong Kong
    2. Singapore
    3. Australia
    4. USA
    5. New Zealand
    6. UK
    7. Ireland
    8. Luxembourg
    9. Switzerland
    10. Canada

    Read more about it here.

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    2005 Index of Economic Freedom

    2006 Corruption Perception Index

    cpi2006 mapAs the 2006 Corruption Perception Index is out, Romania is just one place up from the last year survey and still behind countries like Bulgaria and Moldova.

    The 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index is a composite index that draws on multiple expert opinion surveys that poll perceptions of public sector corruption in 163 countries around the world, the greatest scope of any CPI to date. It scores countries on a scale from zero to ten, with zero indicating high levels of perceived corruption and ten indicating low levels of perceived corruption.

    Also, the top 10 remains virtually unchanged from last year:

    1 Finland 9,6
    1 Iceland 9,6
    1 New Zealand 9,6
    4 Denmark 9,5
    5 Singapore 9,4
    6 Sweden 9,2
    7 Switzerland 9,1
    8 Norway 8,8
    9 Australia 8,7
    9 Netherlands 8,7

    Noteworthy examples of countries whose scores suffered biggest deteriorations from CPI 2005 to CPI 2006 are Brazil, Cuba, Israel, Jordan, Laos, Seychelles, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and the United States. In these cases, actual changes in perceptions occurred during the last two years. On the other hand improvements can be observed from 2005 to 2006 for Algeria, Czech Republic, India, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Mauritius, Paraguay, Slovenia, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uruguay.

    WikiMapia

    Collaboration + tagging + Google Maps = one of the most interesting Google maps applications so far. People are basically tagging places around the world on GMaps.
    wikmaps

    Here is the link for Bucharest.

    Romanian Blogging is Going Mainstream

    Besides some long discussed and not that good articles in which romanian mainstream media talked about the growing blogosphere there are some good things happening lately.

    hot news bloggingI’ll start with the last that I personally noticed: Hotnews.ro, my favorite news source, started blogging at blog.hotnews.ro. Excellent news and I hope the blog will be at least as good as the site itself. This blogging initiative is basically following the, probably better known, one of Evenimentul Zilei. And more than that there is another blogging attempt: Blogul lui Dinescu, which I was actually expected for a while now. It is a beginning and I’m still looking for some of the big names to jump in.

    RoBlogFest 2005More than that, Dragos is hosting the RoBlogFest 2005 2006 . Check it out and go find out more about romanian blogs, read, make up your mind and vote, as you can do it until next thursday, March 9th.

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    Romanian Highways

    From the category “I live in a country where you can never get bored” here is one thing I think I knew, but never actually saw the numbers:

    The time span between the political decision and the inauguration of one kilometer of highway is 58 (yeah fifty eight) months, which means 4 years and 10 months. That because of some time consuming procedures. That means 50 cm of highway daily.

    For the romanian language readers, more about it here.