Nicusor Dan's victory also comes with the major responsibility of building a presidential mandate that does not ignore the past and does not bypass historical memory, says the executive president of the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism and the Memory of Romanian Exile (IICCMER), professor Daniel Sandru, PhD.
"It is a victory for those who believe in competence, honesty and the idea that politics must, above all, serve citizens and democratic values. But this victory also comes with a major responsibility: that of building a presidential mandate that does not ignore the past and does not bypass historical memory. I have repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that an authentic democratic society cannot function if it does not lucidly and responsibly assume totalitarian history. Communist totalitarianism is not a simple page in textbooks, but a deep wound in our collective memory, a reality that has destroyed destinies and mutilated consciences," Sandru writes in an open letter to the new president of Romania.
He emphasises that memory policies must become a priority for any democratic leader.
"Not just commemorations, not just speeches on anniversaries, but concrete actions, coherent and dynamic educational policies, living museums of memory, public spaces that speak about the suffering of the past and the resistance of human dignity," says the head of IICCMER. AGERPRES
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