• “Two things need to be said about this morning’s cheap theatre surrounding the summoning of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan as a witness to the Iași office of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA).

I cannot help noticing the wave of hypocrisy within PSD Iași (which has lost a county councillor – the branch’s vice-president – and a mayor because of its own incompetence and lack of conviction when dealing with the central leadership over the Fritz amendment). I am still waiting for Sorin Grindeanu to be summoned before DNA over the Nordis scams, the shoeboxes filled with hundreds of thousands of euros, but above all over the likely act of treason concerning foreign interference in bringing down the Bolojan government.

There is a sequence of events in this case that raises questions and must be clarified publicly. The presence of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan as a 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒 at the Iași DNA office comes after weeks in which certain television channels repeatedly announced it and after information attributed to the Bogos case appeared in the press. The timing cannot be ignored. The PNL leader’s hearing is taking place precisely as Romania is in the midst of a process to find a new governing formula.

Therefore, the following questions arise. Why did a hearing of this kind have to take place precisely now, and was there a procedural urgency that made it impossible to schedule it for a time when it would not fuel political speculation? Why was the prime minister’s physical presence in Iași indispensable, and why could the hearing not take place in Bucharest?

Without clear answers, all these things contribute to the erosion of public confidence in the justice system and to the creation of a negative image of the justice system. Coincidences, ambiguities, leaks from case files and media propaganda fuel suspicions and undermine the credibility of the administration of justice,” Muraru says.