Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said Romania needs a president who already has a parliamentary majority, adding that the country cannot afford a political crisis at this moment, as it would „lead to chaos, to payment default.”

„Together with our partners from the European Union and NATO, I chose today order and not chaos, and I believe Romania needs a president who already has a parliamentary majority, so that they can implement the reforms and carry out the national programme with which they ran. As far as I know, only one candidate had such a national programme, and I voted wholeheartedly for Romania to move forward from this moment,” Ciolacu said Sunday, after casting his ballot at a polling station in Bucharest.

When asked by journalists whether Romanians will vote to punish or to build, the prime minister replied that he doesn’t believe the country can afford a crisis at the present moment.

„Romanians will vote as they know best, and I am glad to see so many Romanians voting, especially from the diaspora, and I am convinced the turnout in Romania will be even higher. This is truly a moment of choice between order and disorder, and I think we all expect stability. I don’t think we can afford a political crisis now, it would lead to chaos, to payment default, and I don’t believe any of us want that,” stressed Ciolacu.

Regarding his meeting with James E. Trainor, Vice Chair of the U.S. Federal Election Commission, who is in Romania to observe the presidential election, Ciolacu said he assured him that the elections in Romania will be fair, just as all elections have been organised correctly for the past 35 years.

„There were no major problems during the last elections, and there won’t be now. The Romanian Government is responsible for the administrative organisation of the elections. It does not validate or annul elections,” he stressed.

AGERPRES