Senate President Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, on Tuesday claimed that Romania is facing "an attack of the parallel state" and stated that Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE), the political party he leads, has never stopped fighting this "parallel state" in the past years.
"This attack belongs to the parallel state, to those who are corrupted by power and want to control everything, and it's a powerful one. And this attack is also seen in the country and we can see that it started to manifest itself more and more abroad too. (...) ALDE, as a liberal party, has never stopped fighting this parallel state, for I believe that the essence of a democratic and liberal country is respecting without compromising the fundamental rights and liberties of the citizens. And I did this with the democratic weapons at our disposal, which are debate and voting for some laws that would prevent abuses or the organization of debates with the participation of magistrates, for the truth is that the majority of these people are honest people, which also drew attention on the bad influence of the parallel system," the ALDE head told a press conference.
In his opinion, some information - among which that related to the giving up by the authorities of the SPP protection and the exclusion from magistracy of a prosecutor - are only "the tip of the iceberg."
"How many Romanians are victims of abuses without us knowing, how far are the tentacles of the parallel state reaching? Every day we see more and more pieces of a huge puzzle that appear at the surface and they offer us a worrying image of today's Romania, a state where abuses are routine - a huge step backwards in terms of observation of the fundamental rights and liberties of the citizens, if I were to take the year 1990 as a landmark, when Securitatea was still, in the beginning of that year, very present in our minds and not only. (...) We live today in a country that seems like being under siege and the siege does not belong to the politicians who vote the justice laws, after a long debate that took months and was distorted as an action. (...) fighting corruption has nothing to do with the laws of organization of justice," said Tariceanu.