Mircea Geoana
Ponta claims conflict with Geoana stems from naming Aurescu as foreign minister instead of him
Prime Minister Victor Ponta considers the naming of Bogdan Aurescu as Foreign Minister led to the conflict with Mircea Geoana, the latter purportedly offering to support Ponta from this position.
Photo credit: (c) Mihai POZIUMSCHI / AGERPRES PHOTO
PM Ponta: Vote abroad must be organized, as at home, by Permanent Electoral Authority
Prime Minister Victor Ponta believes the solution to the vote abroad, in the future, is represented by organizing the voting process as it is organized at home, by the Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP) and not by the Government.
Photo credit: (c) Silviu MATEI / AGERPRES PHOTO
PSD's Dragnea on Geoana's statement: Grave, irresponsible; Iliescu: A frivolous game
The executive chairman of the Social Democrat Party (PSD, main in ruling coalition), Liviu Dragnea has commented on Thursday night the statements by senator Mircea Geoana in reference to the necessity of a new government, saying they are 'grave and irresponsible.'
Senator Geoana, after meeting Victoria Nuland: US Administration decision on Romania depends on her opinion
Former Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana at the US Embassy headquarters on Wednesday met US Department of State Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, with whom he talked about the political evolution in Romania, but also about 'the chance for Romania to play an extremely important role both from a strategic and from an economic stand in the region.'
PM Ponta: Royalty system should be agreed upon for at least 10 years by political consensus
Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Thursday said that Romania's royalty system is a governmental priority, but its modification should be the outcome of a political consensus that would secure long-term predictability for big energy investors.
Geoana: You may consider my position of Prime Minister's High Representative ended
Senator Mircea Geoana said on Friday his position of the Prime Minister's High Representative 'has ended'.
Ponta: PSD to have political future, if clearly proving nobody is above law
The Social Democrat Party (PSD) will have a political future inasmuch as it clearly proves that nobody is protected when faced with corruption charges, that nobody is above the law, Prime Minister Victor Ponta, who heads the PSD said on Thursday.
Geoana: Ponta proposed several party fellows, including me be expelled
Social Democrat (PSD) senator Mircea Geoana said at the end of the party's National Executive Committee meeting on Thursday that PSD chairman and Prime Minister Victor Ponta proposed that he be expelled from the party, alongside Dan Sova and Marian Vanghelie.
PSD's Geoana expecting National Executive Committee to thoroughly analyse party's most difficult moment so far
Social Democratic Senator Mircea Geoana said that he expects the party's National Executive Committee that will meet on Thursday to perform an extensive analysis of the most "difficult moment" PSD has ever been through since it emerged on the political scene.
PSD needs deep transformation, no matter what plaster put on huge presidential election wound - Geoana
Social Democrat (PSD) senator Mircea Geoana insisted on Tuesday that the party needs to undergo deep transformation that should turn it into a modern competitive force and pointed out that, in his opinion, the talks about the hierarchy of certain persons in the party are a secondary issue.