For more than four years now, Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR) MPs and party members have been the target of a veritable "propaganda machine", yet no one has reacted, the party's spokesman, deputy Dan Tanasa said on Monday in a reaction to the request by USR MPs that AUR's Mihail Neamtu be removed as head of the Culture Committee.
"Petty people always discuss petty subjects. Since December 6, we have been trying to return to democracy, we have been trying to talk about the coup in Romania, we have been talking to people about the Constitution, about the law. The USR had the opportunity to support a motion of censure against the government led by Ciolacu, but they effectively surrounded Marcel Ciolacu like a defense wall, like a shield," Tanasa declared in a press conference at Parliament.
Asked how he comments on Mihail Neamtu's public behavior, with reference to his use of licentious language, Tanasa replied: "For more than four years, a real propaganda machine has been unleashed against AUR MPs and AUR members, putting us through a barrage of curses, abjections, tossing at us all the slurs that can be thrown against a political party or against people. It's regrettable that neither the National Audiovisual Council, nor the Prosecutor's Office, nor the National Council for the Combat Discrimination, for example, didn't react when AUR members were labeled as Putinists, pro-Russians, Russian tins, xenophobes, legionnaires, Nazis; an absolutely abject language was directed against us. We are the target of offensive lingo in TV studios, we are labeled in every way, most often under the indulgent gaze of the moderators of those television channels that blatantly violate professional ethics by refusing to ask those who level such accusations to produce at least a shred of evidence in this regard."
"We stick by a principle. Mr. Neamtu is a perfect intellectual, no one can doubt this. He has very well fulfilled his responsibilities as chair of the Culture Committee. Regarding the political approach of those from USR, I repeat, petty people go after petty subjects," argued the AUR deputy.
The USR deputies demanded on Monday at the meeting of the Standing Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies the dismissal of AUR deputy Mihail Neamtu from the position of head of the Culture Committee for the public use of "completely inappropriate language."
USR mentions that in a video recently posted on social networks, Mihail Neamtu "reacts violently to people's questions regarding his connections and the money allegedly received from the sponsor of pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu."
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