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President-elect, Klaus Iohannis participates in ceremonies organised in Timisoara at 25 years from the December 1989 Revolution
President-elect, Klaus Iohannis participated in ceremonies organised in Timisoara at 25 years from the December 1989 Revolution. On this occasion, he said the political class is responsible for never succeeding in the past 25 years since the December 1989 Revolution, to create a proper space matching the people's aspirations, which otherwise was forced to leave the country.
'This nation has strong desires. Should it didn't have those desires, millions of Romanians would have never left for foreign countries. All of us who have been or are part of the political class, for 25 years or for a few months, we must sincerely and directly admit: yes, we do have a responsibility. The political class is responsible for never making it to build here, in Romania, a space for the achievement of these aspirations. (It is responsible) for not performing in accordance with its commitments, for underestimating the wish of progress and prosperity of the Romanians,' said Iohannis.
In his opinion, the great disappointment of the people didn't come only from the lack of results, but also from the lack of admittance of the undone obligations, from the fact that each and every time one moved on as if nothing had happened and because after unfulfilled promises new promises were made. He blamed the political class that it has never fully understood that with freedom comes responsibility, with power comes the responsibility to the people.
'The effects of this are seen everywhere. The relationship between the political class and the citizens has been deeply deteriorated. The partnership has been replaced with distrust. There are entire generations leaving the country to finding a job and there are children who grow up alone. There are young who never know where to go. There are people of my age (over fifty - editor's note) who hardly find their place in the society, although they lived both the communism's go-by and the transitions' hardships. They are our parents and our grandparents, who barely live from a pension and who have hoped all their lives in a change which has never come for real,' Klaus Iohannis highlighted.
In the end of his intervention, Iohannis said he wished that in December 2014 this historic chapter be closed and a new national project be started.
'This is what it has been until now. This doesn't mean that as of tomorrow we couldn't do things otherwise. On the contrary. Reconstruction starts with admitting the unpaid debts, with assuming responsibility and reconciliation with the past. We should reconcile with this past, yet not before we have learned its lessons, and look to the future. I wish that in December 2014 we close this historic chapter and commence, together a new national project. We should work consistently and coherently, step by step,' said Klaus Iohannis.
He noticed that neither the Romanians at home, nor the ones abroad could be enlightened that things are going better but when they would see that things happen like that literally.
'When they will see that there are jobs and decent salaries, that they have social health and education systems comparable to the ones in the Western countries. And, above all, when they'll see we don't accumulate unpaid obligations and we know what we want to do with the freedom we've gained. We cannot be the country of the projects always started and always unfinished, from the Fundamental Law to the freeways. The legacy of our Revolution makes us to a Romania of the thing well done, to a Romania where its citizens are respected and the state bodies are in the public service's interest, the projects are successfully accomplished and the value is appreciated and rewarded,' specified Klaus Iohannis.
The President-elect has laid, on Tuesday, two wreaths of flowers at the Monument of Heroes from the eponymous cemetery, in the memory of the martyred heroes of Timisoara. He emphasized, in a few words, the role that Timisoara had in sparking the Romanian Revolution of December 1989.