Romania’s justice minister Raluca Pruna has announced, on Facebook, that she would sue former Prime Minister Victor Ponta for slander after Ponta had repeatedly called her names, also via Facebook.

Former President Traian Basescu and Victor Ponta has also been calling each other names via Facebook posts, continuing the public quarrel they had when Basescu was President and Ponta was Prime Minister.

“A guy named VV Ponta has been calling me a Stalinist. It’s the hundredth time this happens. He also rambles that I am an ISIS member. I have taught political philosophy so I won’t dwell on this: I would have had him repeat the year. For ideological delirium. However, we are in a different game and he is (still) in big politics. I thus announce him publicly, as a lawyer who entered this profession honestly, that for such slender I will invite him from now on to prove such statements in court,” minister Pruna wrote in a Facebook post (3.9K Likes).

She also invited the many Romanians in the country and abroad, who are disgusted with the way they are represented to think if they don’t deserve more than this kind of “intellectual scrap”.

Her reaction comes after Victor Ponta proposed on Thursday that Romania should have a “Memorial for the victims of State Security and Stalinism (plus Basism)” with rooms that have names such as “Monica Macovei”, the name of a former justice minister, and “Raluca Pruna”. “The comrades need not be forgotten so that we don’t repeat their horrors,” Ponta wrote on Facebook (2.8K Likes).

President Traian Basescu took Ponta’s post lighter and taunted his political opponent with an ironic post (5.5K Likes):

“I understand that in his specific innocence, Victor Viorel Ponta proposed a Memorial for the Crimes of Basism. Whatever, everyone is entitled to his proposals. However, Victoras, wouldn’t you like us first to build a Plagiarist’s Memorial? Because you are so many, my dear, and you have managed to spread yout stench, of plagiarist doctors over education, politics, prosecutor offices, police, secret service, etc. What say you, Victoras, would you want a Memorial?”

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