The REPER Party calls on all MPs to support its request for the establishment of an inquiry committee, after the shocking revelations of abuse on the residents of several elderly care facilities in Voluntari and Afumati – Ilfov County, write Agerpres.

„Considering the PSD government’s attempt to punish just a few scapegoat petty officials and to shield from political responsibility the ministers in charge, Gabriela Firea and Marius Budai, we consider it is necessary for Parliament to exercise its power entrusted by the citizens and call everybody with competence in this horrific case to public hearings. Today we sent the list of signatures for the establishment of this inquiry committee to the leaders of the Save Romania Union, the Force of the Right, the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania, and the National Liberal Party. We call on all the leaders and lawmakers of these parties to help clarify this situation by ensuring the number of signatures required for the establishment of the inquiry committee, because Marcel Ciolacu and PSD clearly want to bury this subject that involves two of the party’s ministers,” REPER Co-Chairman and former Minister of Labor and Social Protection Dragos Pislaru said, as cited in a statement of the political formation.

REPER Co-Chair, MEP Ramona Strugariu states that it is Parliament’s duty to identify the responsibilities of certain ministers and political leaders for what happened in the Ilfov nursing homes.

„The media has done its duty and revealed the political connections between those who managed the homes where vulnerable people were beaten and starved. It is now Parliament’s duty to clarify through a parliamentary investigation what the direct responsibilities of certain ministers and political leaders are for these horrors. The citizens must know that there is no impunity for politicians who mistreat people in pain, trample on their dignity, steal their pensions and homes. In the ’90s we had the orphanages of horror. Almost 40 years later we have the horror nursing homes, with exactly the same perpetrator profile,” said Ramona Strugariu.

Setting up an inquiry committee requires the signatures of a quarter of the lawmakers, i.e. 117 signatures.