Romania Ex President Accuses Acting President Of Close Ties With Communist Political Police

Constantinescu said in an open letter addressed to the civil society that he can bring evidence in court to back his accusations regarding the communist police affiliation of the Romanian head of state and of Stolojan, a former leader of the National Liberal Party.

"Two decades since the fall of communist dictatorship, paid for with the lives of thousands of Romanians, it was only through sustained and persistent manipulation that we have reached this situation in which a character who, in December 1989, was a second-rate communist activist and a long-term collaborator of the political police is now presented as a fighter against communism and is politically and morally supported because he condemned communism in a parliamentary show,” Constantinescu said in his open letter, adding that acting President Basescu himself should have been lustrated had the parliament adopted the lustration law, which was promised during the ceremony condemning communism.

The former president also said the current head of state is indicted in the biggest corruption trial in Romania, suspended with legal technicalities and pressure brought on by his holding the highest position in the state and it is immoral that he should come across as a fighter against corruption.

About the vice-president of the ruling Democratic Liberal Party, Theodor Stolojan, Constantinescu said he was a very trustworthy member of the communist-era political police.

The former Romanian president also said in his open letter that Romania currently has a single legitimate presidential candidate, liberal leader Crin Antonescu.

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