A Centenary-worthy gift for thugs: amnesty and land bondage

Teodorovici, the eternal public sector official, the friend of club owners, and the enemy of private enterprise, has inadvertently leaked PSD’s true thinking regarding members of the diaspora: considering them wretches who should be tortured and held in land bondage. PSD’s dream of tormenting those having escaped the country, sits along another of its most ardent desires: total amnesty for its leaders. In the Centenary year, these are Liviu Dragnea‘s party’s gifts for Romanians.

In vain did Eugen Teodorovici tour TV studios on Tuesday evening, hoping to nuance his position. His initial statement was not a mishap. On the contrary, he himself told RTV that he realized it would ignite controversy. The proposal to cap Romanians’ right to work in the EU to five years has sparked the fury of millions of expat Romanians, many of them having fled precisely in order to get rid of Teodorovici and his party colleagues.

Certainly, given the four million citizens who have chosen to leave at a rate exceeded only by migration from Syria, Romania suffers from an acute labor force problem. Of course, any government in the world must look for solutions to stop this drain and repatriate the most productive of the workforce. But finding solutions comes after identifying the causes.

The causes lie before PSD’s very eyes. The causes are to be found within PSD. Some of them are primordial: lack of equal opportunities, precarious access to education and health, impunity for high-level, generalized corruption.

With everything it has been doing for the past two years, the PSD has further deepened all of these rifts.

In education, the Pop-Popa-Andronescu ignorant triad dismantles daily the few good things left standing. All they do is support party clients – from the single text-book to the differentiated baccalaureate, from the multiple-question exam to the differentiated salary. Behind these seemingly disparate actions one finds the interests of the diploma “factories”, long-standing PSD sponsors. Why should one stay in a country that gives graduate diplomas to semi-literate students, some of them even becoming ministers a few years later?

In healthcare, the confiscation of public money has reached unimaginable levels. An ever-increasing budget and billions of euros of European funds are never enough: hospitals lose their physicians, and have no adequate machines; chronic lack of vaccines and medicines; overpriced acquisitions to the benefit of the university mafia well implanted at the top of the party. On top of all this, PSD also gave up the three regional hospitals co-funded by European funds. Instead, it promises eight hospitals, made by public-private partnerships. We’ll see them when pigs will fly.

As far asquality of life is concerned, things are rough. Living in Bucharest is a perpetual torment, everything is geared against its inhabitants: poor public transport, chaotic traffic, non-functional traffic lights, murderous pollution. Why remain the prisoner of such a city?

All these things drive honest people, the workers, crazy. Add other ingredients: nepotism and the sea of mistresses which PSD has planted in the administration, paying them exorbitant wages; constant damaging measures against the environment; legislative inconsistency.

However, the main cause for leaving is injustice. Widespread corruption has become politically acceptable under the PSD. Dragnea’s party, with its great sponsors, has destroyed much of the judiciary: laws, institutions, processes. There are a few retreats lead by a handful of brave individuals.

Since this does not seem to be enough, they want more, the most, maximum: amnesty and pardon. Vâlcov verbalized it a few months ago – this would be the right gift for the Centenary. He is the man sentenced to eight years in prison in a first instance for unimaginable corruption at such a level. Dragnea is the engine behind these efforts, and the gasoline that feeds it is pumped by individuals in possession of a huge financial force.

In the end, they will do it, because the window of political opportunity remains open until the end of December. Now that they have removed any opposition from the government, only the PM’s misgivings are still a conecrn. This will be the true centenary of thugs who will greatly enjoy having a country of their own.

Traducerea: Ruxandra Stoicescu