Leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) Marcel Ciolacu said on Wednesday that President Klaus Iohannis has come to "pledge his personal credibility" in order to save a "corrupt", "out of grip" government, instead of doing so for Romania as an entirety, according to AGERPRES.
"We, the PSD, don't even run opinion polls anymore, it's enough to look at the President's agenda to figure out how the National Liberal Party (PNL) fares among the voters. If the President has more often public appearances, this means that the PNL sits poorly in the polls. The President of Romania has come to pledge his personal credibility in order to bail out a corrupt and out of grip government, instead of pledging his credibility and position for Romania as a whole, not for one political party, of becoming PNL's political commissar. Have you heard of anything like this before? Have you heard from Donald Trump sticking to partisanship when he campaigns for President? Not even Traian Basescu has gone that far. (...) The President has no right and it is not democratic for him to pledge his credibility for a particular political party, particularly for a government incapable to cope with the major challenges Romania is currently going through," Ciolacu told broadcaster DC News.
He argued that at this moment there are just "feeble traces of democracy" in Romania. "We are starting to move towards a path at least myself, but you too have experienced previously, before 1989, by the principle 'who is with us - good, who is not with us must pay', and the message is clear, it's conveyed each and every day. (...) The President's engagement into saving this government is a pre-1989 practice, before 1989 we were told that everything is OK, that we are all supplied with meat, that there's plentiful food and drink, but the reality is completely different," Ciolacu added.
The PSD leader criticizes the President and the government for "inventing hot water every day" instead of initiating a discussion with all the political forces in order to bring the health crisis to an end and instead of looking at what is happening in Europe.
"What vaccine are we talking about? Has anyone announced that this vaccine exists? (...) What vaccine did the President of Romania tell us yesterday will be deployed to Romania for distribution? (...) Is there a vaccine announced? Is there a vaccine discovered? Is there a vaccine put into production yet? I admit that the President has more intel than I do, this is how it should be, but if we know that a vaccine is about to appear, why don't we push the general election back by three months, vaccinate everyone and hold the ballot after that?," Ciolacu inquires.
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