On Saturday, Elena Udrea viciously attacked Laura Codruța Kovesi, who criticized President Nicușor Dan on the matter of appointments to the Prosecutor's Office. Udrea accuses Kovesi of “tupeu” and claims that former president Traian Băsescu appointed her to the positions of general prosecutor and chief prosecutor at the DNA “based on criteria not of competence, but of positive discrimination”, namely because she was a woman and young.
Elena Udrea's reaction comes after Laura Codruța Kovesi, currently the head of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, stated in an interview that President Nicușor Dan discouraged, through his statements, the submission of several candidacies for the head of public prosecutor's offices in Romania.
“I ended up being on Nicușor Dan's side!”, writes Elena Udrea in a post on Facebook. “Regarding Kovesi's stupidity to mock his Olympic performances and send him to rest, because he allowed himself to state that in her time, DNA committed abuses, something already proven by dozens of decisions of courts in Romania, other European countries and ECHR, and by Reports containing these abuses, approved by official institutions”, she continues.
“To put it this way, the fact that you were an international Olympian in mathematics, the fact that you were voted by 6,168,642 Romanians, is more important and infinitely better than being professionally mediocre and ending up as the Prosecutor General of Romania, or the Chief Prosecutor of the DNA, just because Traian Băsescu appointed you based on criteria not of competence, but of positive discrimination: a woman, young and, a scumbag, because you were a volleyball (basketball) player, so he assumed that you have team spirit and can be a good boss for the prosecutors!!!”, claims Elena Udrea.
“And since it is so, no one can contradict me!” she concludes.
Former Minister of Regional Development and Tourism, between 2008-2012, Elena Udrea was investigated in several corruption cases and fled the country in 2018.
In the “Gala Bute” case, she received a 6-year prison sentence and was finally incarcerated in June 2022 after being extradited from Bulgaria. She was paroled last July after serving 3 years and 10 months of her sentence.
Elena Udrea accused on numerous occasions that when she was investigated for corruption, abuses were committed in the Judiciary and spoke of an “occult system” of which both the former head of the DNA Laura Codruța Kovesi and the former first deputy of the SRI Florian Coldea would have been part.
