site.btaRomanian Prime Minister Ciolacu: I Chose Order and Not Chaos

Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, who voted in the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday, said he chose order, not chaos. "We cannot afford a political crisis at this moment because it will lead to chaos, to insolvency. I think Romania must have a president who already has a parliamentary majority to be able to propose reforms and implement the programme he is running on. Only one candidate had such a programme for the country," the Prime Minister said.

He added that he voted for Romania to move forward together with its EU and NATO partners. Marcel Ciolacu also expressed his satisfaction with the high voter turnout of Romanians abroad. 

Asked what he had conveyed to James Traynor, head of the American delegation that is in Bucharest to observe the presidential elections, Marcel Ciolacu replied "that the elections in Romania will be properly organized, as all elections organized for 35 years. There were no major problems in the last elections and there will be no major problems now." 

The Prime Minister stressed that the involvement of the executive in the organisation of the elections is exclusively administrative.