PM Ponta to present governing priorities for 2015-2016 at the PSD National Executive Committee convention

PSD [Social Democratic Party] chairman, Victor Ponta, is going to present the main priorities of the government for 2015-2016, on Friday and Saturday [January 30-31], at the convention of the National Executive Committee of the party. The convention will overlap with the gathering of the Social-Democratic parliamentary groups.

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'On Friday and Saturday we are going to have the usual convention of the National Executive Committee of the PSD, where I intend to present, as Prime Minister representing PSD and the governing coalition, the main priorities that we have in mind for 2015 and 2016, and also I will speak about our obligation to continue to generate growth in the next years, create jobs, implement new measures in the social security, economic and infrastructure development fields. Moreover, we shall discuss the main items on the agenda of the National Council meeting due on March 20-21, which Council is going to adopt a very clear position, first of all, related to the new political project of changing the PSD statute and the convening of the Congress to establish the leadership for the next interval,' said the PSD chairman at the end of the meeting of the National Standing Bureau of the political entity.

He reaffirmed on this occasion that the future statute of the PSD will include clear provisions related to those who will be facing justice problems, but he also added that the change will be operated by the National Council and by the Congress respectively.

'Everything is quite clear to me ? we need to specify crystal clear in our statute the procedure to be followed during the various stages of the criminal trial. If the National Council and my colleagues disagree with this, then they...