Former PSD leader Liviu Dragnea, currently imprisoned for corruption, is insisting from jail that PSD is dissolved, using as an argument precisely the sentence he received in the Teleorman fictitious hiring. Dragnea has first filed a complaint at the Bucharest Tribunal in August, trough his lawyer, challenging the decisions at the PSD Congress regarding the changing statute and electing the new leadership of the party. However, Bucharest Tribunal overruled his appeal, but now the former SocDem chairman has referred the Court of Appeal again on the same issue, asking judges to cancel the election of Viorica Dancila as PSD chairwoman.
More precisely, Liviu Dragnea is using his conviction in the fictitious hiring file, arguing that if PSD Teleorman maintained the two women employed at the Teleorman Directorate for Child Protection, which brought him the prison sentence, that means that PSD Teleorman was also involved in the crime for which he is serving prison time now. Moreover, he added that if PSD Teleorman made a mistake, it means that the entire party was wrong.
Dragnea claims that it is PSD Teleorman that caused the prejudice to the Directorate for Child Protection by hiring the two SocDem members and so, it is PSD Teleorman organisation that should be dissolved.
By extension, Dragnea argues that PSD members from Teleorman had also attended and voted at the party Congress in June that elected Viorca Dancila as chairwoman, and that would mean that vote was invalid.
Commenting Dragnea’s appeal, Viorica Dancila used to say at the end of August that “all men in Romania have found their perfect target” in her.