Presidential candidate Elena Lasconi declared on Monday that Marcel Ciolacu would no longer be prime minister if she is elected president, adding that he „brought the country into a tailspin”.

„Of course Marcel Ciolacu will no longer be the prime minister of Romania with me as president. He will definitely not be prime minister with me as president. He brought this country into a tailspin. We are talking on television.(…) It is an electoral soap opera in which it seems that we are running for another country, perhaps for Venezuela, when our problems are extremely big with a very large deficit, there are many difficult things at the moment in Romania and no one is talking about them. Ciolacu will no longer be prime minister with me as president”, Lasconi told the electoral debate at Cotroceni Palace.

She was asked what team she would work with on the external front if she became president, especially since „the party abandoned her”.

„The party did not abandon me, because the party is not the 16 coup plotters. The party is made up of 20,000 people and it is an insult to them. When I become president of Romania, I want a reform of diplomacy. I would like us to recruit valuable diplomats to embassies and consulates all over the world”, said Lasconi, noting that she has the capacity to negotiate and that she wants people without party affiliation.

AGERPRES