Romania’s National Liberal Party (PNL) elected on April 10 its president during perhaps the most expedited congress and certainly the first single-candidate internal elections held by a major political party in the country in three decades, according to Romania-Insider.com.
His predecessor Florin Citu, elected during a much more dramatic ballot last September, was replaced simply because “there’s always room for improvement,” as interim PNL president Gheorghe Flutur put it.
The improvement, in this case, is a closer cooperation with the Social Democrats – something Florin Citu was not ready to accept easily. Although he followed up to a point the policies inspired by President Iohannis, Citu never really accepted the grand political coalition with the Social Democrats forged by Iohannis.
“I am not a senior member of the party, I have no political experience, and I do not pretend to be one – but I will never be a prisoner,” Ciuca said in the speech held at the congress.
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