PNL leader Nicolae Chuke says he will run for president in 2024 if the party asks him to.

Nicolae Chuke was asked in Prima News on Sunday if he wants to become the president of the country.

• “I’m the president of the National Liberal Party, the party with the coat of arms, and when I asked people to run, people asked me, ‘will you run for us?’ And I said yes. In Sinai. Such was the dialogue.
• This is currently an unofficial decision. If the party asks me to run, I will run.
• At the congress, in the National Council, this issue is decided by party forums. You know what it is. I stated, and it seems perfectly normal to say to people, “Brothers, do you think there is any point now, until then, there is still a year, to participate in a contest that we do not know how it will end? Does it make sense to launch this campaign now?” – said Nicolae Chuke, according to News.ro.

When asked if he was putting his position within the party on the line regarding the results of the European Parliament elections, the PNL president answered: “I did not put anyone’s position on the line, because here it is clear, we have to set some goals.”

• “The National Liberal Party in Sinai offered to win the elections. (…) The National Liberal Party won the elections to the European Parliament – 27%, ten MEPs.
• The National Liberal Party won the presidential elections – 64%, local elections – 34.5%. It is true that this occurred in the context of a ten percent decline that will not be repeated in the next election. I am convinced that the active party listening to me now understands what I want to say,” said Chuke.

Asked if he had informed Marcel Cholak before the NLP announced that he would go to the elections alone, Chuke said that if necessary, they talk on the phone “even five times a day”.

Approval by the National Council is needed to make his candidacy official, with no timetable set for now, Chuke said.

On November 3, at a meeting in Sinai, the liberals decided to go to the 2024 elections on their own, and not in an alliance with the PSD, as the PNL leadership initially believed. By a unanimous vote, the PNL chose to run on its own lists in the 2024 elections, and Nicolae Chuke expressed his intention to be the party’s presidential candidate.

Initially, PNL President Nicolae Chuke and General Secretary Lucian Bode advocated in the PNL for an electoral alliance with the PSD in 2024. Part of the party opposed this idea.