Socialist Alternative Constantin Rotaru files presidential candidacy

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Socialist Alternative Party (PAS) Chair Constantin Rotaru filed his presidential candidacy at the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) on Tuesday.

'The first two presidents of Romania behaved like spectators, leaving all the greedy wolves to ruin the country just for comfortably sitting at Cotroceni [presidential palace], and the third head of state, self-style a player-president, placed himself from the very beginning outside the Constitution and ahead of those who wanted the rules in Romania,' Rotaru declared on the occasion, alluding to former presidents Ion Iliescu and Emil Constantinescu, and incumbent Traian Basescu, although technically the first president of Romania was communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

'We have an extremely confused Parliament in terms of passed legislation, a Judiciary accomplice to everything bad happening to Romania over the past 25 years,' he added. He also claimed there's no democracy in Romania.

'The fact that we all can choose is not enough. The Romanian people should have the possibility of dismissing the one they elect, if they don't fulfill their duties,' the PAS head declared.

According to BEC's 2009 data, Rotaru ran for president as the candidate of the Socialist Alliance Party and got over 43,000 votes.AGERPRES

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