The scenarios of all kinds are weaved according to the recent statements of the independent candidate Victor Ponta, considered uninspired, as a pure political calculation. A sociologist explains whether or not he played the chance to enter the 2nd round, relating to how he adopted the “heroic” decision to save Belgrade.
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The political scene was inflamed on Thursday, just one day after the more “heavy” announcement in the USR that they withdraw their support for the party president, Elena Lasconi, to support Nicușor Dan. This time Victor Ponta occupied the agenda, which sparked a wave of reactions, in an interview for EVZ, nonchalating, that in 2014 he made the decision to flood several localities from the stream of Iron Gates to save Belgrade from the neighboring country from catastrophic floods. Answer a question, Ponta explained how he got to obtain the Serbian citizenship, which he now gives up for the position of president of Romania.
“They gave it to me because I helped them with an extraordinary thing, which I will write in my memoir book. During the floods, I gave an order over the Romanian structures to open the valley from the Iron Gates and this way Belgrade was not flooded. Only a suburb was flooded, but if I didn’t open the iron gates, Belgrade floods, ” Ponta replied. Next, the “sovereignist” candidate detailed how everything went, as he called “All in the government”at 12 at night, on a Friday. “In the morning at 5 there were gendarmes, ISU, everyone in the Romanian villages on the clisura … I think I flooded on Dinescu then and that’s why I don’t call me to turn a ham, that he is always with the Ciola …”, Ponta continued. The former prime minister continued to report that he would have given Mircea Dinescu, for the property flooded from the fortress, “More than he was doing his nightmare,” This is denied by the writer, who said today that he will sue him.
The state company and the main energy producer in Romania, Hidroelectrica, transmitted an official point of view after Victor Ponta’s statements, who claimed that in 2014 he ordered the opening of the dams from the Iron Gates to avoid floods in Belgrade, which would have led to the flooding of Romanian villages.
“The exploitation of the Iron Iron I and the Iron Gates are regulated by the 1998 operating agreement, ratified by the Romanian Parliament with Law 14/1999 by the Regulation of the Common Deputy Energy Service (SCDE) where the period of big water is regulated ”says Hidroelectrica.
“For the particular situation from May 18 to 26, 2014, when the Danube debts reached values above 11,500 cubic meters/s, provided in the Romanian-Serbian documents, the exploitation of the iron gates I and the Iron Gates II were made in full compliance with the provisions of the Convention and the SCDE regulation, the level upstream of the Iron Gates dam being 63.00 MDMA”, Explained the company. In such situations, the debit evacuated downstream must be equal to the one entered in the accumulation lake, just as in a natural regime, without the influence of the hydropower systems.
Specifically, in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement of November 30, 1963 regarding the achievement and operation of the hydropower and navigation system the Iron Gates, on the Danube and the Convention of May 16, 1998 between the Government of Romania and the Federal Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the exploitation and maintenance of the hydropower and navigation systems. Nerei at the mouth of Timocului, and when reaching alert levels – as is the case with the floods upstream – it is established to open the dam.
“You have no way to calculate such stupidity”
Sociologist Gelu Sunday sees him “Loner” on Victor Ponta after this episode and says that if he had been in his campaign staff, he would be “Swim an hour after that statement.”
“For someone who has the name related to the collective, to mention events in which they were dead, in the hope that you will be considered a hero, it is at least immature. (…) I do not think it was calculated. You can not calculate such a fool.“Says the sociologist.
The hypothesis would not stand that Ponta’s confession would have come for preventive purposes, in order not to give his counter -candidates if they had resorted to the story of this episode, for the simple reason that Ponta does not make the parade for the first time that brought the citizenship of the neighbor.
“This is not the first time he said, he said in 2021 if I am not wrong. He had nothing to detonate in front in the conditions in which the man repeated this thing considering that he had a bravery. I understand that sometimes you have to make decisions like this and that you have to … but it does not put it in that title of emphasis and all the silence. Two – those events in 2014 had four dead. At those floods there were four dead, several hundred houses destroyed. The houses, give them Lord forgive me, that they are done, although for the families who were there it is not simple. But what do you do with four human lives? ”he asks on Sunday.
