Candidate Ponta: Two 'suckers' in Europe have budget surpluses, me and Chancellor Merkel

Incumbent prime minister Victor Ponta, the presidential candidate of the Social Democrat Party, National Union for Romania's Progress and Conservative Party said there are two 'suckers' in Europe whose governments have budget surpluses: himself and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Ponta thus answered in a face to face TV debate on Wednesday night an earlier assertion of his opponent, Christian Liberal Alliance's candidate Klaus Iohannis, who had called him a 'sucker' left with money he couldn't spend.

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