The adoption of the Lustration law is out-dated, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, Romanian ex-President believes. Elsewhere in the news, the financial crisis leaves mothers at the mercy of state authorities. Last but not least, Romanian Central Bank governor councillor says people in charge have known for several years now that salaries and pensions must be cut.
The adoption of the Lustration law is out-dated, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional, Romanian ex-President posted on blog, quoted by Romania Libera. He says the law is based on political decisions, subjective, opportunistic, serving the current power. He argues that the principle of collective blame breaches fundamental rights, since it excludes individual blames that could be subjected to a trial, Iliescu writes, quoted by Romanian news agency Mediafax.
He compares the Lustration law with the "successive dictatorships" from Romania, starting with the "royal dictatorship of Carol the Second" in 1940, when he could not attend the high school entrance exam because his father was a political detainee. Then he talks about the post-war period, with lustrations of the ex-land owners and capitalists, members of the bourgeoisie and their children.
Ion Iliescu claims that Provisional Council for State Union (CPUN) proved maturity in 1990, when, faced with a Lustration law proposal, rejected the proposal on the grounds of its non-democratic character. He claims a paragraph in article 11 addressed individual blames. According to him, the text read that people who committed abuses while holding political, judicial and administrative roles, who breeched the citizens' dignity and rights, the human rights could not hold public jobs.
Iliescu sees the adoption of the current Lustration law as written in a "retrograde spirit". The Chamber of deputies adopted the Lustra
