PSD has validated Crin Antonescu’s candidacy for the presidential elections

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Crin Antonescu’s candidacy for the presidential elections was validated on Sunday by a vote at the PSD Extraordinary Congress. Thus, Antonescu now has the official support of the PNL, UDMR and PSD.

This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. In our case, it’s a little different, the story is a little more interesting, a little more spectacular and all I want, not just for us, but for our country, is for this long and complicated story to have a happy ending,” said Crin Antonescu.

The PSD Congress took place at the Palace of Parliament, but PSD members also participated online. Antonescu’s candidacy was validated with 5,484 “yes” votes, 18 negative votes and 14 abstentions.

“We have to bring order to politics, public institutions and schools. Schools must produce educated young people, not misinformed ones. We need young people who understand that respect is fundamental. People must understand through culture that Romania must be a free country, but in which there must be respect for what is in the majority. I believe that the family is made up of a man and a woman. At the same time, I believe that we must guarantee the freedom of any choice, including sexual ones, but I believe that in terms of family, education and public events, it is very good that this remains our private choice. I do not want one week with heterosexual events and one with homosexual events”,  Antonescu stated.

“I am here and I have answered your call and I enter this role with confidence if you will do it starting from the conviction not that the parties are wonderful, that they have not disappointed, that they have not disappointed me either, but from the premise that we Romanians have a choice between the discourse of the false icon working false miracles that announces to us that the parties will disappear and my belief and desire that this will not happen”, the new PSD-PNL presidential candidate argued.

“The disappearance of the parties means the disappearance of democracy, this Petrache Lupu does not tell us what happens next after we liquidate the parties. I am here and I am honored to be with you because, for better or for worse, these parties are the ones that can defend what needs to be defended in Romania and are the ones that can change what can be changed, not someone else. I have seen the alternatives, I do not understand why we, those who believe this, are defensive, as if we were guilty of defending democracy. We have to think about one clear thing: simple people, active or reservists, simple citizens or politicians, we must answer: if a certain order of things in the house must make us tear down the house or put things in order. I don’t see why we have to be defensive, you, again, were designated by Romanians with the same vote of the first party of Romania, the party that in 35 years of democracy has obtained the most votes of Romanians, almost every time. It is the party that created frustrations, mistakes, but it also created all these things that today lead us to the best situation of Romania in history. Romanians are truly European today. I note that the European Union has become too small for some geopoliticians around the master. We need to defend our condition as a country of the EU, of NATO, of the Partnership with the United States. I believe that the great battle that I hope we will fight together is not only the electoral one, but begins after that, we have major turbulence in international relations, in the structures of international life and we also have things to solve internally.

I believe that as far as the president is concerned, a few things need to be clarified: I will be a strong president, not by violating the Constitution or by misinterpreting it. There are also things that I have not done, I have not jumped around proclaiming a principle, something like that must never happen again, I will be strong through commitment, attitude and partnership. There is nothing that the president can do alone, there is nothing that the president does not feel responsible for. For you, for the parties, as for other institutions, my message: Always a partner, never an accomplice. There are many things that need to be put in order. I am not referring to secret services. I am referring to the elites who for 35 years have demanded status and prestige from political forces. It is time for the president, without having authority, to ask them: but what have you done for the Romanians? About me and about some of my beliefs, I can tell you: these beliefs cannot influence the legislation in Romania, I intend to respect the Constitution. The leadership, for the most part, is done by the Government, and the president cooperates with the Government. I am telling you so that you know who you are dealing with, life has helped me remember a few things. I know what it means to be poor, I know what it means to be a child from the outskirts of the country, to have no files, to believe that your rights are only on a sheet of paper”, was part of Crin Antonescu’s speech.

“The most important thing is to keep Romania’s politics straight. I am not developing the aberrations about neutrality now. There is no neutrality for Romania or it exists without any guarantees. We know that for 20 years, the PSD has not promoted a member of the PSD through presidential elections. It will not happen now either, but what will happen is that you will have a president, a president who does not antagonize the rest of the voters against the most voted party in Romania. The president will be a partner of the PSD, you will have a president who will know how to respect a party like the others, but a party that is already a historical party. We only need to do what we know we can do and what we believe is normal, we only need faith, strength, courage, I pray to God to give them to you, to give them to me and to bless Romania”, said Crin Antonescu at the end of his speech at the congress.

