The winner of the first round of the presidential elections, Calin Georgescu, avoids answering the press: “You have all the answers”
Romanian Prime Minister, Social Democrat Marcel Ciolacu, encouraged his compatriots on Sunday to vote in the parliamentary elections with an eye on Europe and NATO to avoid falling into “chaos”, after the success of ultra-nationalist and Eurosceptic proposals in the last presidential elections.
“I voted for Romania to remain in the Schengen area, in the European Union and in NATO. I believe that today Romanians can choose between stability and chaos,” Ciolacu said on Sunday after exercising his right to vote.
“I think that today is a very important day for all of us Romanians to continue our journey through Europe and the North Atlantic. It is the most important thing we have to choose today,” he said as he left his polling station in Buzau.
This was the opinion of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, who after voting in Bucharest, celebrated that in previous elections, Romanians had voted for the “Euro-Atlantic path.”
“We are well integrated into the European Union, we are well positioned and we are very respected in NATO. But for this to continue, we have to vote in this way. In conclusion, please vote. I voted for a European Romania,” he said.
For her part, presidential candidate Elena Lasconi said she would vote for the freedom of Romania. “We will not kneel, we will remain free, we will think freely,” said the conservative leader, reports the daily ‘Adevarul’.
On the other hand, his rival in the second round of the elections, Calin Georgescu, has chosen not to answer questions from the press. “You have all the answers,” he said, visibly upset.
“I have seen that you are very angry with me for not answering questions. Yes, I do not accept questions and I will not do so now either (…) Having overcome this, I want to tell you that I want to be a president who puts his people, his country, first. That is not negotiable,” said Georgescu.
Romanians vote this Sunday in parliamentary elections marked by the possible annulment of the results of the first round of the presidential elections last week, as well as by the rise of the extreme right after the surprising victory in those elections of Calin Georgescu, a nationalist candidate considered pro-Russian and whose campaign has been questioned for lack of transparency.
This time, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) is not the favourite, according to polls, which place it as the second most voted force, with 21.4 percent of votes, although not far behind the first, the Eurosceptic and conservative Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), which would obtain 22.4 percent.
