Presidential candidate Ponta: Let us begin building after 10 years of war, destruction

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running for president of Romania in Sunday's polls under the banner of the Alliance of the Social Democrats, the National Union for the Progress of Romania and the Conservatives (PSD-UNPR-PC), said early in the day he had voted because 'after ten years of war and destruction', the time of reconstruction has come.

'I am absolutely convinced and I am very optimistic that 25 years since we have gained a freedom that we very much and very many of us wanted — I was only 17 at the time...—we can end a transition that seemed to never end. I think in this winter we will be a genuinely democratic country, a European country and that, after ten years of war and destruction we can get down to building. And we will build in Bucharest, and in Transylvania and in Moldavia too and for the Romanians outside the borders because, I repeat, after so much war and destruction it is high time we re-built', Ponta said on leaving the polling station.

The prime minister was accompanied by his wife, MEP Daciana Sarbu.AGERPRES