President Iohannis retorts to Senate Speaker Tariceanu: He is a little bit obsessed. What has ex-minister Elena Udrea told about “the parallel state”?

After the Senate Speaker accused him of being the beneficiary of the “parallel state”, President Klaus Iohannis has taken a stand saying that Calin Popescu Tariceanu is a little bit obsessed and has strange statements.

“There are no occult force or a parallel state in Romania, I have been watching for a while the above-mentioned gentleman’s statements, he sometimes had interesting approaches. I haven’t watched his allegations lately for they have got stranger and stranger. He sometimes seems to be a little obsessed and these persons don’t do any good to politics. To make matters worse, the approaches have come up more intensely since the prosecutors have sent his case into court,” said the Romanian President.

Senate Speaker Calin Popescu Tariceanu has stated on Monday that president Klaus Iohannis is “beneficiary” of the “parallel state”. He also reproached the head of state he has no reaction, although the DNA chief prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi has broken the Constitution twice in a year.

Udrea: “The parallel state” has been designed outside the country in 2009

On Thursday, former Tourism minister and Traian Basescu’s ex-presidential aide, Elena Udrea, has been heard in the committee probing into the 2009 elections, stating that “the parallel state” has been designed in 2009, outside the country. Moreover, Udrea said she had heard about the meeting in Gabriel Oprea’s house from the former deputy premier himself.

“2009 was the start of the parallel state’s creation, the system, as I named it, and its peak was during 2014-2015. I have thought for a long time that it had been the creation of only one man, of general Coldea, but today I realize that the plan is enforced in Romania, but it is designed somewhere else, not here, but outside the country,” Elen Udrea said.

She added that this plan, designed abroad, had been implemented with the help of the SRI heads’ CIA partners and of the relations that Maior and Coldea (former SRI director and deputy director) used to have in the USA.

“The one who led the system in Romania was Coldea. I cannot say who has taken the reins now,” the former minister said.

As for the alleged meeting before the elections of 2009 at Gabriel Oprea’s place attended by DNA’s Kovesi and former intelligence heads, Udrea stated she had said about this meeting in 2016 as well. “Several days after that night, Oprea told me the meeting had taken place and that it had been attended by Maior, Coldea, Kovesi, mayor Ontanu (ex-District 2 mayor).