The PNL vice-president, Robert Sighiartău, reproached the president Nicușor Dan for moving away from the promises made in the electoral campaign and that, instead of playing the role of mediator during the political crisis, he chose to be “biased” and sided with the PSD.
Invited to a show on Digi24, Robert Sighiartău, the vice-president of the PNL, said on Saturday, July 4, that he does not understand the decisions made by Nicușor Dan in recent months, because they no longer have anything to do with the promises that the current president made during the election campaign, which is why he believes that he “betrayed” those who voted for him.
The vice-president of the PNL confessed that he supported Nicușor Dan both in the elections for the City Hall of the Capital in 2020 and afterwards, but at this moment he believes that the president no longer promotes the principles for which he received the vote of an important part of the right-wing electorate and that he took a position on the PSD side, despite his statements regarding the fact that he is reduced to being a mediator.
“From my point of view, biased, in no way a mediator. And you are told by a man who voted for Nicusor Dan and supported him from the position of general secretary of the National Liberal Party for the position of mayor of the Capital in 2020 (…). I don’t understand why he chose not to support what he supported in the campaign, that is, some right-wing, reformist principles, to pursue the reform of the Romanian state, to pursue the independence of the judiciary and some lines for which many citizens they voted for him”, said Robert Sighiartău at Digi24.
In the opinion of the liberal leader, the rift between Nicuşor Dan and PNL became more and more obvious with the positions adopted by him in several political moments. He accuses Nicușor Dan of distancing himself from the reforms promoted by the Government led by Ilie Bolojan and reproaches him including the fact that he did not defend the liberal Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan after the AUR submitted the motion against him.
“It was seen that there was a distancing, first of all, from the principles, the reforms, the direction of the Bolojan government, when he came and with Mr. Vestea and he did not criticize the censure motion submitted with AUR, by the way, which should, in his view, be isolated. That’s when I realized that Mr. Nicusor Dan still has a problem with the National Liberal Party, a visible thing, by the way. Or with Ilie Bolojan”, said the vice-president of the PNL.
He believes that Nicușor Dan did not lose the support of the voters because of the unpopular measures adopted by the government, but because, after the elections, he adopted positions totally opposite to what he had promised in the election campaign, citing as an example the way the president responded to the proposals from the Ministry of Justice.
“Mr. Nicusor Dan lost a large base in this electorate, including the National Liberal Party, not because of unpopular reforms, but because of the fact that he supported the exact opposite of what he supported during the campaign period. And think about what happened in the judiciary during this period, when the proposals of the Ministry of Justice, led by the Social Democratic Party, were accepted by the president Nicusor Dan”. he said.
In the same show, the PNL vice-president also commented on the controversial statement recently made by Nicușor Dan in Gdansk, where the president said that, once he arrived in Cotroceni, he could no longer fight the “system” because he was “the head of the system”.
“If we were to go by the statements of President Nicusor Dan, he said that he is the head of the system. It remains to be seen if this is confirmed. (…) I believe that the system, as generic as we call it, has several centers of power and that it has much older roots in the Romanian state and in the state’s institutions (…). At the moment when those who influence the decisions never settle electorally and do not present themselves to the Romanians, then there is a problem of representation and especially of democracy. That is, there is a democratic deficit”. the PNL vice-president also said.
We remind you that Robert Sighiartău is one of the most vocal supporters within the Liberal Party of the idea of early elections, which he believes is the solution to get out of the political crisis generated by the fall of the government and prolonged by the tensions between the political parties that were in a coalition a few months ago. He vehemently rejects the possibility of PNL and PSD forming a coalition in the near future.
