MEP Dacian Ciolos, president of REPER, said on Monday, exclusively for ECOPOLITIC, during the conference organized by the Association of History Students „Dacia” of the University of Bucharest, that he does not explain the appointment of Ramona Chiriac at the top of the PSD-PNL list for the Europarliamentary elections, even if she later withdrew, considering that it was a decision „against nature”.
„I didn’t understand what she was actually doing on the list, on the list of two parties that say they are the biggest in Romania and therefore should have reserves of people in the parties, people who represent their ideas and vision. Why did they have to bring in a lady who is a reasonable diplomat? I know her because in 2016, as Prime Minister, I appointed her as Romania’s consul in Germany, in Munich. She is a European official, she represents the European Commission in Romania and she should be impartial and remain at the level of an official. If she wants to be a politician, she can join a party, run as a candidate and leave aside the responsibility of a civil servant. So I don’t know, it seemed unnatural to me. Anyway, I noticed that two big parties that have merged, have merged to help Romania at European level, are not able to find a man or a woman in the party who represents their vision. I still don’t know what the vision of this merged PNL-PSD list actually is. They are parties on two different sides of the political spectrum, they have made joint lists, they show us common names there, but they don’t show us a programme, a project, a vision,” Ciolos said.
He pointed out that „the programme, the project, the vision should have been represented exactly by whoever is put at the top of the list, who would then support these ideas in the campaign”.
„The fact that they brought in someone from the outside means that they have no vision, no common project, no programme, they just want to do anything to attract votes. Here they have not succeeded, and in my view this is not democracy, this is not what it means to make politics assumed”, stressed the REPER leader.
