March 8, 2021
Sorin Roșca Stănescu on the Sovereignty Act
“A law of national sovereignty?
And why not? Is it enough that sovereignty is provided for in the Constitution? Is it enough that officeholders are obliged to swear that they will respect the sovereignty of the Romanian state? Is it enough that we belong to the most powerful political and military alliance in the world for our sovereignty to be guaranteed? It has been shown that it is not. Perhaps nobody comes to seize our sovereignty by force. Perhaps nobody puts a pistol to our temple to make us give up attributes of sovereignty. But what happens if we do it ourselves, as has happened before in history? Perhaps, from this point of view, a special law of sovereignty is needed. But who is to make it?
The lawyer Dan Chitic is sceptical as to the consistency and force of the political will that might be shown to this end at the level of the parties or of Parliament. He believes that the citizens themselves should demand it. Using the provisions of Article 74 of the Constitution. Under that article, a citizens’ initiative enjoying the adherence of a minimum of 100,000 persons, that adherence being expressed under certain conditions, would be the most fitting path to follow. Is it possible?
I believe that only through a forceful expression of adherence by a very large number of citizens can a legislative solution of this kind be imposed upon parliamentarians of the various parties. I believe that only under formidable pressure, expressed unequivocally by a far greater number of citizens than that minimum of 100,000 provided for in the Constitution, will the parliamentary groups and the parliamentarians themselves be constrained to vote such a law in a proportion of at least two thirds of their total number. Once again I insist: the pressure must be truly formidable.
And here is why. A law of national sovereignty injures the interests of all those who stand to profit, and do profit, from the curtailing or even the amputation of the sovereign attributes of the state. For example, if you halt forest clearance altogether for a period of several years, out of a wish to let the forest fund recover, or if you merely halt the export of raw timber, you injure the interests of many commercial companies, some of which — such as Schweighofer — hold an enormous power over the authorities of the states from which they come, or even over the authorities of the Romanian state. And, by implication, their influence is exercised over certain parliamentarians as well.
Do you still remember the whole madness generated by the irresponsible environmental authorisation issued for the launching of the cyanide exploitation of the Roșia Montană perimeter? At that time there were quite a few parliamentarians, and even a prime minister in the person of Victor Ponta, who pronounced openly in favour of the exploitation. And, with Ponta’s help, there is at present a case pending against the Romanian state, from which damages of billions of dollars are being claimed. With great difficulty, at the very limit, Parliament then managed to impose its will and even to carry out a wide-ranging inquiry, which produced heads of accusation placed, with all the documentation behind them, at the disposal of the General Prosecutor’s Office. Which General Prosecutor’s Office then made no move whatever in defence of the interests of the Romanian state.
Or does anyone still remember the attempt I made, as a senator, proposing a bill by which the secret services would be forbidden to own commercial companies or NGOs? I was literally trampled underfoot, from left to right and from right to left. A sign that the interests of the secret services are exercised forcefully whenever necessary, including through certain parliamentarians.
More recently a terrible battle was fought, again in the Parliament of Romania, over the offshore law. A battle lost by the Romanian state. And, as anyone may observe, the foreign companies that will exploit for their own benefit the enormous natural gas deposits in the continental shelf of the Black Sea are already advertising from morning till night on the national television channels — a mendacious advertisement telling us that Romania will thus become energy independent. But we are not told how. Since the Romanian state will not receive free of charge, in the form of a share of the product obtained, so much as a single cubic metre of natural gas.
And as for the European waste mafia, with its enormous interests in Romania, which it is gradually turning into Europe’s rubbish pit — what can we say? What can we say other than that such operations cannot be carried out without the complicity of many authorities of the so-called sovereign state, which in their turn delegate part of their tasks to irresponsible parliamentarians?
The examples could unhappily go on. But I stop here, offering you two links which, if you follow them, will tell you more about this initiative — an initiative which, in my opinion, grows day by day and brings us the hope that it may perhaps rouse enough Romanians, far more than 100,000, for the law of sovereignty ever to come to be voted in the Parliament of Romania. For the time being, it is time for a responsible debate, and it is time for the citizens themselves to propose those fields and those regulations which cannot be absent from a normative act capable of protecting not only our identity but also our sovereignty.
https://m.luju.ro/legea-suveranitatii-avocatul-dan-chitic-propune-un-act-normativ-scris-exclusiv-de-cetateni-se-interzic-defrisarile-pana-n-2040-instrainarea-activelor-statului-si-concesionarea-resurselor-se-fac-doar-prin-lege-organica-adoptata-cu-majoritate-calificata-tra
https://ro.sputnik.md/analytics/20210126/33376744/Dan-Chitic-a-declanat-un-demers-fulminant-Legea-SUVERANITII--vor-fi-reacii-dure.html
https://uzp.org.ro/44766/legea-suveranitatii-modificari-de-ultima-ora-subminarea-economiei-nationale-se-va-pedepsi-cu-pana-la-25-de-ani-de-inchisoare/“
http://www.corectnews.com/politics/o-lege-suveranit-ii-na-ionale
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