Former Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos believes that in the future, Romania will not need father figures or Messianic leaders to lead it, but teams with concrete projects and cohesion. On Monday, he was presented the Group for Social Dialogue (GDS) Prize 2016 at the GDS headquarters.
"First of all, this prize is for the team, and, secondly I believe that for the period ahead Romania needs teams working in the community interest; I believe an effort is needed when trying to get mentalities to evolve, an effort for us to convince more Romanians that future Romania will not need father figures or Messianic leaders to lead the county, and that first of all it needs cohesion, starting from everybody's belief that individually they can shoulder responsibility for a collective destiny," said Ciolos.
He went on to say he is honoured by the prize, adding that the most important achievement of his Cabinet was the advancement of values.
"I am also honoured because, as you were saying, we are sharing many of the values we tried to advance while in office; I believe that beyond any reform measures that were made or could have been made, the most important thing about the government I headed was the advancement of values, the advancement of a modus vivendi and modus operandi. I want to thank my team, which deserves more than anything else, more than any prize, more than any thought about the actions we did last year," said Ciolos.
He also discussed the future plans of a platform started by him.
What are we doing now? We have built that association - Platform Romania 100 - and we have been looking, together with our team, for the best way in which the activity of the association may lend support to projects in 2019-2020. We will work on projects that will provide substance for a programme. (...) It is not my intention to set up a party, if that was the question. (...) I guess engagement now with a political party will only disunite, further fracture the forces that are trying to find themselves and redefine themselves, and I believe it is important for them to take their time to do that. I do not want to gear the political fight and battle toward disunity and provocation just for the sake of holding power," said Ciolos.
He admitted that power should be gained, but it should be gained because of projects, not through underground battles.
He added that he and his team have lately been seeking for ways to mobilise the energies of those wanting to get involved in a different way of doing politics.
"I believe there are many people ready to devote time and energy for public action, for collective action but they cannot find themselves in the current way of doing politics, in the current way of promoting projects at a public level. I believe it is important for us to create these alternatives and try to come up with new ways to mobilise these energies. This is what we have been looking for for months: ideas and ways so that the people ready to get involved may get involved," said Ciolos.
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