Constantin Toma, Mayor of Buzău: "Right now, the PSD is set on self-destruction"

In addition to negotiations at the Cotroceni Palace, with President Nicuşor Dan, but also with the other pro-European parties in Parliament, the interim president of the PSD, Sorin Grindeanu, must also deal with the existing dissensions in the party that surfaced immediately after the resignation of Marcel Ciolacu. One of the challengers of the current PSD leadership team is Constantin Toma, the mayor of Buzău, who is requesting that all social-democratic leaders take a step back at the upcoming congress, stating that at this moment the party is "set on self-destruction". Constantin Toma made the request at the end of the Buzău Local Municipal Council meeting, which took place yesterday, and stated that several social-democratic aldermen want the PSD to enter government and not remain in opposition, as some leaders around interim president Sorin Grindeanu want.

The mayor of Buzău declared: "PSD must enter the government, this is mandatory. I think the opinion has also changed at the leadership level, because I am being called by many people, I am talking about mayors in Romania who agree with my position. Get to work and offer support for reform, because this PSD negotiating team is the best team in Romania. The PSD leadership is taught to negotiate extraordinarily well, they are not very good at reforms. The team is the former and current PSD leadership, minus Mr. Marcel Ciolacu. The only option for prime minister is Ilie Bolojan. Basically, this tandem was voted for, the current president Mr. Nicuşor Dan has said many times that he wants to make a tandem, the president and Ilie Bolojan prime minister, to lead the country. PSD currently has a credibility problem, it has lost many of its voters, who went to AUR or Victor Ponta and I hope the current leadership at the next congress will take a step back and leave room for another team to take over in order to continue to exist, because at this moment the PSD is set on self-destruction".

Constantin Toma added that the former prime minister and president of the PSD, Marcel Ciolacu, no longer has any political future. The mayor specified: "From my point of view, he no longer has any future in Romanian politics. Everyone has a credibility problem. I have a credibility problem too. When you lose four elections in a row, you have to take several steps back, not just one."

We recall that the mayor of Buzău, Constantin Toma, participated in the official inauguration ceremony of the new president of Romania, Nicuşor Dan, whom he supported in the second round of the presidential elections, which took place on May 18.