Marcel Ciolacu: We only generated disgust

Marcel Ciolacu said that he wanted to be direct and to the point: “Today I decided to be direct and to the point, we, politicians, look in the mirror and see ourselves as beautiful and, above all, loved, the projected image is not the same as how people perceive us. Therefore, I think the time has come to cover the mirrors of our own ego and to demonstrate to Romanians that we truly understand what our flaws are and where we went wrong. We thought it was enough to start highways, regional hospitals, to do justice to pensioners and to increase Romanians’ incomes. We thought it was enough to enter Schengen, to give up visas for the USA. We actually thought that it was enough to have good governance to bring a left-wing president to Cotroceni after 20 years. We were wrong, just as Victor Ponta and Adrian Năstase, two prime ministers who governed Romania well, were wrong,” the prime minister said during the congress.

“Romanians wanted a president profile for achievements in government, no one applauded us, people told us it was our duty. In fact, our role and job description is in this sense. I want to tell you that it is correct, I, personally, was wrong. I was also wrong that I trusted a partner who did not find the maturity to have elections when I announced to the Romanians, to have a common candidate. His name should not have been Marcel Ciolacu or Nicolae Ciucă. Stupid pride made us run separately and fill each other with mud every night on all televisions. We only generated disgust, and the result was that the Romanians turned their backs on us and preferred a false Messiah. Some disappeared while we are here. It would be most convenient for us to give up now. We at PSD have never given up when it was difficult, we must assume the moment with just as much courage“, added Marcel Ciolacu.

“Repeating the same mistakes would mean turning Romania’s clock back 35 years. We are obliged to come before the united Romanians, with a man who has the presidential profile, a capable, experienced, educated, honest man, and above all, a patriot, a man with strong principles who knew how to fight for his values ​​and who was able to say “no”. This man is Crin Antonescu“, added the prime minister.

Ponta lashed out against Antonescu

Former Prime Minister Victor Ponta arrived at the extraordinary congress of the PSD. He declared that he does not support Crin Antonescu as the PSD candidate for the presidential election. “And no PSD member supports him. I hope I have the opportunity to speak,” said the former social-democratic prime minister.

Victor Ponta said on Sunday that he will “enter the fray” and propose a project of total change, so that Romanians have more courageous leaders who “propose a radical change, as they expect, not to let the Iohannis system continue for another 5 years”.

The former PSD PM stated, on Sunday, after the Extraordinary Congress of the PSD, at which he was unable to give a speech, that the current coalition is not listening to the Romanians and that only one candidate among those announced, Călin Georgescu, is talking about “radical change”, while “the others are the people of the system”.

“The Romanians gave a very clear signal in November, they are fed up with this bankrupt system of Iohannis, they are fed up with the arrangements between party leaders, they want to be heard, they want to be listened to and they want to make a radical change. Unfortunately, the Coalition is not listening to the Romanians, by designating a candidate of the past, of the system, a candidate of no one for nothing, they show that they do not want to make a change, they want to perpetuate everything that has been bad in these ten years. Today, only one announced candidate, Călin Georgescu, is talking about radical change, the others are the people of the system, they want to keep the system. I know they want to take him out of the competition, they want to shut everyone up”, Victor Ponta said, Sunday, after the PSD Extraordinary Congress.

Crin Antonescu, responded, on Sunday evening, to Victor Ponta (PSD) who accused him of being the “system’s candidate”: “It’s ridiculous to say that, but anyone has the right to make fun of themselves.” Antonescu stressed that he has never had any relationship with secret service chiefs, agents or former retrained officers.

“We will discuss the system with Mr. Ponta once. I don’t know why I have to take seriously all the statements made from the fence. From the fence at Mar-a-Lago, from the fence now in Bucharest. I am not the candidate of the system. I don’t know what is meant by the system. If by the system we mean those occult, undemocratic forces that would influence the political game in Romania, that now don’t let Mr. Ponta fight for Romanians, that prevent Mr. Georgescu from raising us as a nation, from making us great like we have never been, I don’t know what he has in mind.” Antonescu emphasized that everything he had was in plain sight, he was voted by the people for the positions he held.

“Everything I had in politics was visible and was obtained through a vote of the citizens. In 25 years of active politics, I was visible, during the Tăriceanu Government, as a parliamentarian, not a member of the Government. I was a minister for 3 years and I remember it with pleasure and I left something behind me, something that still works today, Minister of Sports during the Democratic Convention and I spent two more years with the USL, as party president, with the persecuted and persecuted Victor Ponta himself today,” Antonescu also declared. He emphasized that he had no relations with the heads of the secret services, and anyone who supports these things is making a fool of himself. “I have had no relations whatsoever, neither with the heads of the secret services, nor with their agents, nor with former retrained officers, I have never had, under any circumstances, any relationship with this whole web that the memoirs of Mr. Sebastian Ghiţă and Mrs. Elena Udrea and Mr. Victor Ponta describe very well. So I am not the candidate of the system, it is ridiculous to say that, but anyone has the right to make fun of themselves,” Antonescu added.

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