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Outgoing Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said on Thursday evening that she will not step down as Chair of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) because she cannot leave her team during hard times.
She announced that she will tour all the local organizations and request the vote of the National Executive Committee to have the "traitors" expelled from the party.
"When I took over the PSD chairmanship I said 'I am not afraid of the opposition, I am afraid of the insiders' and now I was proven right. (...) I hereby channel many of my colleagues who phoned me today to say let all those who want to leave go join Ponta's party, the party of traitors. We will carry on because we have a presidential election to win, to strengthen the party and check the lists for the parliamentary and local elections," Dancila said.
She added that the event for the formal launch of her presidential campaign will take place on Saturday, as announced, and that she will not withdraw from the presidential race as this is the only chance for the party to regroup, grow and win the local and parliamentary elections.
