Former prime minister Dacian Ciolos has announced in a press conference on Friday that he had filed documents in court to set up the party “Romania Together Movement, whose logo will be “RO+”. The party comes off the civic platform Romania 100.
“In December last year I announced that a political party will come off the “Platform Romania 100”. I have filed the request for the party’s registration in court this morning. The party is called Romania Together Movement. We’ll launch the party after it is registered,” Ciolos said.
He stated that political programme is shaped around ‘values like honesty, competence, common sense, transparency and is based on the principle that every human being is important, that a project must be built around people and their values and that all solutions must underlie these values.’
Ciolos also pointed out that the founding members have assumed only an administrative role, but the party belongs to all those who have invested in the Platform Romania 100.
The former technocrat PM also announced during the press conference the launch of the website romaniaimpreuna.ro.
According to a message posted on the new website, Ciolos states: “Some of you maybe expected that we would do more. You would have liked that some of us, some of the technocrats, should be more present in the politics so far, to have used better your confidence and support. We had some hesitations about what we should have done and it’s possible we had made some mistakes. But all we did was in good faith. We have never been afraid of working hard. We have never fled difficult problems.
But we don’t have the immunity of the typical politician, who is trained to be bespattered and bespatter. We are neither aggressive nor <shifters>. Most part of our convictions and of our desire to do good is based on a solid set of moral values, not on the desire for power.”
Dacian Ciolos also said that the party will be supported by small donations of the Romanians “who want a normal country without politicians chained by the biased financiers” and will have totally transparent expenses and donations.
He stressed though that his action will be “an ambitious and risky” attempt, especially that the expectations are high.
“We would like to inspire the people who think that Romania deserves a new political class, having no tolerance for corruption, nepotism … We need you, in fact, we need one another. Romania Together Movement will gain a formal existence in the upcoming months and we’ll start preparations for the upcoming elections,” said the former technocrat PM, also informing the party needs followers and volunteers “ready to donate time and money so that a new political class should be built”, who will become party members after the court Oks the party’s registration.