Analyst: Things will be better and calm down; it is important that the state institutions do their job

Things will go for the better and calm down, but the state institutions, the prosecutor's office, must start doing their job, said Cristian P?un, professor of economics at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies (ASE).  ‘The decision to cancel the presidential elections will have a much better economic impact than the perspective of gaining them by a candidate about whom the Constitutional Court suspected of having been helped by another country. Things will calm down, but it is important, at the present moment, according to these decisions that the state institutions, the prosecutors’ office do their job, so that this person be investigated, and the evidence be evaluated and sent to trial. We cannot give a CCR decision (the Constitutional Court of Romania – o.n)which is not doubled by a strong action. The prosecutor’s office, especially the DIICOT( Directorate for the Investigation of Organised Crime and Terrorism), the services, must come up with irrefutable evidence so that the man can be quickly and urgently brought to trial for those acts for which he is suspected, according to the SRI reports, for which the CCR is cancelling these elections. We need to recover some money that has been spent and which was not a little with these cancelled presidential elections, money that belongs to Romanians and which was spent in the wrong way because one person chose to act in the way he did.It is very important that everybody finds out, knows what happened – and there should be no doubt that these facts were real’, mentioned Cristian Paun after CCR decided to cancel the whole electoral process of presidential elections.According to him, until the organization of the new presidential elections there is a solution, as the president of the state ends his mandate on time, so that the president position be taken over interim by the one who will be elected the president of the Senate, according to the law."The President of the Senate will temporarily take over as President until elections are organised and, after the elections are organised, we have a new full President elected by us. What is very important is that, when submitting candidacies, no more candidacies should be accepted where there is evidence that those candidates have acted in a similar way to the candidate who has caused the cancellation of these elections, because I have the impression that there are other candidates who were on the lists in the first round, who used exactly the same methods - and had exactly the same support as the candidate who has now caused this cancellation of the elections. All things can go in the right direction if the state institutions do their job and really show that they have the situation under control, because what we are seeing now is a rather dangerous situation. The state institutions seem overwhelmed by what they have uncovered and their actions are rather precipitate and rather chaotic. They need to come to their senses quickly and intervene forcefully, because that's what state institutions are there for, that's what those paid people are there for, to give us enough security, enough peace of mind," the economics professor emphasised.   According to him, the moment these institutions offer us the necessary calm, things can become normal and Romania can get in an area where it shows it is governable."Romania can enter an area where it can show that it is a governable country, it is a country where things happen without outside interference, and the choices that people make about their leaders are choices that are not influenced in any way, not in any way, not in any way, not influenced by outside interference. I believe things will go smoothly and settle down beyond any doubt. We have nothing to lose at the moment more than what we would have lost if an individual who manipulated, lied, had been in charge of the country. We have just learnt that the UN (United Nations Organisation, editor's note) has declared that the man had no function there. This man came with a CV, signed up with a CV, in which the things there are completely false. This is a false public statement. Under these circumstances, an institution must do its duty and hold him to account", added Cristian P?un.