Nicușor Dan, from Washington: The problem of the legitimacy of the Romanian administration no longer exists in the United States
Nicusor Dan during the speech at the Washington Peace Council meeting. Photo Credit: White House
Present in Washington for the first meeting of the Peace Council initiated by Donald Trump, Nicușor Dan declared that the legitimacy of the Romanian administration is no longer in doubt in the United States.
“We are here in Washington, I even talked earlier with Mr. Ambassador, who accompanies all Romanian officials to various meetings, at different levels, with structures of the American administration. No one has raised this topic. In the report you are talking about, there is no fight between the United States and Romania. It is a tension between the United States and Europe on the regulation of the giants in the area of social networks. Yes, there is a tension, and then Romania was given as an example, but the issue of the legitimacy of the administration in Romania it no longer exists in the United States”, said Dan, Thursday evening, on Digi 24, quoted by News.ro.
Asked if the fact that Donald Trump rightfully presented him as the “prime minister of Romania” on Thursday at the Council meeting can be interpreted as not recognizing him as the country's head of state, Dan replied that “it still happens” that the leader of the White House makes mistakes due to the large number of people he talks to.
“You see, the president of the United States is dealing with, I don't know, 120-150 countries at once. Yes, and in some countries the president is more important. In other countries, the prime minister is more important. This kind of error still happens,” Dan said, quoted by the news television website.
The Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives has accused the European Commission of interfering in the elections of several European countries, including Romania, starting in 2023, claiming that it pressured online platforms to censor political speech.
“It seems that interference in elections is something common for the European Commission. Ahead of at least eight elections in six European countries, starting from 2023, the Commission met with representatives of platforms to pressure them to censor political speech in the days before the vote,” the Legal Commission of the House of Representatives claimed, in a post on the X network, on February 4.
According to the same source, we are talking about elections in Ireland (2024 and 2025), France (2024), the Netherlands (2023 and 2025), Slovakia (2023), Romania (2024) and Moldova (2024).
