Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, also PSD chairman, said on Tuesday, after the work visit to Lot 3 – part of the Focşani – Bacău Highway (A7), when asked if there are discussions with the PNL regarding the candidacy on joint lists for the local or parliamentary elections, that “normally there are discussions”. “We do politics. I believe that PSD and PNL have brought stability to Romania“, the prime minister said.
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu was asked if there are discussions with the PNL regarding the candidacy on common lists in the local or parliamentary elections. “It’s normal that there are discussions, we’re doing politics,” said Ciolacu, as quoted by Digi24.
“I believe that PSD and PNL have brought stability to Romania. I would not like to remind you of the context when PSD entered the government, we were in the midst of a social crisis and there was acute governmental incoherence. This is the truth and I would not want to disturb or upset my colleagues. I work with the excellent Minister Fechet, all the builders and CNAIR and all the ministries praise him for how involved he is in solving problems. They also get involved locally. Things are working”, said Marcel Ciolacu.
Asked if there is also the issue of supporting a common candidate in the presidential elections, Ciolacu said: “I would also go to the European Commission to have a common candidate.”
Mass media in Romania reported today that PNL and PSD leaders are secretly negotiating the establishment of a new alliance, baptized the “Democratic Block” and that President Klaus Iohannis would have given his OK for that.
According to Libertatea daily, a small circle at the top of PSD and PNL is intensively negotiating to set up a “democratic block” as an alternative to the rise of AUR.
With the new alliance, the two parties aim to win all the elections in 2024 – European, local, parliamentary and presidential. “The strategy will be to block nationalist and extremist movements”, sources participating in the negotiations between PSD and PNL told media.
The negotiations are reportedly held in a restricted format, and they are conducted from the PNL side only by Nicolae Ciucă and Lucian Bode, the general secretary of the party, while from the PSD, the negotiators are the president Marcel Ciolacu, the general secretary Paul Stănescu and the first vice-president Sorin Grindeanu.
According to recent opinion polls, PSD ranks first in Romanians’ preferences, followed by AUR and PNL. According to the polls, Diana Șoșoacă’s party reached four percent, being very close to reaching the electoral threshold.