Parliamentarians argued about this on Tuesday at a joint meeting of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, where the Declaration of the Parliament of Romania was adopted on February 24, 2023, one year after the start of the Russian Federation’s war of aggression against Ukraine.

Diana Sosoake at the plenary session Photo: Inquam Photos / George Calin

The chairman of the session tore the microphone off independent senator Diana Shoshoka after she made public accusations of treason from the rostrum.

“Everything that their president tells us, because he does not represent me, a president with German citizenship, who serves the interests of Austria and Germany, who sells a country that he no longer owns, is unacceptable, that at this moment we are told that NATO a response force with a very high response capability has been deployed across the national territory,” Shoshoake said from the podium.

Soshoake continued his speech, warning that “we have one more step and we will probably be asked a month after entering the war, in violation of the Constitution, to approve the entry of Romania into the war.”

Diana Sosoake’s microphone was muted at this point.

“It is absolutely unacceptable that some colleagues came from some kind of bloodshed, here, on a daily basis, from the Russian embassy, ​​and I want to clarify this public information. Colleagues who spoke go every week, every month to the Russian embassy, ​​to the house of those who support the criminal Putin in this war,” replied NLP deputy Pavel Popescu.

AUR leader George Simion intervened in Diana Sosoake’s defense.

“Mr. Pavel Popescu may be part of the category of functionally illiterate who cannot understand speech. And you are in that category of extremists who want to put their fist in the mouth of both. We must assure all Romanians from the rostrum of the Parliament, no, we are not going to war, we are not sending our children to war. Romanians were too scared by the pandemic, repeated crises, no one is sending us to a war that is not ours,” said Simion.

At the joint plenary meeting of both houses on Tuesday, the Declaration of the Parliament of Romania on the completion of one year since the beginning of the Russian Federation’s war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2023 was adopted by 285 votes “for”, 5 “for”. against and 2 abstained.