Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Sorin Grindeanu accused the Save Romania Union (USR) representatives on Thursday of “betraying their country” in order to shield “a convicted man,” amid claims that the Renew Group, of which the USR is a member, had tried to push through a resolution in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) regarding the observance for the rule of law in Romania, agerpres reports. “In order shield a convicted man, the USR is betraying its country! It has crossed a line of political irresponsibility that no Romanian party should cross. The Renew Group, of which the USR is a member, has tried to push through a resolution in the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee that would call into question the observance for the rule of law in Romania. A resolution that could have reached the European Parliament’s plenary session if the voice of reason had not prevailed in the end.
The European Socialists have been with us from the outset and the resolution was a failure. Even the EPP [Group of the European People’s Party] changed its decision at the very last moment. One by one, the lies of the USR members and other right-wing traitors were countered with arguments,” Grindeanu wrote on Facebook. The PSD leader argued that the USR representatives had tried to use Romania “as a weapon in their own political war.”
“When foreign investment has already fallen by 80% under Bolojan’s tenure, what signal would such a resolution have sent about our country?! But the USR members have no limits. They wanted to use the country as a weapon in their own political war. When you call into question the rule of law in Romania, you damage our credibility in the eyes of our foreign partners.
Fritz is not Romania! He is just a politician convicted by a final court ruling. The USR is not Romania! They are just a pack of deranged traitors who sacrifice Romania’s interests and European funds to preserve their positions. Using the country’s image as a bargaining chip to exert domestic pressure is the ultimate proof of a lack of backbone, which Romanians will be able to punish at the ballot box! Until then, it remains as I said: the PSD will fight these traitors everywhere! Because every day they remain in power means another day that makes life harder for Romanians, another day in which the economy is being destroyed and the justice attacked,” Grindeanu concluded.
