PMP's Basescu: Romanian language - strongest binder of nation; for Dragnea, Romania has become stall

People's Movement Party (PMP) Senator Traian Basescu criticizes the Government's decision regarding Romanian language classes in the minority-language schools and argues that for Social Democratic party (PSD, major at rule, ed.n.) leader Liviu Dragnea, "Romania has become a stall on which 'everything is for sale' " is written. 

"In August 2018, by means of Ordinance 9, it was established that in the primary education, in the classes with teaching in the languages of the ethnic minorities, the Romanian-language classes be taught by teachers that graduated from the Romanian Language and Literature Faculty. It was a correct measure, given that many of ethnic Hungarian primary school teachers and unqualified teachers trained in Hungarian-language schools may have difficulty in correctly speaking and writing in the Romanian language. That has angered the leadership of UDMR, [ the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania, ed.n.] which, with the complicity of PSD, is conducting an aggressive de-Romanianization and Hungarianisation policy of the areas inhabited by the Hungarian minorities. 

It was enough for UDMR to threaten that the national salesman, Dragnea, ordered Dancila [Romania's prime Minister, ed.n.] to cancel the text of Ordinance 9/2018. The text stipulating the learning of the Romanian language by all the citizens of the country was canceled immediately by an emergency ordinance," Traian Basescu wrote on Facebook on Friday. 

He added: "Where were the ?patriots' in ALDE [the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, minor at rule, ed.n.]?" 

"The Romanian language is the strongest binder of this nation. Selling the Romanian language in the centennial year is pure abjection. For Dragnea, Romania has become a stall that says 'everything is for sale', from natural gas, the endowment of the Army, positions of ministers and even the Romanian language," concludes Basescu.