Former Prime Minister Victor Ponta said in a Facebook post on Saturday that he was pleased to be appointed as an honorary adviser in the field of international economic relations. He added that even his haters say he was the best prime minister for the economic sphere, and called on those who don’t like the current chief executive and PSD leader Marcel Čolaku to go work with other political leaders.

“Back in business! If I have the opportunity to do something concrete, I’m not content to sit on the sidelines sulking and criticizing everything. If I can be in a team where I am valued, I don’t have to be the captain – I can play both in attack and defense. If my haters also say that I was the best Prime Minister in the economic sphere, why not apply what I learned then, and moreover what I have seen in recent years, in the private sphere (where all those who manage large public institutions),” Viktor Ponta wrote on Facebook on Saturday, news.ro noted.

He said he would be happy if he could support projects that would bring more money to Romania.

“If I manage to support projects that bring a lot of money into Romania (to compensate for a lot of money going out), we all win and I’m happy. If I use my international relations to inform our neighbors and partners that after 8 years Romania has a prime minister again (and not just an absent president), I think I am doing something good. If I know how to explain to people what I think and what I do, with subject and predicate, and it upsets lazy and illiterate people who sweat when they see a journalist or a voter, this is a great achievement,” Ponta added. .

He urged those who don’t like PSD leader Marcel Čolaka to go work with Klaus Iohannis, Nicolae Chuke, Katalin Drula, George Simion, Ludovic Orban or Diana Choshoake.

“If you don’t like Cholak, you can work with Yohannis, Chuke, Drula, Simion, Orban or Shoshoake, because they are now, the others are not – I am happy with my choice! If it doesn’t work, at least I won’t regret trying!”, concluded Victor Ponta.

In September last year, Marcel Ciolacu said, referring to his predecessors, that Victor Ponta “governed Romania well, he was a good prime minister” and described Liviu Dragnea as an “exceptional organizer”.

At the same time, the president of the Social Democrats said that both “made certain mistakes that are difficult to correct.”

Appointment of Ponta and connection with AUR

Prime Minister Marcel Čolaku has appointed former PSD Prime Minister Viktor Ponta, who resigned after the Colectiv tragedy, as an honorary adviser.

The former PSD president flirted with AUR last year, and in February, after a meeting with George Simion, said he was “open to economic support for any PSD or AUR project.”

Ponta now says he wants to “help” Marcel Cholak, who “treated him very well” and that the relationship with George Simion is over.

Regarding returning to the PSD, Ponta says that he did not object to Čolak, but he is a social democrat and it is normal for him to want it.

“I want to help Mr. Cholak, who treated me very well, and I will advise him on international economic issues. In the last eight years, no prime minister has taken care of foreign economic relations, and I think that this is where I can cooperate with the prime minister and help him with my expertise,” Viktor Ponta told HotNews.ro.

“The relationship with George Simion is over”

Viktor Ponta said that he would advise Marcel Čolaka purely on economic matters and that he would not receive remuneration for this position.

“I believe that the relations we have built in recent years at the external level will help Marcel Čolak in this sense to become a prime minister known at the external level, with economic partners and outside the EU,” said the former PSD leader.

When asked by HotNews.ro about his relationship with AUR, the party he flirted with last year, Viktor Ponta said that it was over:

“The relationship with George Simion and AUR has ended. I have discussed and consulted with Simion and I see that AUR now has a government economic program. I will strictly deal with the project I have now with Prime Minister Markle Čolaku.”

“This is what I do: give business advice”

Former president of the PSD from 2010 to 2015 and co-president of the USL with Crin Antonescu, Victor Ponta was prime minister from May 2012 to November 2015, when he resigned due to street pressure following the Colectiv tragedy.

Ponta was expelled from the PSD in June 2017 after the party, then led by Liviu Dragnea, withdrew its political support from then-Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu, who refused to resign and appointed Ponta as head of the Government’s General Secretariat.

After the parliamentary elections of 2020, when ProRomânia did not pass the parliament, Victor Ponta retired from politics. In January 2021, he opened an economic consulting company.

“This is what I do: I give business advice. Companies from outside, not from Romania. I express my opinion about what is happening in the markets of Eastern Europe. I do not give political advice, only economic advice,” Victor Ponta said in an interview with Digi24.ro.