Vosganian resigns from National Liberal Party

Photo credit: (c) Radu TUTA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Senator Varujan Vosganian on Friday announced his resignation from the National Liberal Party (PNL).

Photo credit: (c) Radu TUTA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

''As an comradely response to your requests, please hereby receive my resignation from the new PNL," Vosganian wrote on his blog, addressing the PNL leadership.

Both PNL co-chairpersons Alina Gorghiu and Vasile Blaga had asked Vosganan to resign, with Gorghiu stressing that had he not followed suit, she would have proposed that he be expelled from the party.

In a letter to the Liberal Senators, Alina Gorghiu also said that she would be present at the meeting of the parliamentary group of the Liberal Senators this Monday, where they would jointly determine ways to prevent political accidents like the one on February 12 from happening again.

Gorghiu also stressed that the refusal to approve the commencement of Senator Vosganian's prosecution cannot remain without consequences, because there's the risk that PNL loses the confidence of the people who on November 16 were at the side of the party and of then presidential hopeful Klaus Iohannis.

In this context, the Liberal leader mentions that this reality obliges PNL to show even higher accountability and wisdom.

In a secret ballot on February 12, the Senators rejected 71 to 57 plus 5 annulled votes the request anticorruption prosecutors referred to the Upper House via Prosecutor-general Tiberiu Nitu to approve the lifting of the immunity of current Senator and former Economy Minister Varujan Vosganian, who faces charges in the Romgaz case. AGERPRES

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