Former President Emil Constantinescu claims he was not defeated by Securitate, but by the ‘Securitate’s media’ and believes that, in Romania, a head of state who is honest and doesn’t build up his wealth is considered a fool.
In an interview published on Thursday, Emil Constantinescu says he will never return to the political scene and that his statement at the end of his mandate was wrongly understood – that the Security has defeated him.
“I never said that. I said that the Securitate’s media defeated me. Those whom I have removed, went in the press. It is something else,” said the former president in an interview for ‘Ring’ newspaper.
Emil Constantinescu believes Romania can have an honest and correct president. “The people should accept that they could have a president who observes the law and is completely honest. However, in Romania a president who observed the law – in my case – was considered a weak president, while one who is honest and does not build up wealth for himself, for his family and his relatives, is considered a fool,” he said in the interview.
Currently, Emil Constantinescu is the president of the Cultural Diplomacy Academy in Berlin and is member of the board of the World Academy for Science and Art. “Thus, the Romanian wisdom, through me and my colleagues, is in the world’s top,” he added.
On the other hand, Constantinescu says the former leader of the National Peasants’ Party, Corneliu Coposu, has left him as his political descendant. “Coposu’s political will – the only one – lived through me as he had given it to me. Coposu’s testament can be summarized in the following phrase: the goal doesn’t justify the means, as if the means are not right, the goal cannot be achieved either,” the former president said.