24 hours after the announcement of the death of the philosopher Mihail Șora, Kelemen Hunor, the president of UDMR, is the only party leader in the governing coalition who sent a public message.
Şora has actively participated in recent years in anti-PSD and pro-justice civic protests, taking to the streets despite her advanced age. He took civic positions throughout his life, including in 1990 when he resigned as Minister of Education over the 1990 mining that killed and injured hundreds of freedom protesters.
“Mihai Şora represented the European spirit of tolerance and humanism when one of his professors at the University turned to fascism, but also when his bosses promoted extremist Stalinism in Romania. After the fall of the communist regime, he was even a minister, but only until, following the Mineriada, he was convinced that not only the former cadres survived, but also the reflexes of the former regime. Then he lived and created for more than three decades, proclaiming, with wisdom and serenity, that this country can become better than it is,” wrote Kelemen Hunor on Facebook on Sunday.
Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă, the president of the PNL, did not post any message after the death of Mihai Șora, publicly announced on Saturday evening by his wife. Instead, the reserve general posted a message on the death of Victor Babiuc, former Minister of Defense.
Neither President Klaus Iohannis nor the head of PSD, Marcel Ciolacu, posted messages related to Mihai Șora. President Iohannis decorated Șora with the National Order “Star of Romania” in 2016.
Among those who posted messages related to Mihai Șora are opposition leaders, several liberal politicians, the president of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, and a number of intellectuals and artists.
