Co-chair of the National Liberal Party (PNL) Alina Gorghiu said Monday that the news of the resignation from office of the head of Romania's Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu had taken her by surprise, adding that she did not know the reasons. "I do not know the reasons behind the resignation. The news has taken me by surprise," Gorghiu said at the end of a meeting of the PNL National Political Bureau on Monday.
To the journalists' remarks that there were some reports about Ungureanu not being on good terms with President Iohannis and the President repeatedly asking Ungureanu to step down, Gorghiu said "everybody puts smooth institutional functioning above personal interests ". "If his resignation solves some functioning problems, hats off to him!" Gorghiu added. President Klaus Iohannis on Monday accepted the resignation of Ungureanu as director of Romania's Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) and the appointment of Silviu Predoiu as acting director.
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