“Anonymously, an adviser to the president says what we all know who know Mr. Dan and we are not fooled by him or his image”, writes the activist and writer Valeriu Nicolae, after the article in HotNews about “one of the main weaknesses of Nicușor Dan, told by someone close to him”.
In a comment on Facebook, Valeriu Nicușor writes about Dan Nicușor that “he is a catastrophic manager incapable of building teams and trusting the people he works with. A man obsessed with control and micromanagement. A man who encourages pushovers and seeks their unconditional loyalty. Honest, intelligent, hardworking”.
He makes this enumeration based on the article published in HotNews, in which several of those close to the president talk about the relationship with him. “You know how it is with us, slower, like that,” said one man in the presidential administration, who asked not to be named. Other examples are given.
In his message, Valeriu Nicolae criticizes the advisers for speaking “anonymously”, stating that the assumption “with first and last name” can “change something for the better”, otherwise, “it will only increase the president's paranoia”.
Discussions between journalists and sources are an international practice, encouraged and protected by European legislation, including that of whistleblowers. The principle of the confidential source starts from the reality that people are more willing to speak and reveal things that are inconvenient to those elected or appointed to positions of power when they are protected.
Valeriu Nicolae concludes with an exhortation similar to the one made by Laura Codruța Kovesi: “Nicușor Dan seems very, very tired. It would be a good time to go to bed. Because who knows, maybe when he wakes up he will be able to understand that he is the president of a country and not the administrator of the staircase of the Romania block, faces, honest”.
