Former PM Mihai Tudose resigns from PSD, joins Victor Ponta’s party

Former Prime Minister Mihai Tudose, currently deputy of the ruling Social Democrat Party, has announced on Facebook Tuesday that he is resigning from PSD and will join the party set up by another former PM, Victor Ponta. Tudose explained that “the current PSD leadership has replaced the public agenda by personal agendas”, adding that the attempts to dialogue are not taken into account.

He further said that his resignation from PSD comes “as a last move to delimit himself from this way of ruling the party and the country”.

Senator Adrian Țuțuian, who joined Ponta’s party the past days, used to say that more important members of PSD will follow him.

“I strongly believe that the domestic priorities, debates should have focused on hospitals and healthcare, about schools and education, infrastructure and administrative reform, about Romania’s European track, about strategic partnerships, and yes, about justice. But about a fair justice, for people. Not just for <some people>“, said Tudose, hinting to the ruling party’s repeated attempts to amend the judiciary laws to help the party’s top leaders get away with their sentences.

“I have had many meetings in the past months, both with party members, but also with people who are not affiliated to any political party, the conclusion is almost unanimous: there is nothing that can be done! This attitude led me to one of the hardest decisions: the resignation from PSD, as a last move to delimit myself from this way to rule the party and the country. If my action were understood and led to improving things, I would be honestly happy…“, Tudose concludes, while announcing he joins Pro Romania.

After he had been sacked from the PM position early last year, Tudose, also chairman of Braila PSD branch, has repeatedly asked for Liviu Dragnea’s resignation.

On January 15, 2018, the PSD Executive Committee voted to withdraw the political support for the Tudose Government, so Mihai Tudose announced that he would submit his mandate as PM.

Mihai Tudose had the office only six months and a half as prime minister. The Government led by Mihai Tudose received the parliament’s vote of confidence on June 29, 2017, two days after Tudose was nominated by the PSD-ALDE coalition as prime minister.

Mihai Tudose’s predecessor, Sorin Grindeanu, the first prime minister of the PSD-ALDE coalition after the election in 2016, held the position of prime minister less than 6 months.