“Beneficial for all Romanian sport”

At that time, Victor Ponta was the prime minister of Romania and, together with Liviu Dragnea, he attended meetings with club presidents to support Gino Iorgulescu.

After 12 years, Iorgulescu confirmed the direct involvement of the then political leaders in the overthrow of Dumitru Dragomir. The head of the LPF predicted that the stake of the negotiation was an extremely important fiscal law for the survival of the clubs.

Gino Iorgulescu shows his cards, after 12 years since he defeated Dumitru Dragomir

Iorgulescu spoke about the decisive meeting. The leaders of the PSD at the time, Ponta and Dragnea, guaranteed compliance with the sports contracts, through which the fees paid by the clubs were reduced.

“I told you that I had and signed from 15 presidents and they returned it to me politically. What did I do with Ponta? I also went to a meeting and called Ponta and Liviu Dragnea.

I have conveyed to the club presidents that they are bringing the two politicians and I guarantee that we do sports activity contracts for football. Let there be less tax.

Finally, they came and told the club presidents: «We have dealt with Gino and we agree to make a lower tax for sports activity contracts. It is for the good and the support of sport». The next day, they voted for me.

But the law with sports activity contracts was beneficial for all Romanian sports, not just for football. That's how we negotiated. You couldn't do it just for football, you do it for all sports, normally”, said Gino Iorgulescu, for iamsport.ro.

Gino Iorgulescu beat Dragomir with 4 votes: “These whores I helped didn't vote”

Gino Iorgulescu became LPF president on November 14, 2013, after 17 years in which Dumitru Dragomir led the Professional Football League. The vote was 11-7.

“They didn't vote for these whores that I helped all these years. I will tell you what and how later. There are some who swore on the Bible and gave it away. I would rather die than win the League with Gigi Becali's vote. He never helped me, he just ate shit!”, thundered Dragomir, after learning the final result.

Yes, together with Liviu Dragnea, then I was prime minister, he was deputy prime minister, we met Gino Iorgulescu, with whom we have always been friends. You know very well that since FC Național we have seen each other less

It was obvious that we supported him, I supported Gino Iorgulescu, but it was no secret.

Mythical Dragomir is right! How can I say, I'm sorry… If he forgives me, fine, if he doesn't, I admit it. He's not right about the files, I've never interfered, on the contrary. I've had cases too and I don't do that kind of thing. But in connection with the elections, I was there, at the table.

Of course, the other presidents, when they saw that Gino Iorgulescu was sitting next to his friend, the prime minister, also did their calculations. Now what can I say? That I didn't influence them? You know them, you know them better than I do.

– Victor Pontain March 2025, at “Friends of Ovidiu”