PNL's Blaga to PM Ponta: Learn from Moldova's PM and step down

Co-chair of the opposition National Liberal Party (PNL) Vasile Blaga on Friday said an aye for the motion of censure against Prime Minister Victor Ponta is a solution of utmost urgency to the national interest of Romania, telling to Ponta that he should learn from Moldova's prime minister and step down.

"Moldova's prime minister stepped down saying that all citizens are equal before law. Romania is today in the throes of a crisis generated and amplified by the prime minister, whose legitimacy is undermined each day by him. The Romanian Government is in full process of dissolution. Mr prime minister defies everybody, the voters and supporters of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) alike, while refusing to make a normal gesture in any democratic country: resign office,' said Blaga.

He claimed that 'Ponta and the justice minister are resorting to threats against the citizens who want to protest.' Blaga mentioned that the Liberals gave up on creating a human chain around Parliament.

"Mr Ponta looks like a desperate politician who only has one care, power preservation and only one thought: clinging to his office at the Government House no matter the costs,' Blaga added.

The PNL co-chair argued that the prime minister blocked the overseas Romanians' right to vote in the presidential election of 2014.

He added that the current situation is murky, with devastating effects on Romania's credibility.

"We find ourselves in the surreal situation in which Prime Minister Victor Ponta says the right to cast ballots is sloganeering, while clinging to the vote of Romanians in order to stay in office. It would have been better for the county if this motion had had no sense because Mr Ponta would have resigned, but he did not. Resignation...