CNSAS to reveal compromised candidates' names before elections

Only a few days before elections, the names of the current MPs and those of the candidates who collaborated with Securitate will be disclosed by the National College for Studying the Securitate Archives (CNSAS), therefore the public opinion will found out whether Ion Iliescu belongs to this category, the way CDR 2000 leaders stated.

The National College for Studying Securitate Archives is to publish, at the middle of the current week, the entire list containing the names of Former political police informers who are running in the parliamentary elections, CNSAS chairman Gheorghe Onisoru at the end of last week stated.

“The Council has reached an advanced stage in checking all parties’ electoral lists. So far, we have managed to check 4377 people. We will observe the deadline imposed by the law and we will publicly announce the names of the current MPs who have been Securitate informers,” Onisoru stated, quoted by Mediafax.

He added that those candidates who turned out to be former Securitate informers would be heard at the beginning of this week.

At the beginning of this week, College members will gather in order to analyse the request formulated by CDR 2000 to, which asked for a verification of Ion Iliescu’s activity between 1974-1979, when he coordinated the Local Securitate Inspectorate of Iasi.

CDR 200 staff asks CNSAS to prove the fact that in the above-mentioned period, the Local Securitate Inspectorate of Iasi did not function as political police and that Ion Iliescu, who was a prime-secretary of the Communist Party Committee in Iasi, did not perform any activity aimed at helping the former Securitate with information.

The Convention believes that Iliescu used to be an informer as he controlled certain parts of the repression mechanism as PCR prime-secretary, alliance’s spokesperson, Peasant Mihai Gheorghiu, at the end of last week stated.

“This man coordinated parts of the Securitate system in the counties of Iasi and Timis,” Gheorghiu said, adding that assimilating Ion Iliescu to a Securitate informer represents CDR 2000 official point of view.