Nicusor Dan meets again on Monday with the leaders of the pro-European parties. On the discussion table, the SAFE and PNRR programs. “I will continue to exercise my role as a mediator”
Nicușor Dan meets again, on Monday, with the leaders of the pro-European parties, in a new round of consultations at the Cotroceni Palace, on the subject of the implementation of the SAFE and PNRR programs, in the context of the political crisis triggered in the governing coalition.
New discussions at Cotroceni. PHOTO: Inquam/Octav Ganea
On Monday, April 27, at the Cotroceni Palace, new consultations of President Nicusor Dan with the leaders of the pro-European parties will take place, for a discussion focused on the implementation of projects considered essential for Romania, namely the SAFE program and the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The announcement was made on Sunday by the Presidential Administration, which specified that the leaders of the Social Democratic Party, the National Liberal Party, the Save Romania Union, the Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania, as well as the representative of the Parliamentary Group of National Minorities will participate in the meeting.
According to the cited source, the main theme of the consultations is the status and continuation of the implementation of major programs for Romania, namely SAFE and PNRR, at a time when the domestic political scene is going through a period of instability.
“I will continue to exercise my role as a mediator. As such, I invited, on Monday, the leaders of the four pro-European political parties and the leader of the parliamentary group of national minorities, to have a technical and applied discussion about the major programs for Romania, such as SAFE and PNRR”, Nicușor Dan sent in a message published on Facebook on Saturday.
The new meeting takes place after the head of state signed the resignations of the PSD ministers and the documents by which the interim ministers were appointed, following the departure of the social democrats from the government and the withdrawal of support for Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan.
In an attempt to limit the effects of this political crisis, Nicușor Dan organized a first round of consultations with the coalition parties last Wednesday. At the end of that meeting, the president conveyed that the participating parties reaffirmed their commitment to Romania's pro-Western direction and their willingness to collaborate on important state projects.
“Beyond this political crisis, we must tell and assure Romanians that we have state institutions that are functioning. We are a functional state, with a difference of opinion at the political level. The pro-Western direction of Romania is not in question. Each of the parties that came today and the national minorities expressly stated that they exclude a government with anti-Western forces, straight AUR, and each of them expressed their willingness to cooperate especially, particularly, on the essential projects on which Romania has in the immediate period, OECD, SAFE, PNRR. So, calm down and we will get through this!” declared the head of state after the previous consultations.
Through the new round of discussions in Cotroceni, the president is trying to maintain the dialogue between the parties that support Romania's current external orientation and to avoid the blocking of some important projects in a period marked by uncertainty and increasingly heightened political tensions.
