The Public Association “Consumer Protection” calls on the people to take to the streets and to demand that the senior administration should resign. According to the Association’s chairman Piotr Guțul, despite the commitments to reform the justice sector and fight corruption that were undertaken by the country’s administration, the consumers are not protected by the justice system and the state.
In a news conference hosted by IPN, Piotr Guțul said the judicial system does not work.
“I urge all the consumers to come together for a protest and to demand that the President, Parliament and the Government should resign. We are witnessing large-scale thefts. 20 billion lei is not collected into the state budget each year. These are official data. The Prosecutor’s Office refuses to start criminal cases. The police do not do their job,” stated Piotr Guțul.
The Association’s chairman noted that he received a lot of complaints from consumers, who say that the state institutions ignore people’s rights. The Public Association “Consumer Protection” filed a number of lawsuits against the heat supplier Termoelectrica and the National Agency for Energy Regulation over the violation of consumers’ rights, but didn’t win the cases and will therefore go to the Supreme Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.
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