Grindeanu says that the “stake” is not Bolojan's change. Asked about the importance of “stability”, the PSD leader offers an “extreme example”
PSD President Sorin Grindeanu spoke about the tensions in the governing coalition on Thursday and said that continuing “just for the sake of stability” may be more harmful to the overall situation “than taking a perhaps painful decision”.
Asked, on Thursday, in an interview given to the Antena 3 station in Brussels, if the stake is to change the prime minister, the PSD leader answered: “No, no, no, but that's not how the problem arises. The stake is for the Government to function better.”
“I have felt in these months that every time we try to do things inside the Government, which are not thought from a certain area, you have to come close to threatening to impose yourself”, added Sorin Grindeanu, indicating the tensions that existed in the coalition on the subject of the economic recovery measures proposed by the PSD and the state budget.
“Let me give an extreme example”
The Social Democrat said stability “matters” but a “painful” decision may be preferable to a scenario where “things are not going in the right direction”.
“Let me give an extreme example: The greatest stability is in Russia and Belarus. I don't want us to enter this line, but if you see and come to the conclusion that things are not going in the right direction, I think it's your duty to try to change them, to make them work”, stated Grindeanu.
Asked if there really were “margins” between the PNL and the AUR as he claimed, the PSD leader qualified his initial statement: “It was more the refusal to deny a future alliance between the PNL and the AUR, something of this type, what you hear from me and the PSD.”
“We will not make this majority with extremist parties,” he continued.
Sorin Grindeanu was then asked if he was challenging the PNL people to say the same thing.
“It's their job. We can decide for the PSD, not for the PNL and not for the USR, and I don't want to do that either. It's their job to manage their affairs internally as they see fit, but when you have a coalition government, the Government belongs to the coalition, the prime minister belongs to the coalition. You are the prime minister at this moment in this coalition, with a 45% share from the PSD inside it. That means you still have to accept left-wing policies,” he added PSD president.
