Online Jewish personalities complain about undemocratic representation

Hermannstadt – Eighteen public figures who value their Jewish identity and membership of the Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities (FCER) wrote a public letter to Aurel Vainer, the acting chairman of their federation, on Friday, November 13th, in which they urgently request that Silviu Vexler’s nomination for the internal election for the office of future FCER chairman be reversed. The signatories of this letter have no objection to Silviu Vexler applying for a further mandate as an FCER member in the minority group of the Romanian Parliament, but they have doubts about the transparency of the internal appointment procedure, which was held in the run-up to the parliamentary election campaign . The undersigned also include Tiberiu Roth, chairman of the Zionist Association of Romania, and Marco M. Katz, vice-chairman of the same association, who take offense at the information that the Wednesday 25th November and Thursday 26th November Planned election for the FCER chairmanship against all pandemic high risk with the provision of physical presence at the ballot box instead of the possibility of online voting.

The public letter to the incumbent chairman of the FCER disapproves of the plan to entrust Silviu Vexler with the membership of the parliamentary group of national minorities in the Romanian parliament and the internal chairmanship of the national minorities in the near future, and does not explicitly remind, but indirectly, that At the beginning of July 2018, Silviu Vexler openly voted for an amendment to the penal code, which at the time was waved through by the majority, contributed to the softening of the concept of corruption and emerged from a reprehensible initiative of the government Social Democratic Party (PSD) (see also “The comfort zone More secular internal criticism can strengthen Christian Romania “in the ADZ of July 3, 2020):” We, the undersigned of this letter, believe that a person, no matter how prepared and competent, is not both political as well as communal functions one can (…) The occupation of the role of FCER chairmanship by someone who is perceived in Romanian society as a person close to a certain political wing, by its very nature harbors the risk of defamation of the FCER and all Romanian citizens of Jewish identity , including those who are not members of the FCER (…) The role of the chairman of the FCER and all other members of the Federation Board must be precisely to find the balance in the activity of the FCER and the activity of the MP who is responsible for it Institution in the parliament of Romania to monitor. ”On the list of signatories of the letter are the names of intellectuals such as Prof. Dr. Corneliu Sabety (Craiova), member of the Romanian Academy, Dr. Liviu Rotman (Bucharest), Professor at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Dr. Maria Roth, Professor at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Klausenburg / Cluj-Napoca (UBB), Dr. Andrei Schwartz, member of the FCER board, Dr. Michael Shafir, Professor at the UBB, Dr. Victor Neumann, director of the Art Museum Timişoara, literary scholar Júlia Szilágyi, psychologist Ligia Weiss, architect Lou Gelehrter, Dr. Daniel Löwy, member of the FCER board, and lawyer Dr. Victor Marcusohn (Bucharest).

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