The sociologist says that if he were in a direct battle with Victor Ponta, as is the case with the other competitors in the race for Cotroceni, he would mention, at each debate, the names of the four floods of 2014 mentioned in the press. “And I would ask him if he knew them. And what he tells them. (…) From my point of view, his reign bought a tesla and struck him where he hurts the most, politically speaking. I do not understand why you would do a thing like that in the way he did it. But no. Sometimes maybe old Iliescu’s name, the one with
Another theory, issued by Miron Mitrea in a live intervention on a television, according to which in fact the role of Victor Ponta in this campaign would have been to help Nicușor Dan, it does not stand. “Do not commit yourself politically. Take it like this: Mr. Ponta’s name are related to the dozens of victims from the Collective. What did you do? You put four more dead and hundreds of houses destroyed. Well, good man, I can understand that you could help him, but you could not find it. We do scripted. said the sociologist.
Ponta offered the “silver bullet” to the counter -candidates with the 2014 flood statements, the emotion and anger generated can be exploited, says Sunday. And the facts that Ponta reveals shocked, but especially how he exposed them, he thinks. “You don’t say it with an ego as if you were the hero of the nation. It shows empathy for those people!
Although during the day Ponta returned with explanations, trying to show that his decision saved hundreds of people, the evil was done. “For nothing! The image of his reign remains, with the words he said, with the attitude, with the non-verbal. And do not forget, 93% of the language is non-verbal. Please look at the non-verbal of Mr. Ponta. (…) Arrogance, miserupism, missing, all things. This image ”, emphasized on Sunday.
Asked if Ponta now risks entering tour 2, the sociologist was categorical: “Ooo, yes, everything is volatile! And if the counter -candidates know how to march on this thing and bring to the surface, decent, beautiful, with empathy, arousing emotion, certainly ”concluded the sociologist.
Ciolacu: “Withdraw from the race!” Ponta replied with a threat
A few hours after publishing his statements, the reactions began to flow, both on social networks and in answers to the questions asked by journalists.
Ciolacu avoided in the course of the morning to give a sharp response, just saying that “Would not have done” The same thing, because in the afternoon he would ask his former counselor to withdraw from the race for Cotroceni.
In a Facebook post, Ciolacu became much braver, taxing the former PSD chief.
“To recognize clear-after years!-that you have agreed, as prime minister of Romania, to flood Romanian villages to save foreign cities and to boast that, as a reward, you received the citizenship of another state, it is clear that the sovereignism does not keep! (…) Victor! President! the prime minister sent him.
Victor Ponta has remained debt and, also on Facebook, told the prime minister that he will dismiss him when he reaches Cotroceni.
“I think Mr. Ciolacu should take an emergency with a prime minister – otherwise I will dismiss him, as soon as I become president! (…) I saw that he has already received public insurance from Nicușor Dan that he will remain premier. Well, I also assure Marcel Ciolacu that I will be chosen by Romanians as President of Romania and that I will immediately remove him from the position of prime minister, as he does so much harm to this country! And, unlike others, I do not even guarantee a private plane for departure ”, Ponta wrote.
“Sovereign Victor Ponta to explain to Romanians why Serbia puts on the first place when choosing where to produce Danube, when choosing citizenship and when choosing where to hide their fugitive friends in Romania ”, Nicușor Dan also reacted. He also said he would ask Marcel Ciolacu “The publication and desecretization of all the documents underlying the decisions taken by Prime Minister Victor Ponta at the time of floods in 2014”.
“Victor Ponta has to explain publicly why Serbia put before Romania. Remember how Ponta put the gendarmes on the floods, who by boat, how the only name found for a woman minister was “without”? Look, this wasn’t the worst. We find out now, right from the mouth of his reign, that to win something personal – Serbian citizenship – knowingly flooded Romania to save Belgrade. Such a man do you think will defend Romania in difficult situations? It seems that he cannot put the country first, if he does not have something to take from it ”, It was also the reaction of Elena Lasconi.
Victor Ponta has gathered not only the reaction of politicians, but also accusations of high treason, already formulated to the competent institutions.
