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The general conclusion of the PSD's National Executive Committee, which voted late on Monday to withdraw political support for Prime Minister Mihai Tudose, was that "it can no longer continue like that," said the party's leader Liviu Dragnea.
"There were more reproaches, I cannot reproduce all of them here, it would mean we will stay for five hours. The general conclusion was that it cannot be continued like this because there is a conflict between the party and the Government, as well as within the Government. The colleagues referred to his latest TV appearances, there was dissatisfaction among party members since they all expected the new year to begin with some presentations of a 2017 governance report and a presentation of the measures that should be taken in 2018 for Romanians, measures in the governing programme. Instead, they saw some television appearances that should not have been, in the sense that this kind of public statements must be made in the National Executive Committee, namely issues related to the relationship with ministers or other relationships or other issues that should be discussed within the party and, once the decisions are taken, they are communicated," said the PSD leader.
He argued that "a state of tension has been created, which has increased in the last period."
"I also think that some of my colleagues, whom I have left in the last week to produce letters, produce posts to say their point of view, have also contributed. There was an avalanche of more or less elaborated points of view, issues that should have been discussed in the party, and all these things have escalated and it has come to the situation where 60 colleagues have said that, in realistic terms, we can no longer have the guarantee that over a month or more than three weeks or more than two months, we will not end up in the same situation because we went through the same situation in October [2017], also following a television show that referred to two colleagues. And there were many more things said, but, I repeat, not necessarily on a collegial tone," mentioned the PSD president.
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