![The case of Romania’s Family Referendum and the power of doing nothing Anti-Referendum Protest, Bucharest Romania](https://www.diggitmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/2_1_mobile/public/field/image/Protest%20Anti-Referendum.jpg?itok=eknlbgkV)
© photo by Nadia Saad @MozaiQ
When doing politics, doing nothing is clearly not the right approach – but doing nothing was the effective strategy by which the hateful acts of the Romanian government, framed as a Family Referendum, were stopped on the 6th and 7th of October.