Nicușor Dan, strongly criticized from the USR for the appointments at the prosecutor's office: “Disappointing, regrettable” / “It will not only cost you, it will affect all of us”
USR criticized the appointments made by President Nicușor Dan to the heads of the large prosecutor's offices, at the proposal of the PSD Minister of Justice, Radu Marinescu, whom the formation accuses of “conducting a flawed process”. At the same time, former minister Stelian Ion said that the head of state made “a big mistake”, which “will affect us all”. “Disappointing, regrettable”, stated Cristian Ghinea.
In a reaction after the conference in which Nicușor Dan announced the appointments made at the proposal of the minister, USR said that it shares “the desire of the president to dynamize the activity of the prosecutor's offices, especially regarding large corruption and tax evasion files”, but “these appointments should have been accompanied by a process that unequivocally inspires trust and transparency”.
“We disagree with Mr. President's opinion that these appointments do not have the PSD mark on them. A process shows as much trust as the people who run it. Mr. Marinescu, PSD minister, led a flawed process that did not show confidence to many honest prosecutors in the system,” the party said in a press release.
USR said “the concerns of civil society are real”.
“The warnings came from honest prosecutors inside the system. They came from the CSM. They came from anti-corruption NGOs. They came from people who protested in the markets at key moments in the last decades and stood for an independent judiciary,” USR also stated.
Former USR Minister of Justice: “A slap to one's own electorate”
USR deputy Stelian Ion believes that the appointments made by Nicușor Dan “represent a big mistake”, which “will not only cost you”, but “will affect all of us”.
“To so easily ignore the negative opinions of the Section for Prosecutors of the SCM does not bode well. Such opinions have been ignored in the past and the results were not good. I do not claim that they should have absolute value, but in this case they were well-founded, and their number was not at all negligible. Also, the lack of opinions for Marius Voineag and Alex Florentsa is, in fact, equivalent to negative opinions. Practically, the president had more a lot of trust in the pesedist Radu Marinescu, close to Olguța Vasilescu, than in the CSM prosecutors”, said Stelian Ion, on Wednesday evening, in a post on Facebook.
He claims that Nicușor Dan gave “a slap to his own electorate” when he appointed “to the leadership of the General Prosecutor's Office and DIICOT, even in deputy positions, those who stopped the anti-corruption fight and important investigations — those who practiced a visible non-combat “from afar” in the prosecutor's offices they led”.
The USR deputy said that the new general prosecutor, Cristina Chiriac, “appeared disastrously at the interviews” and Marius Voineag “will dominate her — he is more skilled, has a different experience and a greater scope.”
“It did not follow from the president's explanations why, however, he appointed Voineag and Florence as deputies to PICCJ and DIICOT, especially in the context in which he repeatedly criticized them. The argument that, from the position of deputy, they cannot effectively run the institutions and cannot do enough harm is not convincing. The problem is not only not to do harm, but to do good. Or, there are numerous indications that these people practiced non-combat. They pulled the handbrake and did not what was needed”, Stelian Ion also declared.
Cristian Ghinea's message
After the president's press conference, Cristian Ghinea reacted on Facebook with a scathing post: “Disappointing, lamentable and stupid Nicușor Dan in appointing Voineag et co.”
In the post, Ghinea also put the hashtag “#UnSingurMandat”.
The appointments made by Nicușor Dan at the proposal of Minister Radu Marinescu
- Cristina Chiriac – Prosecutor General,
- Marius Voineag – deputy prosecutor of the general prosecutor,
- Viorel Cerbu – chief prosecutor of the DNA,
- Marius-Ionel Ştefan – Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the DNA,
- Marinela Mincă – deputy chief prosecutor of the DNA,
- Codrin-Horaţiu Miron – chief prosecutor of DIICOT,
- Alex Florența – deputy chief prosecutor of DIICOT.
