Premier Viorica Dancila said on Tuesday evening that, after seeing the Social Democratic Party's (PSD) poor results in the European Parliament elections, former party leader Liviu Dragnea had asked her not to relinquish rule, because the PSD must carry out its promises to the Romanians.
In her opinion, the party's losing in the elections to the European Parliament, followed shortly by Liviu Dragnea's conviction, were the most difficult moments for the PSD.
"We didn't expect what happened the next day, this is why it wasn't an easy situation for the party. The results in the elections to the European Parliament on Sunday evening, and the arrest of the party's chairman the next day - I think this was a critical moment for the Social Democratic Party. (...) That's why I thought it was important to bring the party together, that it is important that I, in my capacity as Prime Minister and executive chairperson, should gather all the local party organization heads for us to take a decision on what to do in the short term, on how to overcome this moment and on the measures we have to take. We weren't allowed to let the party go drifting, we weren't allowed to hesitate a moment. This was a difficult moment, perhaps the most difficult ever for the Social Democratic Party, but this party has a great quality: it gets united in hard times. When it passes through difficult moments, they all close ranks around the party and this is also what happened now, and I hope that we will have the wisdom and power, that we will have the determination to take major steps and return to the Social Democratic Party's good previous scores," Viorica Dancila said.