“The correct decision”. Victor Ponta answers the question why Serbia put in the first place

Former Prime Minister Victor Ponta states that he is reconciled with the decision to support the opening of the locks from the Iron Gates, so that the capital of Serbia, Belgrade, is away from floods, although the water covered, instead, land in Romania in 2014. He also explained why the Romanian authorities did not communicate publicly, at that time.

“It is a thing that I am very reconciled with souls and I am proud, as a Romanian, that I have helped our neighbors in the trouble. I want to answer with my heart and in front of God why I think I did a good thing for any man, for any Romanian and for any Christian,” said Victor Ponta on Thursday night, on the TV, on the TV,

Asked why Serbia put in the first place, although his campaign slogan is “Romania in the first place”, Ponta replied: “I put the people and the lives of people, so I was raised from home, so I read in the Bible, so my mother said, I think we are all learned, the first thing you save.”

The former PSD leader also claimed that “it is a sin” to say that “you are interested” only the lives of Romanians, not that of people of other nationalities.

“When I had a choice between human lives and some flooding lands, and today I think the right decision is to save human lives, this makes a leader in crisis, making decisions and I will do as president because there will be crisis and I think this is waiting for me from me,” Ponta said.

The former premir said that he called the Government experts at that time, at midnight one day on Friday, and received assurances that the lives of the Romanians are not in danger if the locks are open and the water on Romanian land is open.

Asked why the decision made was not communicated to the public opinion then, Ponta replied: “Because it was Friday night, because I had a press counselor who helped me then, now he gets me on another television (…) and because there were floods in Romania in other areas, in the Gorj area and in the Vâlcea area. we report ”.

He also said that the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (ISU) communicates about events such as floods and, not victims and no danger to people, “he had nothing to communicate.”

“He had no ISU to scare the world, since there was no one in danger,” Ponta argued.

The former prime minister added that in 2006 the Serbs opened locks and broke damages, saving localities at risk of floods in the Romanian Banat.

“Honestly, I think that this is how some neighbors have to behave, and what I heard today-” Ponta, you had to let the Serbs die, not to lose Dinescu (Mircea Dinescu, no) the landfill “-I think there is something that does not define the Romanian people.

Former PSD leader and prime minister Victor Ponta, who is applying independently for the presidential elections in May with the slogan “Romania in the first place”, said on Wednesday, in a moderate podcast by Robert Turcescu, that he has Serbian citizenship because in 2014 he “helped with an extraordinary thing”. He claims that he then gave “order over the Romanian structures to open the valley from the Iron Gates”, so that Belgrade does not flood. Asked why that disposition was needed by him, Ponta said: “Because the Romanian side was flooded. And it was flooded.”

Ponta's statements regarding the floods of 2014 caused strong reactions in the public space, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, Coalition Candidate, Crin Antonescu, and PSD leaders asking them to withdraw from this year's presidential race. And the leader of the Law Party, Vlad Gheorghe, announced on Facebook that he will file a criminal complaint at the Prosecutor's Office near the ICCJ for high treason on behalf of the former prime minister.

Ponta answered them, previously on Thursday, claiming that “in hard times true leaders make decisions for people, and haters criticize and misinform.” “In 2014, I took care of first and foremost Romanians – no inhabitant in the Riveran area of ​​the Danube was in danger – no household was severely affected. I saved thousands of human lives from the neighboring country and friend Serbia,” he wrote.

In a message published on Facebook on Thursday, the former prime minister said that in 2014 there were the biggest floods in the last 120 years in Europe, which produced huge victims and destruction, and Romania, as a good neighbor, helped the countries in danger.

“I am prepared for all the dirty and desperate attacks of the” Soros “network and the corruptions that fear me. Nothing and no one can intimidate or stop my way now. The current crisis, let's show their dignity and safety for the future!

Hidrolectrica reacted, in a press release, and transmitted that the exploitation of the hydropower and navigation system from the Iron Gates is regulated by law, there are provisions including for the periods of big water, and, in May 2014, the operation was made respecting the regulations in force.

For his part, Răzvan Nicolescu, Minister of Energy during the floods of May 2014, has reached that the institution that makes decisions in the case of discharge of a river is the national administration of the Romanian Waters, under the authority of the Ministry of Environment, and the discharge provisions issued by ANAR are implemented by the branches of the companies. Nicolescu stressed that he was not consulted and never participated in a decision to discharge a river.

Hotnews showed on Thursday, after the outbreak of the scandal, that Victor Ponta's ties with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic are profound.

Ponta was appointed in 2016 Honorary counselor of Vucic, the current leader from Belgrade who at that time was a prime minister. Also, in 2014, after the episode of the floods, Victor Ponta had at least three Vucic meetings, according to the data on the Romanian Government's website.

Ponta's connection with Serbia is also Sebastian Ghiță, the one who controls Romania TV and ran to this country in December 2016.