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More than two decades after the fall of the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, the Romanian Parliament adopted, on Tuesday, the so-called Lustration Act. The bill is targets who participated in the repressive apparatus of the country's Communist Party (PCR) and states that "former leaders of the PCR, ministers, prosecutors, those in the secret police can no longer be appointed to public office," once the bill goes into effect, explains Bucharest daily Evenimentul Zilei. According to Adevărul leader writer Grigore Cartianu, this law is useless because it comes too late :
Adopting it now that it cannot produce significant results is akin to someone trying to commit suicide by jumping on the tracks after the train has already passed.
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