Prime Minister Pavel Filip asked the competent bodies to provide information about the ban on entering Moldova imposed on the Romanian citizen George Simion. The leader of the Unionist Platform “Actiunea 2012” was prevented from entering Moldova on February 5. He spent the night of February 6 in the customs post and went on hunger strike, IPN reports.
Update. Meanwhile, George Simion on a social networking site announced that he gave up the hunger strike. “I gave up the hunger strike because they changed their mind: now I’m not a people’s enemy already and can cross the unjust border on the Prut,” he wrote.
According to the Government’s press service, the Premier also asked analyzing the possibility of allowing George Simion to enter Moldova until the court passes judgment in his case and announced that he will monitor the given case.
In a press release to Agerpres on February 5, the Unionist Platform “Actiunea 2012”, which is led by George Simion, says that George Simion was again banned from entering Moldova and he found out about this in the customs post only.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania also devoted attention to this case. “In accordance with the diplomatic procedures, the Embassy of Romania asked for clarification over this situation from the Moldovan authorities. As a result of the made approaches, the administration of the Bureau for Migration and Asylum of the Republic of Moldova specified that it challenged the September 18, 2015 decision by which the Chisinau Appeals Court lifted the previous ban on entrance to Moldova. Afterward, the Appeals Court of the Republic of Moldova decided in favor of the Bureau for Migration and Asylum,” the Ministry says in its answer to a request by Agerpres.
According to the quoted source, the Bureau’s administration also said that the legal representative of George Simion in Moldova was informed about these aspects. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Embassy of Romania in the Republic of Moldova, requested the competent institutions of the Republic of Moldova to specify the legal procedures through which the Romanian citizen must go in accordance with the relevant legislation,” said the Ministry.
On May 13, 2015, George Simion was declared undesirable on Moldova’s territory and was banned from entering Moldova for a period of five years. The ban was lifted on September 18, 2015 by a decision by the Chisinau Appeals Court, which ruled that there were no reasons for declaring George Simion a persona non-grata.
At 3pm on February 6, the Civic Movement “Moldova’s Youth” will mount a protest in front of the Bureau for Migration and Asylum of Moldova. In a press release, the Movement says they will protest against the Moldovan authorities’ abusive decision by which Romanian and European citizen George Simion was banned from entering Moldova. The Movement also says that George Simion wasn’t informed about the new ban.
