Mocking democracy [The politics of blowing up... everyone]

I guess democracy shows its value when it falls to the hands of a couple of hundreds Romanian MPs. The last one coming from Romanian "democratic" politicians gathered in the House of Thieves is this: they have dictated that for the May 19th [Orthodox Saint Patrick, which happens to be the family name of one of the most controversial Moguls pulling strings in Romanian politics] referendum the president cannot have TV and radio time for campaign, unless a party gives him its time. Marvelous, isn't it?
I bet no Western democracy could devise a hot trick like that: you have to vote for the president's fall or comeback, but the campaign shall be sustained by parties! "Incidentally," most of them [in fact, all but one, relatively poor represented in the House - o Thieves, yes] having the president as the public enemy no. 1. No president allowed! Ceausescu seems a little child. He would have had a decree for that. Of course, if it weren't his case. From now on, Romania is governed by a democratically elected junta.

I apologize for naming the Romanian Parliament "the House of Thieves." Hope that no honorable thief, looting small potatoes and some milk for the little one, will chase me for that. I would have called it "the House of Grand Larcenists," but - alas! - they need translation for such complicated terms.