(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Opposition senator Dan Sova was discharged as the Social Democrat Party (PSD) spokesman on Wednesday after he said on television that "no Jew suffered on Romanian territory, thanks to marshal Antonescu".
Sova also claimed that "historical data show that a total of 24 Jews were killed during the Iasi pogrom by the German army."
"Mr Sova made a tremendous blunder. From now on he is no longer the PSD spokesman," the Social Democrats' leader Victor Ponta said in a press conference.
Ponta also said that Sova will be sent to Washington DC in United States to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Two Romanian NGOs, Romani CRISS and MCA Romania have filed a criminal complaint against Sova, saying "the senator's denial statements have been explicit and his apology must reflect that he regrets and assumes his error and not what might have been misunderstood or misinterpreted".
Holocaust denial is considered a crime in Romania.
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