Dissidents Adrian Tutuianu and Marian Neacsu excluded from PSD. Paul Stanescu got away: I believe the party made a big mistake. Dragnea, ahead of CExN meeting: Unfortunately, it will be an unpleasant but necessary meeting. From Madrid, Firea resumes “offensive” against Dragnea: We can no longer continue under the terror of exclusions. PSD is led by toxic character

Social Democratic Party’s  (PSD)  Executive Committee  (CEx) decided on Monday, in a 53-9 vote, to exclude Adrian Tutuianu and Marian Neacsu, the latter announcing that he will not fight against the party but will challenge the decision. “Following this vote we are obviously excluded. We will go, we will analyse, we will go at the party branches. Of course, we will file challenges, because it’s a senseless public execution. It’s very interesting how I managed to go from one extreme to the other. It’s an absolute lie. Both in the letter and every time we discussed with our colleague, we never had the intention to vote for the Opposition. We were and will remain the party’s loyal soldiers,” Marian Neacsu stated after the Executive Committee meeting. “Why the decision was taken was not explained to us. There were some mindboggling reasons, senseless, so it’s hard for me to say. Yes, it’s an influential party office, won at the party conference. If the vote of 4,000 colleagues at the party conference did not matter, that’s that,” Neacsu said. Marian Neacsu was PSD Secretary General, an office in which he was appointed following the party conference in March 2018, while Adrian Tutuianu was vice president of the party. Adrian Tutuianu stated that the decision adopted on Monday shows that different opinions are censured within the party. At the same time, Tutuianu said: “After 20 years, there are some colleagues who say I improperly served the interests of this party,” adding that he will talk with the members of the Dambovita branch. “It’s a difficult moment I was expecting. I believe it’s a major mistake and today’s decision does nothing but show that different opinions are censured within the PSD. I expressed myself within the party. I didn’t see anyone condemning the fact that a man was recorded within the PSD by people interested in spoiling things in a party branch. I never intended to hide the things that are not working. I believe the party is heading in the wrong direction. Time will show whether we were right or those who voted for our exclusion today were right. There are statutory means, the Ethics Commission, the Party Congress, and there are legal means. I will consult my PSD Dambovita colleagues and we will decide what we have to do next. I want two things to be clear. To talk about a party’s problems does not mean being against the party. Neither Mr Neacsu nor I supported actions against the party,” Tutuianu said.   Stanescu after exclusions: I believe the party has made the biggest mistake today   Deputy Premier Paul Stanescu stated on Monday, after the Executive Committee meeting in which it was decided to exclude Marian Neacsu and Adrian Tutuianu, that this is the biggest mistake that the party has made, and he does not fear being sanctioned next. “I believe the party has made a big mistake today, maybe the biggest mistake. Today I really am by their side and I believe it’s a mistake. I have no problem with that (being replaced in the Government – editor’s note),” Paul Stanescu stated.   Dragnea, ahead of CExN meeting: Unfortunately, it will be an unpleasant but necessary meeting   PSD Chairmant Liviu Dragnea stated on Monday, ahead of the party’s Executive Committee meeting, that the meeting will unfortunately be unpleasant, but necessary, and suggested that there will be several proposals to exclude party members. “Unfortunately, it will be an unpleasant but necessary meeting,” Dragnea said. Asked whether he will table proposals to exclude party members, he said: “We’ll propose several, to put an end to this whole period in which some colleagues plotted, negotiated, the ousting of the PSD Government.”   PSD’s Dragnea shows up to CExN reunion with two suitcases, one containing donuts.  “Documents” brought by PSD leader concern Klaus Iohannis   PSD President Liviu Dragnea brought two suitcases to PSD’s Executive Committee meeting on Monday, following Rise Project’s announcement that it is in possession of Tel Drum documents found in a suitcase. “I’m a little bit late because I received two suitcases. The first suitcase is full of fudge from Rise Project. It’s fresh. We’ll eat it here. The second suitcase… as you know I’m from Teleorman [County], and, as any person from Teleorman, I found in my courtyard a suitcase of documents that are yet to reach the DNA, so let’s see what’s in it. Look, dossier no.1 – the procurement of the Raiffeisen dossier. Restitutions to the German Forum of the German ethnic group. Three – the promotion of prosecutors who dismissed his cases. Four – statements about money collected as rent. Five –renting the house from the German Forum. Six – the pressuring of a Constitutional Court judge. And there are also some [USB] sticks,” Liviu Dragnea stated on his arrival. The dossiers that Liviu Dragnea brought in suitcases to the PSD’s ExCom meeting on Monday contain several documents, including the ordinance to dismiss a case concerning Klaus Iohannis, signed by prosecutor Cristian Lazar, as well as reports on the dismissed criminal cases in which the President was involved. Dossier no.03 – Promotion of prosecutors who dismissed his cases – contains President Klaus Iohannis’s decrees appointing in office prosecutors Augustin and Cristian Lazar. Document no.1: Presidential decree no.989/15 December 2015, appointing prosecutor Aurel Cristian Lazar – who dismissed criminal dossier no.664/P/2013 which concerned President Klaus Iohannis – as deputy chief prosecutor of the Criminal Prosecution and Criminology Section of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Court of Cassation and Justice (PICCJ). One of the dossiers also contains the ordinance to dismiss the case concerning Klaus Iohannis, signed by prosecutor Cristian Lazar, an ordinance that, according to the document, is allegedly closely connected with the decision to appoint him in office. “Thus, President Iohannis used his public office to obtain an undue benefit, consisting of the dismissal of the criminal case in which he was being probed,” reads one of the documents. Another document concerns the presidential decree...

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