The director of the National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania “Elie Wiesel”, Alexandru Florian, has sounded an alarm about the “recrudescence of the extreme right” and showed that it is at a level “not encountered” in the last eight decades.
Alexandru Florian, director of the “Elie Wiesel” Institute in Romania
“I believe that the enemies of democracy are not tik tok or other social networks. Whether or not TIK tok should be forbidden and so is a discussion. I see that the European Union is concerned about this topic, but they have not yet been able to have a definitive attitude. I believe that the subject is the extreme right, “said Alexandru Florian, on Friday, in the debate” Extreme right again in the Ancest.“According to Agerpres.
The director of the Elie Wiesel Institute believes that the far right is ascension in both Europe and in the US.
“The far right does not mean tik tok, it does not mean communication networks, it does not mean facebook, it does not mean TV channels, so the traditional means of communication, or the press, the media, in general. It is this extreme right, which, indeed, is an unpleasant coincidence, when a round figure-80 years after the release of the Auschwitz camp is commemorated-and, to speak in symbolic terms, the rebirth of the Holocaust survivors, Let us really attend Romania and in Europe and the United States to a recrudescence of the extreme right, which has not met for 80 years. We are at a level not encountered until today ”, Alexandru Florian continued.
He believed that a wider reaction from civil society and mainstream parties would have been needed, parties say they “did nothing to try to diminish the extreme right” between the two tours of the presidential elections. .
In the opinion of Alexandru Florian, “a conservative and extremist tendencies were formed ”and there is a need for traditional means of communication “much more civic and much more aware”.
“So, you need many years of training, until we have nothing to do, we have to see what will happen from the elections. So I think, fas a mobilization of civil societyof the media, which is the seventh power in the state or exerts pressure on public institutions, and if these mainstream parties in Romania, so if that 65% of the Parliament does not realize and not wake up and does not speak, it does not give replicas from the extremism Romania, in May we will be able to have any result. And I think these should be the messages to give: Democratic institutions to work in the spirit of democratic values, so the parties assume their role, and civil society will become more active with the media”, Declared the director of the Elie Wiesel Institute, Alexandru Florian.
