Behind the scenes of the PNL meeting, held in parallel with the PSD public event. Bolojan, to his colleagues: “I don't want to end my career for the PSD”
While the PSD referendum was live on the party's social media pages, the liberals held a closed-door meeting to determine their strategy. The result of the vote was an expected one: 97.7% of the voters decided that the PSD must withdraw its political support for Prime Minister Bolojan.
In the meeting at the party's headquarters in Modrogan, all participants again expressed their support for Ilie Bolojan, participants in the meeting told HotNews.
Sources from the PNL say that Bolojan's main challenger from the party, Hubert Thuma, announced his “total” support for the prime minister in today's meeting.
“Everything based on the sources was different from what I was deciding”
On the other hand, Prime Minister Bolojan made an analysis of the government together with the PSD. He said that, in the first months, the coalition worked “acceptably”, but the PSD had “delaying behavior, obstructing things that didn't sound good”.
“There were frequent situations in which the coalition decided by mutual agreement, without scandal, but everything that came from the sources was totally different,” Bolojan told his colleagues, according to information obtained by HotNews
He said that the social democrats started the attacks in the fall: “Probably, based on the polls, which show that the PSD is no longer at the level it had at the time of the elections,” the prime minister said, according to several liberal sources.
At the same time, according to the participants of the meeting, the prime minister thanked his colleagues for not giving replies to those from the PSD.
“The so-called statesmen from the PSD are working to dynamit the state”
The Prime Minister also drew some lines regarding both communication and PNL strategy. “We condemn the action of the PSD, because it is irresponsible, and the so-called statesmen from the PSD are working to dynamit the state,” said Bolojan, according to liberal sources.
“I don't have a problem ending my political career for the PNL and for this country, but I don't want to end it for the PSD, the way it behaves,” the prime minister also said in the PNL meeting, according to several participants in the meeting.
He also said that the Government will function in an interim state, for a period, and then “it will be at the stage where it will have to be validated”.
“If we only accept the payment bill, as the PSD wants, and they screw up, that will not be good. I think we can give the direction not to accept being a PSD annex,” the prime minister also said in the meeting, according to HotNews sources.
Ciprian Ciucu: “PSD dug its own hole and wants to take us too”
The PNL leader told the Liberals' meeting that the PSD was “going to the head” and said he preferred to be “a major party in an alliance with smaller parties, rather than being the PSD key”.
He told his colleagues that if Bolojan didn't come to lead the PNL, then there was a risk that the liberals would get less percentages than the USR in the parliamentary elections, said sources participating in the meeting.
Ciucu also said that at this moment the PNL has only two options: to “find the way of the liberals” or to accept the role of the second party.
