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PM Grindeanu accuses Liviu Dragnea of wanting to seize the country, requests Congress to convene

June 18, 2017

Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu accused Liviu Dragnea, on Saturday in Timisoara that he wants not only to seize the Social Democratic Party (PSD), but the country also, and he requested for a Congress of the party to be convened. The PM underscored that the elections in 2016 were won by the hundreds of thousands of […]

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