Chairman of the People's Movement Party (PMP) Traian Basescu announced on Thursday that at the consultations with President Klaus Iohannis he proposed Eugen Tomac for the Prime Minister office.
"Because we are the Opposition, we have also made a proposal for the Prime Minister office. The person proposed by us is Eugen Tomac. This is why we are the Opposition, to create competition," Basescu stated.
He claimed that Eugen Tomac is "an experienced politician, an unionist, a man who knows very well the country, a man with a good image in Brussels."
"I am the best, but not young enough (for the Prime Minister office - e.n.). We come with new people in politics," Basescu pointed out.
When asked if Tomac has chances to become Prime Minister, the PMP leader responded that it "depends on the designation."
"President Iohannis isn't in the happiest situation in which a head of state can be, from the options' point of view, I must admit it, but we made our duty as an Opposition party. I find it unacceptable for the Opposition to say we don't have proposals," Basescu motivated.
He mentioned that the consultation with President Iohannis must be carried out, because the consultation is included in the constitutional system.
"It couldn't be let go, even if the proposal which was made yesterday by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) and the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania (UDMR) seemed to make the consultations of today useless," Basescu revealed.
Eugen Tomac stated he is honored by the proposal of being Prime Minister.
"If I were to be designated, we will try to establish a dialogue with the other parliamentary parties," Tomac stated.
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