National Liberal Party (PNL) spokesman Ionut Stroe on Monday criticised the Social Democratic Party (PSD) saying that „aggressiveness and arrogance seem to be part of the DNA” of this party every time the Social Democrats feel strong. In reply, PSD spokesman Lucian Romascanu said that the Social Democrats were „not at the origin of any conflict,” just reacting.

„We have to meet an obligation, an obligation that we do not owe PSD, but the Romanians. (…) Now, indeed, there is a political price that we pay. Lately, and especially when they release their electoral offers, there is a kind of arrogance and aggressiveness on the part of PSD, and I honestly do not understand what these challenges against PNL are for, these attacks that, rather, replace a manifesto or a concrete political offer,” Stroe told B1 TV private broadcaster.

He added that PNL will respond „directly proportional to any PSD’s attack and provocations.”

PSD spokesman Romascanu told B1 TV, that Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, PSD’s national leader, is attacked by PNL, which did not happen to Nicolae Ciuca while in office on behalf of the Social Democrats, who are now coming out „to react.”

„Of course, we are close to electioneering, and things certainly take on the necessary nuance of communication with their own electorate, with the undecided, but it would be a shame to burn their bridges because you never say never. We will see what Romanians decide in December regarding the majority in Parliament, but we will still have to be able to sit down at the table. If we hit like that, we may not want to talk anymore and that would be a bad thing for Romania, first of all,” Romascanu said.

AGERPRES