I chose order, not chaos, said Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Çolacu, who voted in the first round of the presidential elections, accompanied by the mayor of Sector 4, Daniel Baluta. The moment was broadcast live online, BTA reports.
“We cannot afford a political crisis at this moment, because this will lead to chaos, to insolvency. I believe that Romania must have a president who already has a parliamentary majority in order to be able to propose reforms and implement the program he is running with. Only one candidate had such a program for the country“, the prime minister commented.
He added that he voted for Romania to move forward together with its EU and NATO partners. Marcel Ciolacu also expressed his satisfaction with the high voter turnout of Romanians abroad.
"Romanians will vote as they know best and I am glad that we have such a large number of Romanians who voted in the diaspora and I am firmly convinced that it will be even greater with Romanians voting in Romania. Romanians really have a choice for a moment of order and I think that is what we are all waiting for”, the prime minister stressed.
Asked what he conveyed to James Traynor, head of the American delegation who is in Bucharest to observe the presidential elections, Marcel Ciolacu replied, "that the elections in Romania will be organized properly, like all the elections organized for 35 years. There were no major problems in the last elections and there will be no major problems now."
The Prime Minister stressed that the participation of the executive branch in organizing the elections is exclusively administrative.
For the first time in the country's post-communist history, the largest party - the Social Democratic Party (SDP) - does not have its own candidate in the elections. Marcel Ciolacu - the only SDP candidate so far who failed to reach the runoff in last year's elections, refused to rejoin the race.