Romanian PM Opens Election Campaign With Call For Change
Rukhshan Mir (@rukhshanmir) Published November 07, 2016 | 02:05 AM
BUCHAREST, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 07th Nov, 2016 ) - Romania's technocrat Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos on Sunday opened campaigning season for next month's general election with a call for change within political parties.
"We need change at the heart of the political parties... we must be guided by honesty and good sense," Ciolos told a gathering of the centre-right National Liberal Party (PNL). which supports the independent prime minister.
Romania, an EU member since 2007, has come under close scrutiny from Brussels in the areas of corruption and judicial reform. Last month Ciolos, a former EU agriculture commissioner who has high approval ratings, launched a "reform of the state", calling for a broad coalition of political parties and civil society around to make it work.
He has received the support of the Liberals and the new Save Romania Union, the two main centre-right parties, Both parties are opposed to the Social Democrats, the election favourites, and have said they would put forward Ciolos as premier if they win the general election on December 11.
Ciolos has said he will not stand as a lawmaker in the election or be affiliated to any of Romania's bickering political parties. "I want to collaborate with parties whose goal is to give rather than receive. That's how we will regain confidence," the prime minister said.
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