Limit the confrontation with Romania's past secret service?

Romania's oppositional Social Democrats (PSD) want to greatly limit the independence of the authority that is examining the files of Romania's former secret service Securitate (CNSAS). Accordingly, the authority would only have a say in whether files were published but would no longer be able to disclose the names of Securitate collaborators. Iona Lupea explains: "This is not the first attack on the integrity of the authority. Over the past two years, there have been constant attempts to discredit this institution. … In fact, the authority's work has not wreaked any political havoc that could justify the fears of political parties. Even the PSD, the institution's bitter enemy, has been spared. ... But as long as people tend to glorify the communist totalitarian past as Romania's good old days - and ignore its mass murders - the PSD has ... no political legitimacy problems."

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