Fire meeting of the ruling coalition to decide the strategy in the second round of the presidentials. Waves of reproaches
PSD, PNL and UDMR leaders meet on Monday, May 5, to establish the strategy that the governing coalition will adopt in the second round of the presidential elections.
In the meeting, which will start at 1 pm, will be discussed about the support of a common candidate in the final race for Cotroceni and the political and economic effects of the result on Sunday will be analyzed, when Crin Antonescu, the Coalition candidate, missed the qualification in the second round of the presidentials.
Ciolacu, accused of liberals of “damage” to the Coalition candidate.
The interim president of PNL Bistrița-Năsăud, deputy Robert Sighiartău, claims that the partial results of the presidential elections prove that the current government coalition “has no strong support in the territory”.
“For me at least, especially walking among people, I am not necessarily a surprise (partial results – no). It was very clear that there is a quite large desire, that this coalition, made up of the three parties, has no strong support in the territory and then, until now, we will see all these things, PNL-PSD-UDMR, if we do not enter the second round, we will have a problem to go forward on this road for reasons, in the end, to recognize everything that means the Liberal Ecture. said Sighiartău, according to Agerpres.
In the opinion of the Liberal MP, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, the PSD leader, represented “o brake” For the candidate of the electoral alliance “Romania before”Crin Antonescu.
“The re-election of Marcel Ciolacu as the prime minister brought damage to the presidential candidate, because there was an extremely negative current in the company regarding Klaus Iohannis, who withdrew, regarding Marcel Ciolacu and some exponents of the coalition.”
Hunor, about Nicușor Dan: “It would be a relief for the Hungarian community”
We recall that the UDMR leader, Kelemen Hunor, characterized Monday morning, live on the Kossuth radio, the vote from the Sunday presidential elections.
“I think it was a protest vote, in which the diaspora was the turning element.”
The president of the UDMR also spoke about the fact that Antonescu, the common candidate of the PSD-PNL-UDMR coalition, missed the qualification in the second round, explaining that not the burden of the Hungarians should be put, after the leaders of the ruling coalition have reproached the weakness of the electorate in the majority counties.
“Not because of the Hungarian community, Crin Antonescu missed the second round of the presidential elections.”
Asked who will support in the second round of presidents, Kelemen Hunor replied:
“Reason tells us to support Nicușor Dan in the second round of presidents ”.
The UDMR leader explained why, for his party, the independent candidate is the preferable option.
“Nicușor Dan would be a relief for the Hungarian community compared to George Simion ”, I say Hunor.
The prime minister, accused of “divided the vote of the Social Democrats”
Several PSD mayors and presidents of the county councils were criticized for the lack of involvement in the campaign and for the fact that some of the left -electorate votes were directed to Victor Ponta, according to Digi24.
“He divided the vote of the Social Democrats”, Marcel Ciolacu would have been accused in tense discussions on Sunday evening, from PSD.
The results of the first tour of the presidential election
We recall that, after counting all the votes expressed, the ranking of the first tour of the presidential elections is as follows:
– George Simion – 40.96 %
– Nicușor Dan – 20.99%
– Crin Antonescu 20.07 %
– Victor Ponta – 13.05%
– Elena Lasconi – 2.68 %
In the diaspora, Simion leads with 60.99 % of the votes, followed at a great distance from Nicușor Dan with 25.45 %. In 3rd place is Antonescu (6.74 %).
