Answering a question about PSD’s future presidential candidate, Marcel Cholaku said that the Minister of Agriculture, Petre Daea, should not neglect the candidate either. The PSD leader added that Mircea Joane has not yet announced that he would like to participate in the presidential race, and clarified that he has already conveyed to his party colleagues that the custom in the PSD in which the president of the formation is legal. candidate for the post of head of state. For his part, Petre Daea, when asked if he would be tempted to become PSD’s candidate for president or prime minister, answered: “I leave this answer, my conscience tells me – let me do what I know.”

“You should know that Minister Daea, who is next to me, cannot be neglected as a candidate for the presidency of Romania,” said Marcel Colacu, questioned on Thursday, after the electoral conference of the PSD Dolj county organization, when the PSD will nominate a presidential candidate in the context , in which Mircea Joane and Alexandru Rafila will be interested in the candidacy, News.ro reports.

Minister of Agriculture Petre Daea, when asked what tempts him more – the presidential candidacy or the position of prime minister, answered: “I leave this answer, my conscience says so – let me do what I know.”

Social Democrat leader Marcel Čolaku added that PSD’s statutes will be changed to no longer exist, according to which the party’s president is also a candidate in the presidential election.

“What I can tell you for sure is that I announced to my colleagues and I had a discussion with them before I made this announcement – that from now on the custom has ended in the PSD, accordingly, the party president was rightfully a candidate for the position of president. We have to address this through the bylaws amendment that we will introduce next year to fit in. But the election you are asking me about is at the end of 2024. In other words, after this change in Congress, I automatically announced that there would be a race for the presidency within the party. Accordingly, they will come and present their program, and not a handful of people will decide who the candidate is, as it has been until now, because we must learn from the mistakes of the past. Just like today at the election conference, with mayors, vice-mayors, councilors, with parliamentarians, they will decide who of those who registered for the election represents them best, by voting, so that it will be a democratic system. I was wrong. When we lose four times, it means we made a mistake and we have to fix it. If you want to recommend to my colleagues, although I have not seen Mr. Joane announce any candidacy. I think that now each of us has a temporary function assigned by the Romanians. Our focus should be primarily on the position and on doing our job as best we can in the position the Romanians have chosen for us. After we complete this task given by the vote of the Romanians, then let’s register for the elections for another position. This is how I see it,” Cholaku explained.