PM Ciolos: I won’t run in the elections, but I encourage the ministers to do so

PM Dacian Ciolos said, during an interview to the public television, that he maintains his decision not to join any political party and not to run in the parliamentary elections, adding that he is encouraging the ministers of his Cabinet to do it in order to carry on further the projects started by this Government.

“(…) I encouraged them to go in for politics if they want to, but when they announce their candidatures they should step back and will go on electoral campaign. As for me, I will not change my opinion,” the premier pointed out.

Questioned if he might be still premier after the general elections, Ciolos answered: “I will not interpret <if or kind of> My goal is to carry my term through.”

Referring to another topic, PM Ciolos said the government was under pressure to change the date of general elections sometime in autumn. “There were pressures to use all kinds of artifice and interpretations to organise the elections sometime earlier in autumn. It’s not something that should be done, the law must be observed,” Ciolos told TVR.

In regard to the rumour that the social-democrats have allegedly announced they would not vote the state budget earlier than February next year, the Prime Minister said: “It’s their problems what to vote and what not to vote. We are doing our job, including in terms of the budget. We were handed a budget when we took over the governance, we are going to hand over a draft budget. We will decide, under the circumstances, if we would adopt it in the government, or should leave it for the next cabinet,” the Prime Minister said.