Titus Corlățean, withdrawn from the race for the head of the PSD: “The party, practically, has no future”

The PSD was wrong because it did not address the young people and a changing society, considers Senator Tituș Corlățean, who withdrew from the race for the position of president of the party. Called, on Wednesday, by Sorin Grindeanu to a discussion to clarify his position in the party, Corlățean spoke about the PSD mistakes, without explaining whether or not he will remain in the party.

On Wednesday, at the exit of Sorin Grindeanu's office, Titus Corlățean was asked whether or not he will stay in the PSD, after announcing that he is withdrawing from the race for the head of the party, through an ambiguous message. He did not clarify, however, whether he will continue to be a member of the Social Democratic Party.

“The things that people who have a number of years in the party are discussing and we have accepted the invitation to have a discussion, that we are still in this party. But this is a discussion that remains between us and in which things are called,” Corlățean told the discussion with the interim leader of the PSD.

Asked how he sees the change of the PSD status by eliminating the word “progressive” and introducing the attachment to the “democratic, national, religious, traditional and cultural values ​​of the Romanian people”, Corlățean said that he is no longer interested in the things that are no longer part and that the PSD in Romania cannot be compared to those in Norway or Sweden.

“As things are today, the PSD practically has no future”

He said that “a strategic stake” is the return of the PSD to what it was, and now the party should be addressed to a much broader electorate category, the Gold Electorate:

“The strategic stakes and the strategic battle in the years that will follow is not a political battle between USR or PNL with gold, because their electorates are not work, but between PSD and gold. The strategic stake of Romania is that the PSD is not small and to let someone else dominate the Romanian political scene, but the PSD is a strong one.”

He says that the Social Democrats were wrong because they did not address a changing society and young people.

“From the data I have, for example, somewhere in 4% of young people under 35 would vote today PSD. As things are today, the PSD has no future,” said the PSD senator.

Asked if after the leadership of Liviu Dragnea, Adrian Năstase or Marcel Ciolacu, Sorin Grindeanu is the rescue of the party, Corlățean said that a “advisory council” of the former leaders would be needed to discuss the future and the present of the party:

“PSD, unfortunately, has not had the intelligence so far to bring together imperfect people in a form, perhaps, by the advisory council from the former PSD leaders. It had no intelligence to bring the cumulative wisdom and experience over the years.”

Titus Corlățean was the only social-democrat who intended to counter Sorin Grindeanu for the position of party president, at the PSD Congress on November 7.