Renewing Romania’s European Project (REPER) party harshly criticized prime minister Marcel Ciolacu on Thursday, maintaining that he has an „irresponsible” attitude, because in „critical” moments for Romania, he „shows political cowardice” and „leaves the country in an unprecedented administrative and financial chaos”.
„Mr. Ciolacu is showing today that the people who voted for him and PSD [the Social Democratic Party] in the parliamentary elections are just numbers for petty political calculations, not people who deserve to live decently in a safe country,” REPER representatives said.
REPER co-chair Ramona Strugariu said that, „after the crass irresponsibility of completely ignoring European money, of bringing the country into a budget deficit of almost 9%, of overinflating salaries and pensions, knowing full well that there is no way to pay them, making plenty of room for anti-system voting, extremism and hatred of failed parties and governments”, Ciolacu „runs away, with an incredible cowardice, from the same petty political calculations, and leaves the country in chaos”.
„No one has the right, legitimized in these elections by the vote, to mock 18 million people. I know what Mr. Ciolacu found displeasing, probably the fact that there were proposals for ministerial portfolios from outside the parties, competent people who could contribute to the government. If you had them in the party, Mr. Ciolacu, and put them to work, we wouldn’t have ended up here. But, beyond that, I am convinced that in PSD, in the other parliamentary parties, in the extra-parliamentary parties or in the business environment and civil society there are competent people ready to contribute to government. Take it upon yourselves to make the best governmental team for a Romania that is going through its hardest moment so far,” Strugariu added, according to a press release.
According to the cited source, REPER party is „ready to contribute”, if needed. „You have a major credibility problem, both in the eyes of Romanians and in the eyes of Europe, which does not come out of nowhere. Years and years in a row have led to this. There is a time for reckoning and taking responsibility for major failures, do this transparently and let’s move on, because you all wanted to govern. Rule. Without vanity and childishness, with clearly assumed reforms and the figures on the table, so that we all know exactly where we have ended up (why, we already know) and we can move quickly and lucidly towards the government program and solutions,” said Ramona Strugariu.
REPER co-chair Dragos Pislaru also accused PSD of „running away from responsibility”. „After almost bankrupting the country through populism and incompetence, PSD is now running away from responsibility, demonstrating a monumental cowardice. (…) Now more than ever it is necessary to assume the difficult situation and to repair what has been ruined by PSD, which has squandered the Romanians’ money and now does not want to foot the bill,” the REPER leader said.
AGERPRES
