MEP Diana Șoșoacă, president of S.O.S. Romania, sent an open letter to US President Donald Trump in which she speaks at length about what she describes as abuses by the authorities by banning inconvenient candidates from the presidential elections and using Romanian state institutions as a political weapon.
”To U.S. President Donald Trump
The intervention of the Romanian Constitutional Court against the candidates for the presidential elections represents an unprecedented fact and a de facto annulment of democracy in Romania, an EU and NATO member state and strategic partner of the United States.
The fact that the CCR prohibits some people from Romania from running for president, although there is no final criminal conviction prohibiting them from running for office, is proof that democracy is dead in Romania and is a signal to citizens around the world to stop believing in democracy. Surely Romanians already have no confidence in…
