The Group for Social Dialogue (GDS) notes with concern the contamination of the public discourse of the presidential candidates with populist, sovereignist and anti-democratic rhetoric.
"GDS firmly disapproves of the degradation of the political discourse of the presidential candidates. The future president of Romania cannot be populist, cannot be anti-EU, cannot be anti-NATO, cannot be Orbanist (directly Putinist under European camouflage), cannot be suburban. We ask the presidential candidates to respect European Romania through their discourse. GDS has always supported candidates with a European discourse, assumed both in terms of values and tone," reads a press release sent on Wednesday to AGERPRES by the GDS.
According to the same source, "if this type of discourse was predictable for the candidate of the extremist AUR (Alliance for the Union of Romanians) party, it is worrying to note that an independent candidate like Victor Ponta, theoretically coming from a left-wing party, has exactly the same anti-EU, anti-NATO and pro-Russian rhetoric as the former far-right candidate Calin Georgescu."
"It is even more worrying to note the populist degradation of the discourse of candidates from declared pro-European parties, such as Crin Antonescu and Elena Lasconi. Mr. Antonescu's speeches, increasingly conservative, draw comparisons between globalism and homo sovieticus and explicitly and repeatedly propose Viktor Orban as a model. As for her, Ms. Lasconi has on some occasions unexpectedly lowered her discourse regarding the opposing candidate Nicusor Dan, answering legitimate questions about possible negotiations for the unification of the candidacy through attempts at infantilization ("this boy", "I'm sending him after parsley"). (...) Unfortunately, the GDS is forced to note that for now there is only one candidate left in the electoral competition with this type of fully European discourse - Nicusor Dan," the Group for Social Dialogue claims in the same press release.
In this context, "GDS calls on all candidates for the presidency of Romania, especially those representing pro-European parties, to immediately resume a pro-European discourse, both in terms of values and tone - the only acceptable discourse for a president of Romania."
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