A propósito da inclusão de Monica Macovei na lista dos 12 terríveis candidatos identificados pelo Partido Socialista Europeu: Why are Europe’s Socialists defending corruption?
So what is going on here? The PES is an umbrella party, which includes the British Labour party and lots of wholesome social democrats from Nordic countries. Its boss, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, is a former Danish prime minister and a thoroughly decent chap.
But the PES also contains socialists from countries like Romania who are the former communist elite dressed up in new clothes. That has always been an uncomfortable problem for the pan-European party. During the Cold War, some of its western European members were brave supporters of dissidents and underground trade unions in the east. Its eastern European members include ex-secret policemen, communist apparatchiks and party bosses, who spent their Cold War repressing dissidents with great savagery.
This attack on Monica Macovei reads—not least because of the stilted apparatchikese in which it is written—as if it were dictated by Romania’s socialists. They certainly do not like Ms Macovei: after all, she tried to prosecute several of them, starting with Mr Nastase.
But the website belongs to the PES headquarters. So they have ended up bundling a brave reformer and fighter against crippling corruption with a British racist, as one of the 12 worst candidates for the European Parliament.
What on earth were they thinking?
sobre o autor
Jorge Assunção Autor do blogue Despertar da Mente e co-autor do blogue Delito de Opinião.
