Ponta: I am much more optimistic, confident we not only win, but also be able to change country

Prime Minister Victor Ponta, running in the presidential runoff from Nov. 16 under the banner of the Alliance of the Social Democrats, the National Union for the Progress of Romania and the Conservatives (PSD-UNPR-PC) told a video conference with the Social Democrat county leaders on Tuesday he hopes to win the second round of voting by a difference of votes that should offer him the legitimacy to enforce the changes he envisages for Romania.

'I am much more optimistic and confident that not only will we win, but will also be able to change the country and be able to stop the ten years (of Traian Basescu rule — editor's note). Nevertheless, it depends on you, those who are in my campaign team to succeed in attaining this objective by a difference likely to give us legitimacy for the changes we want to make in the country in the period immediately ahead... I am absolutely convinced that on November 16 we can set off on a new road for Romania', Ponta said.

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