“The greatest affront.” The flags of Hungary and the Szeklerland, flown on an investment financed “from Romanians' money”
PSD MEP Dragoș Benea criticizes the way in which the inauguration of the rehabilitation works of the Rákóczi Fortress in Ghimeș was marked, accusing the lack of the Romanian flag and the hoisting of the flags of Hungary and the Szeklerland, at an objective financed by the National Investment Company.
MEP Dragoș Benea, PSD vice-president and president of the local Bacău branch, reacted with indignation to the way in which the inauguration of the rehabilitation works of the Rákóczi Citadel in Ghimeș, Bacău county was organized, speaking of “the biggest affront to the Romanians”, given that the Romanian flag was completely absent from the event, instead the flags of Hungary and Szeklerland.
In his opinion, such a situation is unacceptable in an official framework associated with an investment financed from public money through the National Investment Company and cannot be reduced to a simple negligence of protocol, but raises serious problems of symbolic representation of the Romanian state.
In a message published on Tuesday, May 26, on Facebook, PSD leader Bacău harshly criticized the entire event and insisted on the fact that Romania's national symbols were completely absent from the inauguration.
“We could not leave out, as if it had not happened, the fact that on Friday, in Ghimeş, the inauguration of an objective financed by the Romanians' money (over 1.3 million euros), carried out by the Government of Romania through the National Investment Company: the completion of the rehabilitation works of the Rakoczi “fortress”, in fact the former customs point that separated Romania from Austria-Hungary, and the putting of the objective into the public circuit were marked within a an event from which the national symbols of the Romanian State were COMPLETELY missing!
We can hardly find a greater affront to our image, as Romanians, especially in the conditions where the flags of Hungary or the Szeklerland, a fictitious political-administrative entity, were flying in the immediate vicinity of the “citadel”. It is a gross form of disloyalty to Romania and its Government, which supported the rehabilitation works, although, if we are to think honestly, we cannot say that this was precisely a national emergency.
All the more, since in Bacău county we have countless objectives of overwhelming importance forgotten in disrepair – such as the Rosetti Mansion from Căiuți, for example – or, to come closer to the CNI, the historic building of the County Emergency Hospital that the Company has been holding, for 8 years, in an endless construction site. We are talking here about patients, not about nationalist nostalgia wrapped in a populist form by some Hungarian politicians who, later, are “struck” by surprises related to the rise of extremism.
There is no better fuel for extremism than the type of arrogance evident in the event in Ghimeş, where – in a small way, in a big way – the authorities defied the very insignia of the state they swore to serve (and which pays them for it). A big black ball for both the prefect and the president of the CJ, including for the mayors present on the spot who forgot the tricolor scarf at home that they must wear, according to the law, when they represent the UATs in an official setting (as, incidentally, was the event in Ghimeş).
I let some time pass, out of respect for the Catholic Pentecost, but I cannot overlook this behavior which seems to me to be nothing more than a banal escape: it is more than that, and the Hungarian politicians who still have “epiphanies” related to the revival of extremism should remember that they have become the “servants” of political radicalism through the kind of demonstration they staged in Ghimeş”. reported Dragoș Benea.
