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Cristian Diaconescu, former minister of foreign affairs: PSD seems incapable to manage in the country as well as to lead the country
The Social Democratic Party (PSD) ‘ seems incapable to manage its interests in the party and at the same time to lead the country’ the same situation having results on ‘ the capacity to manage the interests of Romania’ said on Friday for Mediafax Live, the former minister of foreign affairs Cristian Diaconescu.
‘Those who generated the crisis are more interested with the developments in the country than the consequences abroad (…_) The governing party in Romania indeed seems incapable to manage their own interests in the party and at the same time to lead the country. So, from the same perspective the situation is complicated enough, as this succession of crises within the party which is governing, in a way or another, clearly influences the capacity to manage the interests of Romania. So, the crises within the party, from the coalition in a way as complicated as possible reflected in the delay, in the issues, in the failures the citizens accuse them of, not only those who, as some leaders of PSD want to harm them, a fixation as they consider it’ said the former head of the Romanian diplomacy, who was also PSD vice-chairman.
Diaconescu said that the present crisis in PSD is ‘ a complicated issue’, at national level and leads to the waste of ‘some opportunities which pass by’.
‘It is a complicated matter. As the opportunities go by, as at the moment, besides the managing of the interests of Romania of everyday life, there are projects underway, there are developments, strategies at European levels and not only, there are risks and threats which we have to be careful of, and we need a national position, as well as within the partnership community we belong to. As the party is blocked at the highest level, in domestic crisis, which anyway are small by comparison to the assets which this party might face in the governing act, surely we are having a national issue’ the former minister of foreign affairs said.
Asked if this unrest in the domestic policy can put us in the position of problem child of Europe, the former minister of foreign affairs said;” If we look at the experience of Poland or Hungary, from this perspective, with all the assets these countries have in the European dialogue – if we speak about Poland-the answer is ‘yes’. Besides the strategic position, the importance of the central-eastern flank of the NATO, Poland is at the limit of being applied ‘ the nuclear weapon’ from the constitutive treaties of the EU article 7, namely the suspension of the right of vote, due to issues connected to domestic legiferation regarding the rule of law, corruption, justice, the functioning of the judicial system. So, there is a precedent from which wise politicians should learn.’
Cristian Diaconescu, former minister of foreign affairs was present on Friday in the Mediafax Live studio for a discussion about Romania against the worries of Europe and the world, together with the head editor of Mediafax Indira Crasnea