PER's Branza: Romania today looks like a broken family

Presidential candidate of the Romanian Green Party (PER) William Branza said Saturday in Targu-Jiu, southern Romania, that Romania today looks like a broken family, given that very many Romanians have moved out overseas and left their families behind.

'Romania's picture today is: more than three million Romanian nationals abroad and more than two million families left behind at home. Romania today looks like a broken family. The first thing I would change if I became the president of Romania would be cutting through red tape. It is unacceptable for a county, a city so much industrialised as this, to pay wages of just RON 800. This place should be an oasis of prosperity for the money the city of Targu-Jiu contributes to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). I dealt with some of the Targu-Jiu children when I worked for four years in Italy with the county's inhabitants. Someone was encouraging me saying that I can win 40 per cent of the vote in the Gorj Couty. I believe in my chance in Targu-Jiu, because I have returned home after working with thousands of Gorj people in Italy and carried through projects. Some of them have also returned home and some of their families recognise me,' said Branza.

The PER candidate went to the Central Square of Targu-Jiu to talk to local producers, saying that the people he met told him they do not have jobs.

'I want to extend to the Gorj people a message of confidence and a message that if they vote for William Branza they will get a sure programme and they will see Romania in the future. (...) I have met here a quite serious problem regarding jobs. People say they have no jobs and that existing jobs are poorly paid,' said Branza. AGERPRES