Bucharest Mayor Firea: We're quite enough to count, we'll come with mandate to PSD's CExN

The signatories of an open letter through which the "immediate resignation" of Liviu Dragnea from the positions of PSD (Social Democratic Party, main at rule, ed. n.) leader and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, is demanded, do not want to undermine the party, but the continuation of the projects promised in the electoral campaign, the only problem being that "Dragnea has grabbed the party in his own name", on Wednesday said the Bucharest General Mayor Gabriela Firea, Vice President of PSD, stressing that the ones involved in this demarche are more than a few to count and will come with a mandate to this Friday's CExN (National Executive Committee, ed. n.) meeting.

"We are enough presidents of county councils, members of the Executive Committee who are adhering to the principles and values expressed in this document, but the decision was that for this stage, we are the three persons who publicly assume the contents of this joint declaration on the state of PSD. We are not seeking the PSD's undermining, as they say these days. I wish to draw attention that PSD cannot be led arbitrarily by one single person, as happens, at least in the last year, and what I have voiced at the Neptun Executive Committee's meeting was not a singular situation. (...) We do not want to tear the party apart, we say that it is not normal for a political formation that has received the Romanians' vote to run the country in a good way, to be stalled and crushed as public perception because certain measures are taken that are not the fruit and the outcome of consultations," Gabriela Firea said in a phone call to the private Digi 24 TV broadcaster.

She denounced "a narrow group of persons - the Scrovistea group" that is making the decisions in the name of the PSD leadership, outside the party's leading forums.

"It is an increasingly select group of people - we call it the Scrovistea group - who get together, make important decisions for the country and not for a group of persons, some decisions being at issue, and some of which simply drawing a negative public opinion, and not only on the PSD members' behalf, but on behalf of all Romanians. We further wish to have stability at rule, we also wish to see an improving governance, we wish an enhanced PSD-ALDE majority coalition in Parliament, the only problem we find abnormal to tolerate because it harms not only the party but also the governing with direct effects upon the Romanians, is the very person of Mr. Dragnea, who took the party for granted in his own name and is leading it in a wrong direction so many times," the City Mayor asserted.

In the Vice President's opinion, "Dragnea rushed" the summoning of the Executive Committee, after the letter of the three PSD leaders surfaced in the media.

"I find that Mr. Dragnea had no intention to convene the CexN this week, instead he rushed it because he noticed that what he had been mocking in the past days, namely a letter allegedly lost somewhere, minimizing this extremely serious demarche, already joined by our colleagues in the CExN enough not to be ignored any more. We'll show up at the CExN with a clear mandate that will decide one way or another. We were voted by the Romanians to get busy with their prosperity and our country's image abroad, to never put it in an unpleasant picture and a delicate situation and moreover to continue all that has been done at rule," Gabriela Firea detailed.

She made an appeal to the PSD Chair to observe the decisions that are to be made on Friday at the CexN reunion.

The PSD Vice President added that she first tried to "amicably" solve the issues related to Bucharest in her talks with Liviu Dragnea. He instead "kicked off a raging campaign for her to be denigrated via his counselors."

Gabriela Firea reasserted she doesn't want "under no circumstances" to take over the PSD leadership, not even interim, nor will she run next year at the party's congress.AGERPRES(RO - author: Catalina Matei, editor: Florin Marin; EN - author: Maria Voican, editor: Simona Iacob)