First Vice President of the PNL, Ciprian Ciucu, describes as „offensive” the call made by the Social Democratic Party to liberals to withdraw support for Ilie Bolojan. The liberal leader says that the current political crisis was „provoked” by the PSD and rules out resuming dialogue with the social democrats, regardless of parliamentary developments.
„How can PSD believe that we betray our leader?”
Asked on Digi24 about his view on the PSD’s request, Ciucu responded firmly that it is „offensive from several points of view” and accused the rival party of triggering the political crisis.
"How can PSD assume that the party will betray its own elected president? They started this crisis, they took ownership of it, after we stated twice in the National Political Bureau that we will not form any alliance with the PSD if they bring down the government," Ciucu stated.
He argues that the PSD's stake would be the weakening of the PNL and the compromise of the liberals: "They want a PNL without dignity, a PNL subservient to the PSD, a PNL keychain."
"Artificial crisis, for money and power"
The liberal leader states that the PNL has honored its commitments within the coalition, and the responsibility for the current situation lies solely with the PSD.
"We have not erred against the PSD, we have respected the coalition protocol, and this entire artificial crisis is entirely due to them. And it's about money, power, and more political influence of this extremely corrupt party," Ciucu said.
PNL does not abandon its leader
Asked about potential "deserters" from the party, Ciucu admitted that he "cannot be sure of anything" in the current political context, but emphasized that he does not believe that the PNL will betray its leader.
"Can you imagine how ridiculous we would be if after two clear decisions [...] now we were to turn back?" he pointed out, also comparing the level of trust among leaders of the PNL and PSD.
Only two options: minority government or opposition
In Ciucu's opinion, the liberals currently have only two clear political options after the motion:
"The PNL has only two options: a minority government or opposition. There is no other option at this moment."
He added that a possible move to the opposition could be useful for the reform of the party.
"No further discussions with PSD"
The First Vice President of the PNL firmly closed the door to any new collaboration with the PSD, even in the hypothesis that the motion would not pass.
"No further discussions with PSD. They have already initiated the motion, they have already gone too far, they have already offended every member of our party through their behavior," Ciprian Ciucu concluded.