Independent candidate Macovei: Ponta should resign post and withdraw presidential bid

Victor Pona must resign this moment from the office of Prime Minister and withdraw his candidacy for Romania's president, says independent candidate Monica Macovei, in a press release remitted on Tuesday to AGERPRES.

"After resignation and withdrawal, Ponta must explain to the people why he infringed the Constitution and lied so many years. According to the Constitution, Ponta, as a prosecutor, was not allowed to be a SIE [Foreign Intelligence Service] officer, the two posts being incompatible. The incompatibility is provided for in art. 132, paragraph 2 of the Constitution now in force and in art. 131, paragraph 2 of the Constitution in force between 1991 and 2003. Ponta and those in SIE who have recruited Ponta by infringing the constitution must answer", Macovei shows.

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