BUCHAREST, Romania -- Documents purported to be transcripts of top-level ruling party meetings with ministers discussing intimidating opposition leaders and rigging votes in the Senate have surfaced ahead of Romania's Sunday elections.
Prime Minister Adrian Nastase has called the transcripts fakes, but they have become an unexpected campaign issue ahead of the fiercely contested elections.
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The documents, which allegedly record party meetings from the past 18 months, first appeared in Romanian newspapers on Tuesday. They depict senior Social Democratic Party members allegedly talking about instructing prosecutors to investigate opposition leaders.
The officials also allegedly propose tightening control over television and print outlets, and suspicious about civic groups which promote views that oppose those of the government.
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