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PNL National Political Bureau decides to propose Florin Citu for Prime Minister
The chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Ludovic Orban, announced that the Liberals' National Political Bureau decided, with one abstention, that Florin Citu be nominated for the position of Prime Minister.
"With one abstention, the National Political Bureau of the PNL decided that our proposal for the position of Prime Minister should be Florin Citu," Orban said at the PNL headquarters.
Orban revealed that both President Klaus Iohannis and himself wrote down, at the initiative of the head of state, independently, the proposal for the position of prime minister. "We wrote the same name," Orban said.
He stated that Citu's nomination was not accidental."A trying period will follow in which we need good knowledge of the administration, of the public finance situation, we need a prime minister who has credibility in front of the business environment, the international financial institutions, let's not forget that Minister Citu conducted extremely important negotiations with the European partners, he carried out important negotiations with international institutions, he managed together with the others - the National Bank, the Government to maintain the country rating in an extremely difficult situation for Romania. Mr. Minister knows very well the problems we faced while in office and for the most part he has prepared solutions, many of which are still underway," Orban explained.
The PNL leader considers that Florin Citu's proposal for the position of Prime Minister is a very good one.
"In the analysis of the proposal we made, we obviously thought about many aspects related to the actual management capacity of public affairs in the difficult period that will follow, even the possibility of the candidate for Prime Minister to be accepted by our partners. I believe that it is a very good proposal, a proposal that I hope we will succeed in negotiating to form a parliamentary majority [around], to finalize the governing program and the Government form so that, in the shortest possible time, we will succeed in investing the Government". Orban added.
În turn, the chairman of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Marcel Ciolacu, is of the opinion that the decision of the Liberals to propose for the position of Prime Minister Florin Citu represents a "big, big mockery", stating that it's time for Romanians to "revolt against those who want to confiscate their vote."
"The PNL has understood nothing from the Romanians' vote! To propose as Prime Minister Citu - the gravedigger of the Romanian economy is a big, big mockery. These know-nothings are only interested in the spoils, while hundreds of people die daily from the virus. They don't care about the people at all, because otherwise they would have voted for the PSD's proposal - doctor Alexandru Rafila. All they want is to keep stealing and to borrow a few dozen billion euro more for the pockets of the political clientele. Romanians punished them through their vote, all of them, not only Orban. They have no legitimacy left! The PSD can never vote for such a disgrace of a proposal. And if the USR [Save Romania Union] and the UDMR [Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania] will do so, then they will be part to this national catastrophe. I believe it's the moment for Romanians to revolt against those who want to confiscate their vote," wrote, on Wednesday, on Facebook, Marcel Ciolacu.