Radu Mihail: Constitution of modern, free, prosperous Romania should have started with Point 8 in Timisoara

The Constitution of modern, free and prosperous Romania should have started with Point 8 of the Proclamation of Timisoara, with the conscious and assumed parting with the totalitarian past, Save Romania Union (USR) senator leader Radu Mihail declared in Monday's joint plenary solemn session of Parliament dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution, agerpres reports.

"We are a state that is slipping into failure and the 1991 Constitution is no stranger to what is currently happening. The Constitution of modern, free and prosperous Romania should have started with Point 8 in Timisoara [the Proclamation of Timisoara], with the conscious and assumed parting with the totalitarian past. The 1991 Constitution came after the "Sunday of the Blind Man" [e.n. - name given by the opposition to the elections of May 20, 1990, which coincided with the holiday] in 1990 and established the restoration of former communist and Securitate [e.n. - communist secret police] agents in Romania. It was written in the image and likeness of its recipient and author, Ion Iliescu, also known as a communist with a human face, and Antonie Iorgovan, also known as a communist with a law degree. Romania's constitution validated in the 1991 referendum was written by a president of the Association of Communist Students of the University of Bucharest for the president of the Union of Communist Youth. 30 years ago (...) I was asking people who were going to vote for the Constitution if they read the text and why they were voting for it. The answer was about the same for everyone - Ion Iliescu told us it was good. USR appeared because the Romanians were tired of being told by a chief and his cronies what to do," Mihail said.

He added that now the "system's people" keep talking about changing the Constitution, so that the president is no longer elected by the Romanians, "but by them".

"People without a face want the position of president of the Romanians to be put up for sale and traded between parliamentary groups, a currency in political exchanges, far from the eyes of the world and the eyes of the citizen. USR has defended, is defending and will defend the rule of law and the values of liberal democracy from all attempts to put state institutions, whatever they may be, at the disposal of criminals, tax avoiders, thieves from the state budget and the political conspirators who back them," Radu Mihail added.