Drula rejects the option of replacing Moșteanu at the Ministry of Defense, if he loses the elections at the Capital City Hall: “It's completely out of the question”
Cătălin Drula, USR. Photo: Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
USR's candidate for the Capital City Hall, Cătălin Drula, was asked on Wednesday evening, on Digi24, what he will do if he loses the elections, in the context where USR must appoint a Minister of Defense after the resignation of Ionuț Moșteanu.
“I'm entering this competition to win it and I'm asking the people of Bucharest to trust them and choose who they think is the best candidate on December 7. Obviously, any result is possible. I'm a committed man, I always have been, but I'm entering here to win. (…)
No, I will not be the Minister of Defense. Besides, I don't know if my colleagues, I haven't been part of the USR leadership for a year and a half, will make the appointment before the elections or after. For now, he is an interim provided by Mr. Miruță, but I tell you with all firmness that he is excluded. I will not be in this Government, nor will I be the Minister of Defense. No”, said Cătălin Drula.
The scandal related to Ionuț Moșteanu's CV
At the end of November, Ionuț Moșteanu resigned from the position of Minister of Defense, following a scandal caused by false data entered in his CV.
In the first public positions he held, adviser to the Ministry of Transport and member of several CAs, the Athenaeum faculty appears in Ionuț Moșteanu's CV, while now Bioterra appears, writes Libertatea. Atheneum denied having the current Minister of Defense as a student.
Moșteanu held, in 2015-2016, the position of advisor to the minister in the Ministry of Transport and member of the CA of some state companies, positions that required, according to the law at the time, higher education.
The minister then stated in his CV that he studied Management, between 1996 and 2000, at the Athenaeum private university in Bucharest. As can be seen from this CV, the diploma from the Athenaeum was the only university diploma that Moşteanu held during that period.
In a response to Libertatea, the Athenaeum University denied that Moșteanu was a student and that the Management specialization was not active in those years, being authorized only in 2020. The CV in which the Athenaeum University was mentioned was deleted from the Tarom website, in the part that contained the presentation of Moșteanu, as a member of the Board of Directors.
