Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis declared on Wednesday, in New York, about the amendment of the draft law that would have allowed him to run for the Romanian Senate, that he did not want a law for himself and that he would make sure that this law does not exist.
Asked if he intends to run in the parliamentary elections and if he held discussions in this regard with the leaders of the coalition, social-democrat Marcel Ciolacu and liberal Nicolae Ciuca, Klaus Iohannis said that he was considering the issue of a possible candidacy in the next period, in a discussion that will take place in Romania.
„But I can tell you about this law even now, because for me it is very clear. I did not want a law for myself, I do not want a law for myself and I can tell you with certainty that I will make sure that this law does not exist. It is not possible to make a law for a person and then I think I have expressed myself very clearly. In a nutshell, this law will not exist and I do not want it to exist,” the president told journalists on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Asked how he thinks the governing will go on until the elections and if it is possible to resume the PNL-PSD coalition after the elections, the president said that it is premature to give an answer, but he specified that the parties must not give up their political approaches in campaign.
„Normally, after the elections, the votes in the Parliament are counted and from there certain coalitions are formed or not to give the government. It is a bit early to talk about what will happen after the elections. If the current coalition will manage to govern until the elections or not, we’ll see after we return home. I’ll probably have some discussions on this topic, that in the end we need a government, but that doesn’t mean that the parties have to give up their political approaches in the campaign and I don’t think it is expected that in this period the leading candidates will give up political approaches. It is a situation that will obviously be quite complex,” Klaus Iohannis concluded.
AGERPRES
