Opposition MEP fears ‘civil war’ in Romania

Her recent statement is absurd. There is, indeed, a political struggle among the two leading parties, but from the misleading media coverage to the allegation of civil war is far the distance from earth to the sky! This woman has always made extremely controversial statements against her own country without much thinking. I am saying this as a Romanian living abroad. Many Romanians at home dislike her and the fact that she speaks in the name of Romanians. It is not true that Romanians are divided into two political parties. The vast majority does not care about any of them as it is well-known struggle for power. In any event, her morality is doubtful because she was a state attorney/prosecutor during the communism years. It is well-known that state attorneys have never been politically independent as they are all subordinated hierarchically. They are not judges, but magistrates, which is a different thing. She is close to Basescu whose political interests she defends fiercely. Therefore, her statements come as rather dubious and particularly impartial.
She is a disgrace for Romania together with other members of the European Parliament such as Adrian Severin, Gigi Becali, who is a famous illiterate, Vadim, who is an ultra-nationalist, and, of course, Elena Basescu, who bought herself as an MEP, being the dauther of the suspended president of Romania, Traian Basescu. Because his closed friend, Monica Macovei, has been the minister of justice in the past and because of the appointments of state attorneys and prosecutors in Romania are made politically, as those of the judges of the Supreme and Constitutional Courts, Romanian judiciary will never be politically independent. There has been no institutional reform whatsoever in this respect!!!!
To Monica Macovei: Please refrain from making such statements of civil war in an extremely peaceful country where poverty has been caused by the Liberal-Democrat ruling party. The opponents are the true Liberals. You may fight against the socialists, however, please be advised that France has changed and it is only a matter of time to see the same in Germany. Let us not forget that the Chancellor had votes against her from her own party when she was invested. Many Germans and Brits are now against the EU and since the EU president and commissioner Reading have both supported Basescu, who is very unpopular, the EU has become extremely unpopular at home. The Romanian population decreased dramatically which means EUROSTAT data needs to be updated. Less MEPs from Romania, please!!! They cost us a fortune and they hang around in corruption scandals, nepotism and incompetence.
I suggest that EU functionaries cut-off their huge salaries as the rest of Romanian, Greek, Spanish citizens and so on in the name of solidarity. Do not give advice from Brussels when you earn 20,000 Mr Barroso! A retired Romanian may have as little as 100-200 euros. Stop this ridiculous political game or the whole Commission will fall very soon. The unemployment is the highest. This should be your worry Mr Barroso, not the political struggle in Romania. Belgians did not have a Parliament for half a year and we do not have civil war there.
In conclusion, it appears a clear trend to shift from liberals to socialists, from labour to conservatives in the EU after two mandates. Basescu has already had two mandates of 9 years which is huge and Romania does not need another person to dictate and control a very fragile justice system for so long.
A born Romanian living abroad without watching the daily manipulations by Romanian TV and doubting the written media!

Dear Mr. Georgi Gotev,

I read your article on the recent declarations of MEP Monica Macovei regarding the political crisis in Romania and its possible consequences if the Ponta Government does not restore the rule of law as asked by the European Commission in the last Report on the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism.

I have to express my disappointment that, besides the inaccurate information that you used in depicting Ms. Macovei’s statements, one changed the original text of the article on Euractiv.com website. In this sense, I have to remind you that the 4th paragraph of the article originally sounded like this:

Asked to comment accusations of badmouthing her country and setting the tone for criticism from EU leaders and institutions, Macovei answered ironically: “Yes, I am very influential, everything I say and write is repeated by Angela Merkel and Barroso”.

A few hours later, unfortunately and inexplicably, the article gave up objectivity and the principle of accurate informing of the public and was modified accordingly:

Asked to comment on accusations of badmouthing her country and setting the tone for criticism from EU leaders and institutions, Macovei said: “Yes, I am very influential; everything I say and write is repeated by Angela Merkel and Barroso”.

Secondly, I would like to inform you that Monica Macovei did not have “access to transcripts of cabinet meetings in which the ruling Social Liberal Union (USL), led by Prime Minister Victor Ponta, was not impressed by the criticism of Western countries”, as you mention in your article. The transcripts you were writing about are transcripts of discussions among socialists and liberal leaders who were wiretapped by prosecutors in a criminal investigation regarding fraud during the referendum for the impeachment of the President and, also, regarding the USL attempts to clear out the electoral lists of the Romanian citizens living abroad.

These transcripts are public as the prosecutors made an official public request to the Parliament that the immunity of the minister of Administration be lifted. Only upon a Parliament’s decision criminal investigation against this minister can continue. The wiretapping was legal and had the approval of judge in a court.

As I am sure that you are very familiar with the Romanian politics (one can remember very clearly that you hosted, as moderator, a Romanian socialists’ hearing in the European Parliament against the President of Romania in January 2012), I kindly ask you to make the necessary corrections.

Sincerely yours,

Mihai Politeanu
Assistant to MEP Monica Macovei

I used to be a Romanian living abroad so I could never fully understand the severity of damage the political class (whatever the party) is doing to Romania. Now that I'm back, it's indeed worrying. Most people here could care less, but anybody who's politically interested has reasons to be concerned. I said it before and I'll say it again, the Romanian Mafia is the government.
http://expatro.blogspot.ro/2012/07/romanian-mafia-is-government.html