Former president Traian Basescu announced on Tuesday evening, on the private TV broadcaster Digi24, that he will no longer run for a new mandate as a member of the European Parliament, adding that "he is at the end of the line".
Asked if he is leaving politics, he said he started a foundation.
"I made a foundation, I have already registered it and I will try (...) for example, I have a lot of invitations from high schools or I took high school students to Brussels as part of that program, I did not bring party people, I took high school classes and took them to Brussels to see the European Parliament. Right now I have 60 children, in the coming weeks, that I am bringing, both from private schools and from state schools," added the former president.