Former PM Sorin Grindeanu said he had sent the Social Democrat Party the appeal against the party’s decision to oust him. “The motivation of the appeal is within the law and I expect it will be solved in this respect,” Grindeanu stated.
“I cannot betray the trust of the people in Timis who voted me and endorsed me as party organization leader. I resorted to the appeal following their signals and after meetings I had this week. I hope the Bucharest representatives have understood the wish of the PSD Timis branch, which has unanimously decided to support me in this action,” the former premier added.
The Social Democrat Party decided last week that the the PSD Timis leadership should be taken over by Petru Andea and Dorel Caprar, currently PSD Arad chairman. As a retort, no less than 53 mayors in Timis County threatened to leave the party if Sorin Grindeanu is expelled from the party.
The social-democrats’ Standing Bureau sitting on Monday, carried out in the absence of chairman Liviu Dragnea (on holiday) has postponed making a decision on the Timis County party branch.
PSD Secretary General Marian Neacsu has announced at the end of the sitting that no decision was made, and that he would travel to Timisoara in order to find out the way to appoint an interim county chairman to replace the ousted former leader Sorin Grindeanu.
Neacsu said that Sorin Grindeanu has been excluded from the PSD Executive Committee, but he is still included in the county data base. He added that the county branch is the one which deletes from the data base the expelled members.