At some point you will be called to account for your actions, said prime minister Marcel Ciolacu on Thursday evening, on the Antena3 private television, referring to the idea of limiting the mandates of secret service heads to a maximum of two, which he added he will rise in the Supreme Council of National Defense (CSAT) reunion.
Ciolacu was asked if, in his opinion, the National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) criminal file in which the former first deputy of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), general Florian Coldea, is being investigated among others, represents a national security problem and if he will propose a discussion in the CSAT on this subject.
„We are specifically talking about a case, the Coldea case. It is a precedent, at this moment, created. Who suffers – primarily the institution of which he was a part. Who else suffers? The Romanian state and the credibility of the Romanian state. The moment the Romanian looks at the television and sees that people who have managed the intelligence have created a network to extract money, commit acts of corruption, at that moment trust in the normal Romanian state decreases. That’s why I said: sir, it’s a very serious discussion, it’s a discussion that we have to have institutionally,” Marcel Ciolacu stressed
„We have an outdated legislation that no one has assumed so far. (…) No one has changed that legislation since 1992. (…) Immediate, institutional measures can be taken at each institution, because agreements and employment contracts are signed, I suppose, or we will enter the select committees in Parliament, in the monitoring committees. I think, from the position of Prime Minister I will raise this discussion in the CSAT together with all the directors of the institutions, to see what the approach is: do we speed up the legislative amendment, can measures be taken in each institution? And we make very clear rules for everyone,” Marcel Ciolacu said.
„We have entered an area, Romania has entered an area of stable, consolidated democracy. We must also have the legislation to provide for this. (…) In Romania there have been great abuses, I know it, and you know it, too. I promised and I kept my word until now that I will never talk about a magistrate’s decision. But I can’t say that nothing happened. Destinies have been destroyed, there are people who have died of cancer, who have been acquitted after decades, entire families, politicians who have seen their careers finished. I don’t know where the journalists found that I was pursued for six months, eight months. Truly, I was aware of this. I was also invited to see the evidence and what was recorded during that period. I refused this. So there was a system of operation. What is important is: no one is above the law, no matter what they call you, you are at some point called to account for your actions,” premier Ciolacu said.
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