Senate's Tariceanu: Country is headed by puppet of those who have brought current president to power

The president, Klaus Iohannis, is the patron of the state's repressive system which in exchange uses the president as a puppet, on Friday said the Senate's President, Calin Popescu-Tariceanu.

The allegations were formulated by Popescu-Tariceanu after the public space was flooded with pieces of information that a surveillance mandate on his name existed in 2014, in the presidential election campaign. 

"The president's involvement - I said what it is. He is further the patron of the state's repressive system, that is using him as a puppet, to prolong, to perpetuate the crooked system settled in Romania. I believe that this is Romania's huge problem currently. Instead of him to take attitude and observe the promises and commitments he has made in the electoral campaign, to leave no more these inequities go on and return to what it really is a rule of law, he is patron to the parallel state. (...) I made the accusations, I told them very clearly, I voiced my point of view. And here surface the question marks. And the question marks cannot bear a full stop. We could align in a row all of the people who could have benefited. And I said one thing: today, in the forefront of the country lays the puppet of those who have brought to power the current president," Tariceanu told a news conference at the Parliament seat. 

Moreover he sustained that president Klaus Iohannis is leaning on the force institutions and cares not by the "gross infringement" of the citizens' rights and freedoms. 

"In the past 13 years, in Romania have performed three institutional actors who have perverted the good functioning of the rule of law: the president, the prosecutors' office and the services. (...) Further on, two actors have remained yet to perpetuate the system that had functioned before: the president and the prosecutors' office. As long as a president is leaning on the force institutions and doesn't care about the gross violation of the citizens' rights and freedoms,that means he is actually a puppet used by those who have created this crooked order and want to maintain, and which is works by the same rules as before. Specific rules, so to call them, well-known from the communist era," Popescu-Tariceanu said. 

The ALDE (Alliance of Democrats and Liberals, minor at rule, ed. n.) opined that president Iohannis is repeating "the mistake" of his predecessor, Traian Basescu, to using "repressive forces of the state in order to settle political fight." 

"He maintained, the took over exactly the same bad habits of Basescu's, less his qualities, of course," he added. 

"This period, when the debates on the Laws of Justice took place we have practically witnessed the creation of an extremely deep, dangerous fissure inside society, and we obviously ask ourselves what are we doing, who's contributing to smoothing asperities, to resolving disputes that become serious radical, violent issues. Instead of trying to play this role, the president is doing just the other way around. He is nurturing, stressing and aggravating through his attitude, through his statements this deplorable situation," Calin Popescu-Tariceanu assessed. 

The above-mentioned specifications were made in the context where on Friday the Facebook page of former SRI (Romanian Intelligence Service, ed. n.) Colonel Daniel Dragomir published a document that says that a judge with the Criminal Court of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ, Supreme Court, ed. n.) would have authorised a video, audio or photo surveillance, in 4 July - 2 August 2014, of several scores of persons, among whom Calin Popescu-Tariceanu.