The Romanian Prime Minister invites people to vote thinking about Europe and NATO so as not to fall into “chaos”

The winner of the first round of the presidential elections, Calin Georgescu, avoids responding to the press: “You have all the answers”

Dec. 1 () –

The Romanian Prime Minister, the social democrat Marcel Ciolacu, encouraged his compatriots this Sunday to vote in the parliamentary elections with their eyes set on Europe and NATO so as not to fall into “chaos”, after the success in the last presidential elections of the ultranationalist and eurosceptic proposals.

“I voted for Romania to remain in the Schengen area, in the European Union and in NATO. I believe that today Romanians can choose between stability and chaos,” Ciolacu said this Sunday after exercising his right to vote.

“I think today is a very important day for all of us Romanians to continue our journey through Europe and the North Atlantic. It is the most important thing we have to choose today,” he expressed as he left his polling station in Buzau.

The president of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, has expressed himself along these lines, who after voting in Bucharest, celebrated that in previous elections, Romanians had voted for the “Euro-Atlantic path.”

“We are well integrated in the European Union, we are well positioned and we are very respected in NATO. But to keep it like this, we have to vote that way. In conclusion, please vote. I voted for a European Romania,” he said. .

For her part, the presidential candidate, Elena Lasconi, has said she votes for the freedom of Romania. “We will not kneel, we will continue to be free, we will think freely,” said the conservative leader, reports the newspaper ‘Adevarul’.

On the other hand, his rival in the second round of the elections, Calin Georgescu, has chosen not to answer questions from the press. “You have all the answers,” he said, visibly upset.

“I have seen that they are very angry with me for not answering questions. Yes, I do not accept questions and I will not do so now either (…) Once this is over, I want to tell you that I want to be a president who puts his people, his country, first That is not negotiated,” Georgescu said.

Romanians will vote this Sunday in parliamentary elections marked by the possible annulment of the results of the first round of last week’s presidential elections, as well as by the rise of the extreme right after the surprising victory in those elections of Calin Georgescu, candidate nationalist considered pro-Russian and whose campaign has been questioned for lack of transparency.

On this occasion, the Social Democratic Party (PSD) is not the favorite, according to surveys, which place it as the second most voted force, with 21.4 percent of support; although not far from the first, the eurosceptic and conservative Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), which would obtain 22.4 percent.