PSD President, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, said on Monday that he did not come to Iasi, to the pilgrimage organized by the Metropolitan Church of Moldova and Bucovina to celebrate the patron saint of Saint Paraskeva, during the election campaign, but „simply” felt the „need, as a Christian” to participate in such an event.

„I went to the celebration, like any Romanian. (…) I didn’t necessarily come during the election campaign. I usually feel the need, I still go on Sundays… Everything we do must not be covered by media all the time”, said Marcel Ciolacu, when asked about his presence, on Monday morning, among the pilgrims who came to worship the relics of Saint Paraskeva, at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iasi.

He rejected the idea that attendance at such a pilgrimage enhances the outcome of the elections.

„No, not at all, it was for my soul, like a Christian”, claimed Ciolacu.

More than 45,000 believers from the country and abroad waited, on Monday, to pray in the canopy of the Metropolitan Court where the reliquary with the relics of Saint Pious Paraskeva and the reliquary with the relics of the Holy Great Martyr Pantelimon are located.

According to the organizers, since October 8, since the start of the pilgrimage organized by the Metropolitan Church of Moldova and Bucovina for the celebration of Saint Paraskeva, which is on October 14, 195,000 people have passed through the canopy of the Metropolitan Court.

AGERPRES