CTP explains why he does not vote Nicușor Dan La Presidential, although he voted twice to become mayor

The newspaper Cristian Tudor Popescu explains that Nicușor Dan's unclear ties with the businessman Matei Păun make him not vote in the race for Cotroceni. He says in a Facebook post that although he voted on Nicușor Dan both in 2020 and in 2024 for the position of mayor of the Capital, now, being the Presidency of Romania, there is another situation.

The post published on Facebook on Sunday by Cristian Tudor Popescu is entitled “Păun's tail”.

The newspaper begins with the text with the specification that in an interview on Prima TV Nicușor Dan was asked what he chooses between the Bible and the Constitution, and the current general mayor chose “the Bible and the Constitution, in this order”.

“I would also answer the undersigned, because the Constitution is to be read only once, then it is a reference to which you call. The Bible, on the other hand, certain parts of it, first of all the book of Job, read and read them with the feeling of great literature. The Bible, not all, can be loved, the Constitution must be respected,” writes Cristian Tud

The worse option than “Putin Matei Păun” that Nicușor Dan could do, in CTP's vision

The newspaper reports that in the same show Nicușor Dan was asked who would choose between Ion Cristoiu and Cristian Tudor Popescu, and the independent candidate for the presidential one.

“It honors me that a man of Mr. Dan's intelligence spoke: CTP. But if he had opted for the other possibility, he would have been worse than the option, which he maintains, for his head of campaign, the little Matei Păun,” according to Cristian Tudor Popescu.

Then, the newspaper lists a series of statements that he claims made by Matei Păun.

“This gentleman said that Putin is not” bad “, but rather” the belicos and blood-thirsty West “, through the sanctions applied to Russia for the invasion and annexation of Crimea. It believes that” the Russian federation defends Christianity, while America and the depraved West attacks it. ” Putin, they were put up by the West.

“About M. Păun's business in Russia and Belarus I only say I am Taman in Russia and Belarus,” he added.

“I have struck this” philosophy “many times in the last 10 years. With some of its supporters I had even close relationships. Who have ceased as soon as they started to preach something. I simply do not support such people, who call Zelenski” a tiiplicate who kills his people “, a man,”

“I voted Mr. Dan for the Bucharest City Hall and in 2020, and in 2024. About M. Păun I didn't know much, and I was not interested”

Cristian Tudor Popescu says that in 2020 and 2024 when he voted Nicușor Dan to become the general mayor of the capital, he did not know “much” about Matei Păun: “And I was not interested in finding out more, this being an administrative function, however. The Presidency of Romania, but it is something else.

“I did not see anything Pro Kremlin in any of the positions of Mr. Dan. On the contrary, his attitude Pro Nato and the EU was always clear, unequivocal. The more it intrigued my insistence, even after entering the battle for Cotroceni, to keep it hanging on his image. Which have become the last months, after some photos have been put in front … ”, points out Cristian Tudor Popescu.

He explains that this made him say that in connection with Nicușor Dan there is something “dark and cold”, when he announced that he will vote with Crin Antonescu in the presidential elections in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“This triggered my words” something dark and cold “, which are not quite rational, as Mr. Dan with M. Păun cannot explain to me rationally. These rows of discomfort are suitable for the Christian-Orthodox believer Nicușor Dan, while Putin, the defendant, the defendant Easter ”, Cristian Tudor Popescu ends.

Nicușor Dan, about his relationship with Matei Păun: “It is such a mythology that formed and which in my opinion has no foundation”

Present on Saturday in the Political Insider show, from Prima TV, Nicușor Dan was asked about his relationship with Matei Păun and if he believes that this relationship can affect his election campaign.

“I said he was in a circle of friends, that is, I did not go with my family and he with his family. I was in a circle of friends and I met in that environment. Absolutely, absolutely clear in the Western direction ”, said the mayor of the Capital, quoted by News.ro.

Nicușor Dan said that Matei Păun led his campaign and USR in 2016, but said that he is not involved in the current campaign for the presidential elections: “I called a few times to ask some issues exactly, with whom do you think we should do a survey?”.

“I just say what I said several times on several occasions that it is someone who drove my and USB and USR 2016 campaign and who has an expert on campaigns and which on certain occasions I consult on issues like who you would do a survey, these absolutely logistical things,” Nicuşor Dan stressed

Nicuşor Dan stated that Matei Păun did not do business in his personal name in the ex-Soviet space.

“His business, from what he told me, if you had the opposite proof, he told me that he did not do business in a personal name, but only that he was the employee of a Western company that worked in ex-Soviet space in the 90s,” said the mayor of the Capital.