The mayor who compared the Recorder documentary with the execution of the Ceaușescus, harshly attacked from his own party. “Primitive Mindset”
After the liberal mayor of Iași, Mihai Chirica, said that he did not like the Recorder documentary “Captured Justice”, he received a harsh response from within the PNL.
The leader of the Iasi branch of the party, Alexandru Muraru, published a long message in which he strongly delimits himself from the statements of the mayor, denouncing a “public offense” on the part of Chirica.
“I categorically distance myself from Mayor Mihai Chirica's statements regarding the Recorder documentary and the recent history of Romania. They are incompatible with the values and principles of the National Liberal Party. In a moment of moral crisis of the Romanian state, we are not allowed to relativize the seriousness of the corruption phenomenon or the criminality of the communist dictatorship. Calling the Revolution of 1989 and the execution of a criminal dictator as “a disgrace” or “a misfortune” is not it's just a controversial opinion, it's a public offense. In a healthy public space, the mayor's statement is an alarm signal,” Muraru wrote, in a post on his Facebook page, on Friday evening.
According to the leader of the PNL Iași, the idea that the investigation and critical questioning of possible abuses in the judiciary would represent a form of “suicide” of the state is just as serious.
“This mentality, of primitive origin, confuses stability with silence and loyalty with complicity. The rule of law is not weakened by journalistic investigations or magistrates who break the silence, but by incompetence, networks of influence and the prescription of cases as the rule, not the exception. To call for account for these slips is not to “shoot” justice, but to clean it. The state does not commit suicide when it examines its justice system. It kills itself when it declares it beyond any question,” Muraru added.
If someone had hoped that the dysfunctions of the judicial system would be favorable to him, through postponements, blockages or the prescription of files, then, says the leader of PNL Iași, “the irritation towards civic protests and towards requests for reform becomes explicable in this crooked logic”.
“However, it is not a democratic logic, but a deeply harmful one, which reverses the guilt and treats the demand for responsibility as a threat. Finally, the reduction of public outrage to a “seasonal loaf” betrays a deep contempt for the citizens. The Romanians outraged by the recent revelations are not spoiled children; they are European citizens who refuse the transformation of Romania into a fiefdom. The freedom to criticize the power, be it political or judicial, is not a fad and cannot be ridiculed in public interventions in such a manner”, Muraru also states, who points out that his party “cannot stand in two places”.
“We cannot be, at the same time, the party of European reform and the modernization of the state, and the party that relativizes the Ceausist dictatorship and deplores the existence of independent journalistic investigations. This ambiguity is not only political, but above all moral”, concluded the PNL Iași leader.
“To be honest, I didn't cry”
Muraru's reaction comes after Mihai Chirica, asked on Friday on the “Radio Hit” channel how he thought the Recorder documentary, replied: “To be honest, I didn't cry.”
He made a direct reference to the execution of the spouses Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu, in December 1989, right at Christmas.
“I didn't even laugh, but I got such a fear, because I think we have become a cursed people. Around Christmas, we always make a big fuss, from the shooting of a dictator and other misfortunes… But what is happening, it seems to me, is below the average of the nation, that is, to shoot our judicial system in the head, considering it totally corrupt, it seems to me the biggest stupidity that the people could do Romanian against his own state”, stated Chirica, according to 7iasi.ro.
A PNL mayor of a big city, where he took to the streets, is totally against demonstrations related to the judiciary and says that Romanians “always make a loaf of bread before Christmas”
“I didn't like it at all. I'm not saying that there aren't dryness, I'm convinced. I could write two or three books about it, looking at my own skin, but that's not what we're talking about. Not about my problem, not about “X-ulescu's” problem,” Chirica declared.
“All those who really committed crimes will come out and say, you see, the system put me in prison, I was fair, I was Snow White, which is proven by evidence to be not fair, and those who really were victims of the system, that the “oranges” (no allusion to the prosecutor DNA Prahova Mircea Negulescu nicknamed “Orange”) we know very well that they were sold through Prahova county and other parties, Argeș, will support those who are really criminals and will say: “we were also victims” and we are creating a damnable chaos in which no one is right”, the mayor of Iași also claimed.
