The former president Traian Băƒsescu declared on Sunday evening, on Digi24, when asked who among Nicolae Ciucăƒ, Marcel Ciolacu and Mircea Geoanăƒ he would vote for in the presidential election, that if these were the options, he would prefer they don’t go to vote. About Ciucăƒ he says that the generals should “eat their special pensions and leave politics to the politicians”, and about Ciolacu he says that he is a merticar who spins them, turn and snow them. As for Geoană, Băƒsescu says that he has beaten him everywhere and that “on his own account he will not enter the 2nd round”.
Asked who he will vote for in the presidential election between Ciucăƒ, Ciolacu and Geoanăƒ, Băƒsescu said that, if these will be the options, he will not go to the vote. „Ciolacu, Ciucăƒ or Geoanăƒ, I am not going to vote. None of them, said the former president.
Băƒsescu, about Ciucăƒ: Generals should eat their special pensions and leave politics to politicians
About Ciucăƒ’s presidential candidacy, Băƒsescu said: “If there is no local earthquake, it will probably be Ciolacu and General Ciucăƒ, although I have no confidence, Romania has been led by generals, it had the Revolution in which the generals were pushed to the top, it had the Second World War with a leading general, so the generals would do well to stay in their place and and leave politics for the politicians. (…)To sit and eat his special pensions and leave politics to the politicians. (…)
I think that the liberals also have the Emil Boc version, which is much better in the polls, if they want to see the lesson, Nature repeats to try with Ciucăƒ and not with Emil Boc, Sà ia om of the party to mobilize the party. (…)I would look at people with political performance in PSD or PNL. My opinion is that they have the candidate and are bypassing him. If Iohannis still controls the PNL and wants Ciucă, Ciucă will be there.â€
Why don’t they vote for Mircea Geoan?
“It is obvious that he will run, the big problem is if he will find a party because individually, on his own, he will not succeed in winning the presidential elections. He doesn’t have the party machine and he won’t enter the 2nd round. (…)I beat Mircea Geoană twice. Once at the Capital City Hall, once at the presidential elections, and I know the story of how the elections were stolen from him in 2009, which is repeated by all those who were against me. In 2009, all the mass media were aligned against me, except for B1 TV. They were all against me and I can’t explain to them how the criterion that no one can win a war with too much worked. Look, it is possible, in 2009 it was demonstrated that it is possible.
There was no way to steal the elections in my favor because in the polling stations all the parties were represented and they were all against me, I had only one. It turned out that a few votes were stolen from me during the canceled ones. So, this story with Geoană won in 2009, I beat Geoană as hard as I could. It was a mistake that after I beat him in the Capital, he entered the presidential election against me. He would not bring as an argument the important function at NATO until he had the certainty that the Romanian state was proposed. I don’t know who proposed it, but I didn’t propose it. I don’t think it was proposed by an institution of the Romanian state, says Băƒsescu.
„Ciolacu is a merticar who spins them, turns them, traps themâ€
The former President of Romania added that he thought that Marcel Ciolacu was a good man, but after the image he made with Căƒțălin Cărstoiu and his candidacy for the Capital City Hall, he realized that the PSD leader “a mercicar who spins them, snowballs them, or in Bucharest does not go to either the PSD or the PNL†.
„I thought that Marcel Ciolacu was a good man, but when I saw what he did for the locals, I realized that he is a fraud. (…) Ciolacu is a mortician who spins them, turns them, snowballs them, even in Bucharest he does not go to PSD or to PNL. These provincial mercies that he comes to Bucharest with, because that’s how you saw it being done there. In Bucharest, it’s not always done like that. It is done differently, especially since here are the sectors that live day by day in partnership and PSD and PNL have mayors in the sectors. They meet daily. The Bucharest organization is extremely strong. There is no way you can come and plant a candidate brought overnight. So I think Ciolacu was wrong, Băƒsescu said.
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