USR (Save Romania Union) MP Cristina Pruna disapproves of the party’s decision not to vote for the motion of censure, stating that „supporting” the Ciolacu government is a „big mistake.”

She said that she will stand by her party colleagues, even when she disagrees with them.

„With or without the USR votes, the Government will not fall anyway. The ‘stability’ that was so often invoked in the last 3 years would not be affected. In its name, monsters have appeared, anyway, that have shaken our democracy to the core. (…) This decision not to vote on the motion is not a good idea. And I believe that supporting the Ciolacu Government is a big mistake. But I will stand by my colleagues, even now when I disagree with them, as I have always done,” Cristina Pruna wrote on Facebook on Friday.

In her opinion, a vote for the USR motion would have been a signal that the current Government „has no legitimacy.” For Romania „it would be a very good thing for the Ciolacu Government to fall,” added Pruna.

„We have a prime minister who lacks credibility. The Nordis scandal has buried him for good, and in any normal country such a prime minister would have resigned long ago. Moreover, in the complicated geopolitical context we find ourselves in, the position of prime minister is a hat that is far too big for him. The Ciolacu Government increased taxes at the beginning of the year, although they said they would not increase them,” said the USR deputy.

According to her, the fall of the Government would not be a „tragedy,” because interim president Ilie Bolojan would consult with political parties and would have „the chance to appoint a reformist prime minister, as he promised” in the electoral campaign.

USR President Elena Lasconi stated on Thursday that USR’s decision not to vote on the motion of censure is not a favour for Marcel Ciolacu.

She mentioned that she does not rule out entering the government alongside PNL (National Liberal Party), PSD (Social Democratic Party) and UDMR (Democratic Union of Hungarians of Romania) after the presidential elections, but not with Marcel Ciolacu as prime minister.

AGERPRES