Florina-Raluca Presadă (born 26 May 1978) is a

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n activist and politician who is a

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for

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since 2016.

Biography

Born in Bucharest, Presadă studied political science at the University of Bucharest, followed by a master's degree at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Between 2007 and 2016, she was a project coordinator at CeRe (''Centrul de Resurse pentru Participare Publică'', Resource Center for Public Participation), an NGO that encouraged

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. She was involved in public debates (for instance, she supports the municipalization of water in Bucharest), as well as protests such as the

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, and the

2013 Romanian protests against the Roșia Montană Project The 2013 Romanian protests against the Roșia Montană Project were a series of protests in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and dozens of other cities in Romania and abroad against the Roșia Montană Project, Roșia Montană mining project. The proteste ...

. In the

2016 Romanian legislative election Legislative elections were held in Romania on 11 December 2016. They were the first held under a new electoral system adopted in 2015, which saw a return to the proportional electoral system last used in the 2004 elections. The new electoral legi ...

, she was the candidate for Bucharest of the

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(USR), a

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Romanian party.

Political positions

Transparence and public communication

Presadă accuses the lack of transparence and she says she wants to change the way the Parliament communicates with the people, to remove the feeling of powerlessness felt when the public tries to interact with the decision process, as well as the disdain from the decision makers. As part of the transparence of the Parliament, she supports publishing the nominal votes on the Parliament's website, as well as public meetings for the Parliamentary commissions and an annual activity report for MPs.

Social issues

Presadă argues that there are many social issues which have been improperly (or not at all) addressed by the government. For instance, the government after school program for disadvantaged community (which could reduce the school dropout rate) was not properly funded and the government did not take necessary measures against

domestic violence Domestic violence (also known as domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation. ''Domestic violence'' is often used as a synonym for ''intimate partner ...

. Presadă supports a new national

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law, to replace and harmonize the plethora of laws and regulations (both national and local) about social housing, emergency housing and other types of

public housing Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, def ...

. She uses the example of Vulturilor 50, a case in which some families were evicted by the landlords and who were not able to find any social housing in Bucharest.

LGBT rights

In 2016, Presadă was among the 1,000 signatories of a letter in support of the

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community in Romania.Scrisoare deschisă de susținere a comunității LGBT
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Presada, Florina 1978 births Politicians from Bucharest Members of the Senate of Romania University of Bucharest alumni Romanian environmentalists Romanian women's rights activists Romanian human rights activists Women human rights activists Save Romania Union politicians Living people