Victor Ponta reacted on Thursday evening, twice to the posting of Elena Lasconi and threatened her counter-candidate with a criminal complaint. The same threats were also launched at Antena 3 CNN. In reply, Mihai Gâdea announced that he is suing.
Victor Ponta. Photo: video capture
In a live broadcast on Facebook, the independent candidate said he never met in private with Nicușor Dan.
“The system is more and more desperate. This evening, Antena 3, at the order of Dan Voiculescu, for Crin Antonescu, used Elena Lasconi, the useful idiot of the system, with a fake news, that I saw Nicușor Dan and Florian Coldea. I have in front of the Bible, I want to swear with my hand on the Bible: I never met Nicușor Dan, on no private occasion, except for the TVR debate on Tuesday“Ponta said.
Ponta said that Florian Coldea did not meet in recent years and says that the photos used by Lasconi would be from 2018:
“I did not see myself with Florian Coldea, neither in 2025, nor in 2024, nor in 2023. I saw with Florian Coldea when I was prime minister, and he, deputy director.”
“Elena Lasconi and you are faithful. Why do you comed these bastards?”
“This is not how Crin Antonescu can not arrive in the second round. Not so Elena Lasconi avenges Nicuşor Dan. (…) You closed your phone, Elena Lasconi. Tomorrow morning I will file a criminal complaint against Elena Lasconi and against Antena 3 for this fake news and you will have to go to the parquet and admit that you have produced a fake news. Elena Lasconi and you are faithful. Why do you commit these bastards? Your hatred towards Nicuşor Dan is a sin. To accuse someone you do not know, one thing you know is false, liar, is a sin, Elena Lasconi ”, told Victor Ponta Elena Lasconi.
Ponta continued:
“Tomorrow morning I will make a complaint to all the state institutions, to the National Audiovisual Council, because Antena 3 did not call me to ask me. They knew very well that I was a fake news and that’s why they didn’t call me. The other TVs and the other press organs called me. 2018 I did not meet, nor with Nicuşor Dan with whom I never met“Ponta said.
Previously, Victor Ponta had also posted a similar message on Facebook and also as a reaction to the photos with him, Nicușor Dan and Florian Coldea posted by Lasconi.
“I never met Nicușor Dan in a private house or in another place, except for the TVR debate! I never met Florian Coldea in 2024 or 2025 (we only met in official quality, when I was a prime minister and he deputy director)! These gross fakes are propagated by” Joker “! Let you be ashamed, the bastards! You have misfortune Romania and the Romanians, and now you want to lie to them and manipulate them! But the Romanians have woken up and will give you a hard lesson, which you deserve! I announce that tomorrow I will file a criminal complaint against Elena Lasconi and Antena 3 for this fake! The justice must punish them for these forgeries! ”, Victor Ponta wrote on Facebook, in a text that accompanies his video explanations.
Mihai Gâdea: “I will ask for a million euros” to Victor Ponta
The general manager of Antena 3 CNN, Mihai Gâdea, announced on Thursday night that Victor Ponta is acting in court.
“I write a lot of colleagues in the press, ask me if I want to have a reaction to what lies Victor Ponta says about me. My reaction is one: I will act Victor Ponta In court and I will ask him for a million euros in damages, money I will donate to the needy children ”, Gâdea said live on Antena 3.
We recall that on Thursday night, one day after asking Nicușor Dan if he met Florian Coldea, Elena Lasconi posted on Facebook a series of photos that she says suggests that she would demonstrate a meeting between Nicușor Dan, Florian Coldea and Victor Ponta.
Nicușor Dan accused that the photos “sbutter a gross false. This alleged meeting has never been held ” And he threatened Elena Lasconi to sue her.
“I have never met Florian Coldea, except in the context of 10 years ago, which I mentioned. I have never met with Victor Ponta, except at the official ceremonies. I will make a criminal complaint against Elena Lasconi for false and deception (…) Is despair in the system“, Commented Nicușor Dan, on Thursday night, in a press conference.
