REPER MEP Dacian Cholos responded on Saturday to USR leader Catalin Druli, who said he was an anti-leader. “I want to contribute to projects that make Romania a better place to live, and I don’t want to be part of projects that live on enmity, division and aggression,” Ciolos said, saying he had seen Catalin Drula’s statements and understood better their. what separated them and what brought them closer, reports News.ro

“From a political point of view, I am still convinced that we (and not just the two of us) see the same solutions for Romania. But as for the power model, here our vision is different,” says Cholos.

“I saw Ketalin Drula’s statements and better understood what divides us and what unites us. From a political point of view, I am still convinced that we (and not just the two of us) see the same solutions for Romania. But as for the model of power, here our vision is different. I have received the same objections that Catalin Drula formulated from several of those I have worked with in Romanian politics, friends, colleagues or partners. My political opponents criticized me in the same way. In our politics, the dominant model of leadership considers political power to be a form of personal, tough and “masculine” manifestation, when the leader hits the crowd with his fist, and his will is the law and the road in life. This is not my opinion either. This is not the model I believe in. I have read and heard hundreds if not thousands of times that Romania needs a tough and unyielding leader, as if this country is a cabriolet lost in the mud and only a tractor can save it,” wrote Dacian Ciolos on Facebook after Catalin. Drula, USR leader , stated that Cholos was an anti-leader due to his political actions in recent years.

Cholos continued: “I think it’s time to try a different approach. Romania is a country that needs self-confidence, a country that can find its own way and respect itself. In other words, for all this to happen, we need Romanians to enjoy life in their country, to feel respected by other citizens and the authorities, to feel able to live the way they want and to be able to realize themselves in this society. Romanian citizens need presumed freedom, respect and decency, not a father figure, a political satrap, a bread-and-butter who desperately wants to keep the knife in his hands,” he said.

Cholosh: “Today we have a new leader who sticks his head out and wants to be even tougher and crueler. But my example and my creed are not in this sphere of personal hysteria”

According to Cholosh, “we had authoritarian models from 1990 until now, he pounded his fist on the table, threw his coat on the car, drove authoritatively and harshly.”

“Today we have a new leader who sticks his head out and wants to be even tougher and crueler. But my role model and my creed are not in this realm of personal hysteria. I believe in collaboration and giving others a voice. Nothing has grown in the shadow of the leaders described by Katalin Drula since 1990. The Romanian political elite self-destructed through warring camps. Each saw the other as an enemy and did everything possible to make the other disappear. And now we are surprised that we have such a political class. This is the work of “great political leaders” who locked themselves in their cardboard castles and fought against their relatives until destruction,” Cholos said.

The former president of the USR revealed that he “rejects this model, despite the personal costs it incurs and the labels each will impose on him.”

“This was one of the reasons why I left the SDR and gave up the presidency of a party that rejected the camps themselves as a way of functioning. I gave up the presidency of Renew to run for president of USR after trying to negotiate with all camps in the party a reasonable and workable compromise in which we could work together for agreed causes and visions, not by dividing “territory between the camps. At one point right after the merger, I proposed Catalin Drula as president to calm the spirit, but maintaining affiliation with one camp or another was more important than a truly shared political construct. If this is all that my colleagues saw then, I can say that I once again regret that my voice was not heard as I would have liked. But for the thousandth time, I’m not leading anyone by the hand to the Victory Palace, as the current Minister of Transport was led when he headed the government as Prime Minister, I’m not going to come out and say that I did X or Y to a person, and I’m not I will destroy a career because someone is not from my camp. That’s what I decided to be,” said Cholos.

Cholos: “I was not looking for enemies in politics, nor was I looking for political growth from absurd and fruitless fights”

The MEP also notes: “I can say only one thing about political projects and political power. I prefer respect for facts to respect born of fear. I want to contribute to projects that make Romania a better place to live, and I don’t want to be part of projects that live on enmity, division and aggression. Romania is the country of all those who live here, even if they voted with PSD or will vote with AUR. There are no two or more Romanians, and such an idea is harmful and destroying this country. I did not look for enemies in politics, just as I did not look for political growth from absurd and fruitless fights. I believe that my political mission is to offer people solutions and respect their choices. Those who believe in something else are equally free to choose their own path, provided that this path does not burden others.”

Drula about Cholos: “Mr. Cholos was an anti-leader due to his political actions in recent years. And Romania needs a leader”

The successor of Dacian Cholos as president of the USSR, Ketalin Drula, is convinced that Cholos cannot be the solution for next year’s presidential elections. “Mr. Cholosh was an anti-leader due to his political actions in recent years. And Romania needs a leader, it does not need someone who abdicates the throne, who surrenders, who is capricious, who builds himself,” says Drula.

Asked on Prima Tv’s Insider Politic show on Saturday whether his predecessor at the head of the USR, Dačian Cholos, could be the solution to his candidacy in the presidential elections, Katalin Drula replied: “I’m sure not,” News.ro reports.

“I don’t believe it. I mean, it’s not that I don’t think so, I’m sure not. Because Mr. Ciolos, because of his political actions in recent years, has been an anti-leader. And Romania needs a leader, it doesn’t need someone who renounces to the throne, who surrenders, who is capricious, who builds himself. The leader of the country must be generous, and his project cannot be himself. When your project is yourself, it is not good for the community.”

Asked about possible coalitions in the 2024 elections, the USR president says he sees “a possible and likely solution around the USR,” including people from the PNL who are no longer members of the Liberal Party.