Laura Codruta Kovesi convinced through 'proven integrity and competence' in leading the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and the Public Ministry, said on Thursday Dacian Ciolos, leader of the Renew Group in the European Parliament, after the former head of the DNA was given a positive notice in the Council from the ambassadors of the EU member states for the position of European head prosecutor.
The USR PLUS Alliance in the European Parliament, too, announced in a release that Laura Codruta Kovesi, Romania's candidate, has a clear path to occupy one of the most important positions in the European Union, that of head prosecutor of the European Prosecutor's Office.
The National Liberal Party (PNL) chairman, Ludovic Orban, stated that the designation of Laura Codruta Kovesi as European head prosecutor following the vote in COREPER is a victory to which President Klaus Iohannis and the liberals contributed and a slap given to the Dancila Government by the other European states. He mentions that PNL, as a member of the EPP, used all its leverage to obtain this result, managing to determine changes in position from the countries that initially did not vote in favor of Laura Codruta Kovesi.
The chairman of the Save Romania Union (USR), Dan Barna, sends his congratulations to Laura Codruta Kovesi for the vote obtained during the COREPER meeting, mentioning that only PM Viorica Dancila insists on stopping her appointment as European head prosecutor, but that the PM's opposition "did not matter". He claims that if she had acted "decently" in the past and had let Laura Codruta Kovesi continue her career, Viorica Dancila would not be today in the position "of acting against the interests of her own country."