President Nicușor Dan announces that he is ready to appoint PSD leader Sorin Grindeanu as prime minister in the government reshuffle in the spring of 2027.
„If PSD decides in 2027 that Sorin Grindeanu is the proposed prime minister, I don’t see why I wouldn’t make this nomination. But until 2027, there is still a year and a half,” said Nicușor Dan in an interview with the Cotidianul newspaper, when asked if he would appoint Sorin Grindeanu as prime minister in the government reshuffle, given that he will be elected president of the PSD at the PSD Congress on November 7.
When reminded that he was one of the Romanians who protested in Victory Square against the then prime minister, Sorin Grindeanu, after the adoption of Ordinance 13, the president replied:
"I remember very well, but at the same time, I also remember the parliamentary configuration from 2016-2020. I was a newly elected USR deputy. We are in a different political situation, where stability in Romania means, even though many of my voters have remained in this logic of contesting the PSD, we are in a political configuration where stability is important and this stability cannot be achieved without the PSD. That's the truth."
The president specified that he wants the current government to last until the reshuffle in the spring of 2027.
He admitted that there will be evaluations of ministers, within the parties, within the coalition.
"Unfortunately, it is inevitable for people to think differently and not refrain from publicly attacking each other. All in all, for now, on important votes, the coalition has worked," concluded the president.
The president stated that in the event of a second term at Cotroceni, he does not rule out the possibility of nominating Ilie Bolojan as prime minister again.
"Ilie Bolojan leads the PNL and in the event that, in future elections, we find ourselves in that situation, of course," explained the president.
Nicușor Dan does not consider it likely for AUR to exceed 50% in the next elections, and when asked if, in such a scenario, he would appoint a prime minister from AUR, he replied: "I don't want us to judge in this type of scenarios. I mean, there is no European country where we have a party openly pro-Russian that has a majority."