Dominic Fritz, asked about a USR-PNL governing solution: “If the PSD fails to carry out its plan, we will certainly be responsible”
“We can no longer sacrifice the Romanians' hopes that something will change on the altar of stability,” the USR leader declared on Thursday evening, saying that both his party and the PNL are determined not to govern with the PSD.
In an intervention on Thursday evening at Digi24, Dominic Fritz was asked if USR and PNL will come up with a governing solution if PSD fails.
He did not rule out the scenario, but stated that currently “we are not there”, and “now it is the PSD's responsibility to tell us what they want to do with this new majority together with the AUR in Parliament”.
“First of all, PNL and USR today are in the ministries, in the Government, they work, they make sure that this country remains led by someone, they didn't desert like those from the PSD did, and that's what they will do until the day when we have a new Government. If the PSD does not manage to carry out their plan, which I don't know since when they had, then we will certainly be responsible and surely then together we will decide what is the next step for Romania”, declared Dominic Fritz.
What did he say about the pact with PNL
The leader of the USR explained that the cooperation pact with the PNL is meant to give the two parties “a much greater force than if each fought alone and looked only at their own interest.”
“We governed well together (…). Now the common interest, not only of the two parties, but the common interest of all Romanians, who want something to finally change in this country, to finally end this unseen power in all state institutions, this is precisely the direction we must take now”, Dominic Fritz added.
He reiterated that USR and PNL exclude a new government alongside PSD.
“The solution they keep saying (those from the PSD, no), “let's go back to government!”, no longer works. Here, both the PNL and USR are extremely clear (…). We can no longer sacrifice the Romanians' hopes that something will change on the altar of stability”, emphasized the USR president.
Discussions between the leaders of the broken coalition and Nicușor Dan
Dominic Fritz was the first leader from the former governing coalition to participate in the informal consultations convened by Nicușor Dan after the fall of the Bolojan Government. In the Digi24 intervention, the USR leader said that he told the president that he does not think that a government with the PSD is still possible.
Kelemen Hunor also went to Cotroceni on Thursday morning and Ilie Bolojan on Thursday evening, according to HotNews sources.
The Bolojan government was dismissed on Tuesday by the PSD-AUR motion of no confidence, approximately two weeks after the social democrats officially decided to withdraw their support for the liberal prime minister.
After the meeting called by the USR following the vote in Parliament, Dominic Fritz announced that the party still supports the liberal Ilie Bolojan and that the mandate with which he will go to the consultations in Cotroceni is that “we will not be able to return to the negotiation table with the PSD. And two: we will tell him that we will coordinate very closely with the PNL to evaluate future options”.
In an interview given to Observator, on Wednesday evening, one day after the censure motion, Ilie Bolojan stated that the PSD leaders bear “total responsibility for this crisis” and that they have “two possibilities”: either to come up with a governing solution, or to say that they don't have one and let others.
On Wednesday, in a statement at the Parliament, the general secretary of the PSD, Claudiu Manda, had for his part spoken about two options for the party: resuming the coalition without Bolojan or going into the opposition of the PSD.
UDMR wants to restore the coalition
The first option of the UDMR is to restore the former coalition, reiterated Kelemen Hunor, on Thursday, in an interview given to PRO TV News after the discussion he had this morning with the president Nicușor Dan.
“Of course, we need a man who can be accepted by everyone, by the PNL, and by the PSD, and by us, and by those from the USR, and probably that man cannot come either from the PSD or from the PNL, because then the problem arises for the other party how to accept after this affair (…). It was a political affair, you brought down a government without putting anything in place, without having a solution”, declared the leader of the UDMR, Kelemen Hunor.
