Thread by @cosminDZS

MEP @CristianTerhes has put out a statement after refusing to attend @JustinTrudeau's EU speech today

In the statement, Terheș blasts Trudeau for having horses trample protestors during the Freedom Convoy crackdown

I've translated it and will tweet relevant parts below

THREAD

"I refused to validate by my presence the facade of the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who gave a speech before the Plenary of the European Parliament on 23.03.2022, it was the reason for which I was not in the room when he spoke."

"You can't come and teach democracy lessons to Putin from the European Parliament when you trample with horse hooves your own citizens who are demanding that their fundamental rights be respected."

"When you, a politician from the "west", implement in your home methods of repression and the trampling of the rights of your own citizens, who demand their rights be respected, as Putin does at home, you are no better than him."

"On the contrary, through the tyranny that you’re implementing you add deceit and hypocrisy, destroying liberty and “western” values."

"These imposter leaders of today’s west have brought the world into the chaos we find ourselves in today, precisely because they have strayed from the values that made the "west" a free and prosperous world."

"The departure of western leaders from these values (individual liberty, respect for rights and freedoms, etc.) not only made them lose their moral ascendancy, but allowed the rise of tyrants like Putin."

"Between the Russian imperialist tyranny, promoted by Putin, and the neo-Marxist tyranny pretending to be progressivism promoted by the likes of Trudeau, in which people are deprived of their rights and freedoms, becoming objects of the state, I do not choose any."

As some of you might recall Terheș was a vocal critic of Trudeau's in Brussels when the Canadian prime minister invoked the Emergencies Act to quash the protests in Ottawa.

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