Bolojan, about the villa where he lives: “I didn't enter this home through the window. Everything is fine”/ Traian Băsescu stayed in the villa on Gogol Street

Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said that he lives in the villa in Gogol street, which was previously received by Traian Băsescu, as a former president, specifying that he uses the house legally, after Băsescu was asked if he wanted to return to his former residence.

The prime minister moved into a villa on Gogol Street at the end of June, Gândul wrote on October 23. It is about the villa that Traian Băsescu received, after the end of his term as president, in accordance with the provisions of the law that regulates the rights of former heads of state.

Traian Băsescu had to leave the villa on Gogol following a March 2022 decision by the High Court of Cassation and Justice, which found that the former president was a collaborator of the Security as a political police. Following the final decision of the court, Băsescu lost the rights related to the quality of former head of state, including the right to use the house in Gogol Street.

Asked, on Digi24, if it is true that he lived illegally for four months in the villa on Gogol Street, Ilie Bolojan answered: “I did not stay illegally, as prime minister you have the right to a home provided by the state. I just sleep there.”

Bolojan said that initially, after moving to Bucharest, he lived on the ground floor of a house. Then he was told that this was a security risk, as the house had windows to the street, so he moved to the villa on Gogol Street.

“Meanwhile, I found out that Traian Băsescu had lived there, who regained his rights as president,” said Bolojan. He asked the RA-APPS to speak to the former president if he wishes to return to the villa.

“He opted for another location. Then I stayed there and it practically closed (…) The Prime Minister has the right to a home, I did not enter this home through the window. Everything is fine,” Bolojan said.

How Băsescu repossessed his protocol residence

On July 1, 2025, the Constitutional Court decided that the legislative amendment by which certain benefits were withdrawn from the former president Traian Băsescu is contrary to the Constitution. Thus, following the decision of the CCR, Traian Băsescu receives back the benefits, including the right to a protocol home.

On the agenda of the Government meeting on August 8 was a draft Decision by which former president Traian Băsescu would have received back a house of protocol. However, the decision was postponed by the prime minister, without any debate, Executive sources told HotNews.

The government announced that the project is not on the agenda of the approved normative acts, without further clarification. “Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan removed the normative act from the agenda, without any discussion or debate. Simply, in a hurry, it was said that that point is being postponed,” government sources told HotNews.

The draft decision that was postponed provides for the change of destination of an RA-APPS building in Emile Zola Street in Sector 1 of the Capital from protocol housing to official residence.

“The SGG informed us that, in application of the legal provisions, the former president Traian Basescu requested RA-APPS to assign a home as a former head of state”, stated a representative of the Government.

However, the government decision by which Traian Băsescu receives a home from the state was adopted on August 21. The former president will have an apartment in an apartment block, not a villa, stated the spokeswoman of the Executive, Ioana Dogioiu, in the press statements made at the end of the government meeting.

Traian Băsescu was the one who asked to be granted an apartment, not a villa, explained Dogioiu.

“The government decision was adopted by which a residence is assigned to President Traian Băsescu. At the request of his lordship, it was not a villa, but an apartment in a housing block. Also at his request, the government decision has a classified regime”, declared the government spokeswoman.

Ioana Dogioiu motivated the decision to keep the document secret by the fact that Băsescu “does not want the address to be public”.