PM Dacian Ciolos has confirmed on Friday he has talks with several ministers who voiced intention to run in elections and said they would resign. “In the following period they will announce the decisions made. Certainly, they will resign,” Ciolos said.
On Thursday evening he reiterated the fact that he will not run in elections and will conclude his term as prime-minster.
Dacian Ciolos announced on Thursday that in the coming period he will publicly present a platform of principles, values and projects that will reflect the experience of the months of governance.
In an interview for Digi24 TV the Premier said it is important to discuss these issues.
“It is important that we have a discussion on some principles, on some values, on some wide topics which I also believe we must work on in the coming period and then the citizens must be left to decide if these principles, themes can make the object of a governance programme. (…) I plan to come up in the coming period with these principles, with these values, with the projects we initiated and which, in my point of view, could be continued if there is a support for these projects… Not a governance programme, the governance programme is the domain of the parties participating in the elections, but a platform, a project reflecting somehow the experience I gathered these years and, so to speak, the legacy I would leave for the next period, this is what I can contribute with to the debate that will take place in the coming period,” Ciolos told Digi 24 private television broadcaster.
Asked if he has already met with the PNL and the USR to discuss about the announced project, Ciolos said that he could have talks with these parties only after he publicly presents the project.
“It is a synthesis and a reflection on what we have worked on so far, the governance manner which we tried to put into practice, based on honesty, based on integrity, based on principles of transparency, professionalism, reforms that we have initiated, many of them because we were forced by realities, by context to begin, even if they have to be thought in a longer than one year perspective. Exactly because we have started things that we probably didn’t expect or that we didn’t think in the beginning that we had to work on, and because we realize that in education, health, infrastructure in cutting down the red tape and to increase the public administration performance, social policy versus job creation, in all of these areas there are things that we were somehow compelled to begin and which should be continued, I will write them down together with my collaborators and we will present them to the public,” the PM pointed out.
At the same time, Ciolos added that he hasn’t talked with the PNL and the USR about the possibility of these parties supporting him for the prime minister office after the parliamentary elections.