The president of the USR, Elena Lasconi, states that in no meeting of the National Party Bureau was addressed the question of her withdrawal from the presidential race.
Elena Lasconi, USR President Photo: Capture TVR
She mentioned that she was “a fighter”, despite the attempts that aimed to remove her from the electoral competition.
“I think my colleagues from the USR support me. At least at least I only heard that there would be some who would not support me. No one ever told me, I never discussed in the meetings of the National Bureau-and I had some Since the election was canceled – to discuss that I should withdraw. Be enough. I don’t have this information. (…) and after, but also before (there were attempts, no)“, Lasconi said, for B1 TV, writes Agerpres.
Asked if a withdrawal from her or Nicuşor Dan, the USR Lidera replied that “Anything is possible”. At the same time, he expressed his conviction that he will have meetings with the mayor of the Capital, Nicuşor Dan, in the next period.
“We will order surveys, we will make focus groups. I am open to the dialog. We always had the door open and the phone at hand. One hundred percent we will meet again”Lasconi said.
He also explained why she stated on Wednesday that she is not “intruder ” in the race for the presidential elections.
“The press tried through questions to suggest me to retire. And I said I am not an intruder. That was actually the explanation. Because I already went through a presidential campaign and I arrived in the second round. I think it was an abusive decision of the Constitutional Court, because we do not, after all, we do not have a clear proof of intervention of a foreign state in the presidential elections in Romania, we have no culprit, there is no investigation. Everyone is silent.“, she said.
The USR president also appreciated that because of “disappointment“Citizens, there is a smaller presence in the following elections.
“I talked to people on the street, who say I no longer see why to vote, that their vote does not matter. Especially in the diaspora, because it was canceled while voting, they called me people who have Walk 200 and some kilometers to vote, in several places in this world.Lasconi said.
