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The Senate chief, Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, told Parliament Wednesday that December 1 was "considered as an event resulting from a long series of episodes that led to the formation of the unitary national state. Romanians ". In his speech, the leader of ALDE has made no reference to the present, he only talked about aspects of the past.
"The day of 1 December is unanimously and rightly regarded as an event, among a long series of episodes that led to the constitution of the Romanian national state by unifying all the historical provinces in which they constituted An overwhelming majority Without a doubt, the first decision of the Assembly of Alba Iulia was the union of the Romanians of Transylvania, Banat, Maramures and the Kingdom of Romania. On 1 December, we celebrated the Romanians' decision, for a century, to live together as an indivisible nation, and it is also fair to commemorate every day on 1 December the Romanian assassins who, by the sacrifice of their blood, introduced the Romania in the world as a sovereign and independent state and have made possible the realization of Greater Romania, "said the senator. Calin Popescu Tariceanu.
He also said that the events of Alba Iulia were not only political expression, but also the "institutional crowning of a national revolution".
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"The unification was then not claimed as a metaphysical fulfillment of a secular ideal, but as an act of political lucidity, both democratic in thought and radically in action." has been proclaimed both as a historical reparation and a social project (…) So it may be time to agree that December 1 is not just the day the nation was made perfect by the union of all Romanians in the same state.On December is also the day we should celebrate representative democracy and pluralism, in which we should recognize the central role of democratic political parties in our contemporary history, a role as important as that of the army or governments, "Tariceanu added.
He quoted Montesquieu, who wrote that true patriotism means to love the laws of your country.
"Of course, if these laws deserve your affection, where there is freedom, there is my country and it has also strengthened Benjamin Franklin, so if we want to be inspired by the principles and values that have nourished the Resolution Alba Iulia, give us the reason why Romanians are true patriots and make Romania a homeland of freedom for all, all its citizens.We are those who have the duty to consolidate the democratic regime whose vision has instilled the Assembly of Alba Iulia on December 1, 1918 ", concluded the President of the Senate.
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