Iliescu, message for Romanians: “I would be glad that when you vote to think about the world you have not lived.”
Former President Ion Iliescu sent a message to the public at Podcast Avangarda, with Ionuț Vulpescu. He urged the citizens to vote “Possible worlds, not fantasies ”, and be “reasonable, the best antidote for political extremism of all kinds. ”
Ion Iliescu/Photo: Inquam Photos/George Călin
The former president said in the interview that he would be happy to know that when the Romanians vote to think “to the world they have not lived“And, when I work, to enjoy that I do”human and freedom”.
“Some of you were not born when I became the first president of a democratic country, called Romania. I am pleased that although we do not know each other, I have left you a world in which you can define yourself and where you can choose yourself.
I would be glad that when you vote to think of the world you have not lived, when you work, to be glad that you do it human and freedom, when you see the hatred of people against people, you never know the pain in the channel, from the gulag and the camp, but you have to remember to keep a stake. Freedom is the hardest support, especially when you receive it ready ”, Iliescu said.
He also urged the Romanians to vote “Possible worlds, not fantasies ” And don't forget that “In democracy we depend on each other, even if we do not know our biographies, lives and traumas. ”
“To vote for possible worlds, not fantasies; to care for real life, not utopias; be reasonable, the best antidote for political extremism of all kinds; do not forget that in democracy we depend on each other, even if we do not know our biographies, lives and traumas, we only know that we know. It obliges coherence and freedom ”, said the former president.
“I hope that you will not let democracy be forged.”
Iliescu said he has “hope” that the Romanians will not “That 1989 will be, for you all, something more than a highlighted event of history textbooks, but which still made possible the disappearance of Ceausescu's dictatorship and the end of communism in Romania ”.
“That you will not consider who has destroyed life more, far right or extreme left, but who has tried to save more lives, social-democracy or liberalism; that you will not be right or left because it is fashionable, but because you have what they mean and choose them with full consciousness and faith.
I would be glad to know that I leave behind a Romania in which the instinct of amateurs to confiscate roles that they do not know does not exist, in which everyone does what he knows and what can, a Romania in which freedom does not mean what I want, but what must, with a free consciousness. I hope that Romania's policy will be based less on taste judgments and more on reasoning judgments, that faith judgments will be done in the name of God, in churches, with full tolerance of people towards people, and political actions will be done in the public sphere, in the name of human dignity, with full lucidity ”, he said.
Last but not least, the former president said he wants the Romanians “A world without resentment ” and “Thank you that we are not only a country from the East, but a Euro-Atlantic society, as we deserve and deserve it. “
“I wish you a world without resentment, the maturity do not hate yourself for your vote and options, the joy of being with as few sacrifices, thanking that we are not only a country from the east, but a Euro-Atlantic society, as we deserve and deserve it. concludes Ion Iliescu.
