PM Ponta: While Basescu only claimed he will do something for the Republic of Moldova, I really did

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, the candidate of the electoral alliance of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the National Union for Romania's Progress (UNPR) and the Conservative Party (PC) in the presidential election, on Monday said in a televised show that, unlike Traian Basescu, who only claimed he wanted to help the Romanians of the Republic of Moldova, who only made promises, he really did help them.

Victor Ponta said at private broadcaster RTV that he supported the accession of the Republic of Moldova to the European Union and he would be glad if the future generations will, at one point, make the decision to reunify the state.

"I did many things for the Republic of Moldova, instead of just bragging that I will help this country and not do anything, as Traian Basescu did. I did — the gas pipeline, minibuses, cars for institutions, funds for kindergartens and schools (...) I believe that union on a short and medium term means the Republic of Moldova becoming a member of the European Union, so that the Pruth river will no longer be a border between Europe and the former Soviet world and union also means slowly but surely those across the Pruth river have almost the same living standards, salaries and pensions as us. After which, if at one point, in 10 years, maybe in 20, our children will want, on both sides, to have state reunification, I would surely be glad. But I said one thing in Chisinau and I will say it in Bucharest too — Romania is not the Soviet Union, we will not bring tanks across the Pruth to take something, we wish to help those there be like us citizens of the European Union and if at one point we may remove what was done by the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, all the better", said Victor Ponta at RTV. AGERPRES