Nicolae Ciucă held a speech for over half an hour in front of his colleagues at the event in which the PNL candidate for the position of president of Romania was officially designated. Speaking about the two landmark parties, Ciucă called the coalition partners “descendants of the Communist Party”.
Nicoae Ciucă, at the PNL National Council, September 15, 2024 PHOTO: Inquam Photos/George Călin
On Sunday, September 15, 2024, the Liberals officially nominated their candidate for the 2024 Presidential Elections within the National Council.
The leader of the PNL, Nicolae Ciucă, arrived at Sala Palatului after the start of the works, being present, Sunday morning, in Galați county, in the flood-affected areas. Ciucă also began his speech by talking about the disaster left behind by Cyclone Boris, asking his colleagues to show “solidarity, cohesion, empathy” and urging them to go help.
He later spoke of liberal values and the historical importance of the National Liberal Party, labeling Liberals as “a great electoral power in Romanian politics”.
“Many parties appeared, disappeared, in the years of post-communist democracy, some of them even being high in Romanians’ preferences at a given moment, but the constant political landmarks on our political scene have always remained two: the descendants of the Communist Party and us, the national-liberals “said Ciuca.
The President of the PNL and the candidate for the Presidency of Romania also “touched” his colleagues from the government in other moments of his speech. He stated, among other things, that “people’s mistrust comes from collaboration with PSD”. “We wanted to build the coalition with the natural right-wing ally”, said Ciuca.
Nicolae Ciucă even claimed that his first option is a right-wing alliance. “I will say clearly: we want to make a coalition with the right-wing parties. It’s our first option. And the Romanians. We want a mature partner we can rely on,” said the PNL candidate.
He stated that Romanians have the ability to build their well-being, but they ask the state to let them do it. “We don’t want a state that gives, we want a state that doesn’t take”Ciucă presented his economic vision, also stating that “Romanians want prosperity and freedom from the ’90s onwards”again “The PNL, by its tradition, was the only one who understood that one does not exist without the other.” “You cannot be prosperous unless you are free and you cannot be free unless you are prosperous”said Ciuca.
