PM Ciolacu announces PSD withdraws from talks to form new government

 Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu announced on Thursday that the Social Democratic Party (PSD) is withdrawing from discussions for forming the Executive and will vote in Parliament for a right-wing government."You can't establish anything concrete with people who say one thing in private and something else in front of the press. You can't do anything with so-called partners who are 'disgusted' to sit at the table with you and who think this is how they 'get dirty.' PSD has tolerated such attitudes long enough without commenting and without making a fuss, as others have done. This way of working is completely counterproductive in front of the people. Therefore, PSD is withdrawing with dignity from the discussion table, but we are not fleeing from responsibility. We will vote in Parliament for a right-wing government. We are doing this because this country urgently needs a government to manage the current issues until the upcoming presidential elections. Romania cannot be blown away by childish stances and stupid pride," Ciolacu wrote on Facebook.Marcel Ciolacu added that both he and the party he leads fully understood the vote of the Romanian people, which "was a vote of condemnation against a political class more focused on sterile quarrels and revenge than on the lives of Romanians.""That is why we believed we were obliged to put aside what has been, to move past the broken promises of our Coalition partners, and to try to move forward together to provide this country with a stable and functional government as quickly as possible! Aware of the serious situation Romania is in, which has been pointed out not only by our European partners but also by international financial institutions, we even went further, initiating the efforts to form a larger coalition made up of all pro-European parties. Unfortunately, you cannot build anything durable with partners who are incapable of overcoming their own egos and ideological clichés and who behave just as they did during the electoral campaign that brought us here," Ciolacu said.    The Social Democrats will vote "without any hesitation" for a right-wing government in Parliament, "not necessarily out of love," but because Romania needs political stability, prime minister Marcel Ciolacu stated on Thursday."There has been a lot of talk in recent days about Romania's economic situation. As we have seen in the announcements of international financial organizations, they refer to political stability, not necessarily to the gross figures, which are currently being negotiated with the European Union, with a deficit reduction trajectory for 7 years. So Romania is stable from this point of view, but the fact that it was not possible to form a governing coalition in an even shorter period of time and the fact that we will not have a state budget by the end of the year has led to this concern. And we will see, in the coming days, how the three right-wing parties, which have previously been in government, will manage to finish the negotiations. And as I have already announced publicly, the PSD will vote for this right-wing government, not necessarily out of love, but I believe that we must be, once again, the mature ones in the room. Romania needs political stability, which will also lead, once again, to economic stability," stated Marcel Ciolacu.He underscored that the Social Democrats wanted to achieve a pro-European coalition, but he accused the attacks on the PSD launched by some of the discussion partners.