The internal elections in the PSD could be organized in October, after months of delays. The Congress puts several functions to the beat, not just the one of party president.
Former leader, Marcel Ciolacu, in a Congress of PSD photo Inqum Photos / Octav Ganea / Archive
According to information “Adevărul”, the Congress for PSD leadership could be organized in October, after months of delays under the leadership of the interim chief Sorin Grindeanu. The exact date for the organization of the elections has not yet been established, but two camps have already formed: one that supports Sorin Grineanu and the other made up of Titus Corlățean’s supporters.
Both camps come with different teams and different projects.
Posts put up in the PSD Congress
The current interim leader, Sorin Grindeanu, proposes to increase the number of first vice-presidents of the party from 2 to 4, according to sources quoted by G4media. Currently, the only first vice-president is Daniel Băluță. Among those you want from social democrats are Victor Negrescu, vice-president of the European Parliament, and the mayor of Craiova, Lia Olguța Vasilescu.
The party has 8 vice -presidents divided by regions and 8 other vice -presidents divided into fields. Florin Nicolae Jianu is vice-president responsible for entrepreneurship, SMEs and business environment, Lia Olguța Vasilescu is vice-president responsible for work and social protection, Gheorghe Holdan on regional and local development, Gabriel Valer Zetea on Administration and Infrastructure, Vasile Dîncu on European Affairs, Mihnea Costoiu The relationship with NGOs and civic dialogue, and Elisabeta Lipă is vice president on Sport.
The division by regions positions in the position of vice-president Bucharest-Ilfov on Marian Neacșu, current deputy prime minister, and Dumitrița Gliga on the center area. Corneliu Stefan is vice president for South. Ionuț Florin Pucheanu is vice-president on the south-east, Claudiu Manda on the southwest, Laurențiu Nistor on the western area, Emil Radu Moldovan on the northwest, and Adrian Dragoș Benea on the northeast.
In the PSD National Political Bureau are also the Secretary General of the Party, a position currently held by Paul Stănescu, and the president of the National Council, Mihai Tudose. Victor Negrescu, a law member and national coordinator of PES Activists Romania, is in the National Political Bureau.
The National Permanent Bureau is the management and decision structure of the party that meets at the convening of the president of the formation.
Titus Corlățean’s team accuses “Methods of pressure and intimidation”
The first to announce that he supports Titus Corlatean is the mayor of Buzau, Constantin Toma. “I believe in his strength and desire to bring the PSD to the great public trusts that have consecrated him, having around him valuable people, faithful to the social-democratic principles and with successful visions for Romania.”is the positioning of Robert Cazanciuc, another supporter of Corlatean.
Senator Titus Corlățen claims that his team is much more numerous, but they cannot assume public because of the pressures: “It is not yet a moment of public assumption“, He explained in the show Victoriei Square from Europa FM, because”The political life in a party such as PSD is complicated. This with the execution applied to some of the colleagues in the room, but there are ways of supervision, monitoring, pressure, intimidation, threats, more through the media, more directly through people from institutions. (…) It happens and it is a reality. ”
The “execution” about which the senator speaks is to change some members from the management of the Chamber of Deputies, whose head was taken over by Sorin Grindeanu after the executive withdrawal. Natalia Intotero, former Minister of the Family in the Ciolacu Government, took the place of Daniel Suciu as vice -president of the Chamber of Deputies, and Simona Bucur Oprescu, former Minister of Labor, replaced Mitică Mărgărit as a questionor of the Chamber of Deputies.
