Former Prime Minister Petre Roman said on Monday that he had a national project called the Market Economy Implementation Strategy Project in Romania, and that after that there were no more country projects. He clarified that the only big mistake he made was not to run for the presidency of Romania in September 1992, noting that after the 1992 vote a “red government” had been installed in Romania.

“I had a dacha project, I can say that there were no dacha projects later. I make this statement not at all with a good feeling, but with bitterness, today even more,” said the former prime minister in the show Proiect de rația: Romania, from Prima News, News.ro reports.

He said he launched the dacha project on January 6, 1990, ten days after he became prime minister.

“We had the idea that we should build a country house project. First, let’s find out what is the economic and social reality of Romania, because obviously the system lied to the masses. And we met with an exceptional person in the modern history of Romania, Academician Tudorel Postolace, who was the director of the Institute of Economic Research, and with whom we discussed the launch of this project. In May, shortly after that, we had this document called “Project Strategy for the Implementation of a Market Economy in Romania.” It was a real state project, including the parliamentary agenda, the laws that had to be adopted, it was a document on which 1,400 Romanian specialists worked, with an enthusiasm that is hard to imagine,” Roman added.

He noted that this document was worked on with great enthusiasm and was assisted by 1,000 foreign specialists, all free of charge. “Then there was a great desire to put Romania where it can be, where it deserves to be, so this document was worked on with great enthusiasm,” he confirmed.

Petre Roman stated that he became Prime Minister on December 27, 1989, in the context of the Romanian Revolution, when he was a professor at the Polytechnic, a scientist who had several papers published in prestigious journals abroad, and the head of the Polytechnic. hydraulic machines and engineering environment.

“I had nothing to do with politics, and I rather hated politics. We were under the Ceausescu regime, it was the last Stalinist regime in the entire Soviet space,” said Petre Roman, noting that he lived in a democracy, in France, where he also received a doctorate and was a professor at three universities. “It is not about a dream, but about the growing concern, first of all, about the lack of freedom and the absurdity of the regime,” said Roman.

When asked about his relationship with former army chief Ion Iliescu, Roman said that it had been many years since he had communicated with him.

“I made a big mistake, the only big mistake I made, which is that in September 1992 I didn’t run for the presidency of Romania, because it was very likely that I would have won, and what happened later. (..) After the vote in 1992, a red government was created in Romania, a red quadrangle, there were all parties of communist origin, we fell apart,” he said.

Petre Roman expressed his belief that Romania would look different if he had won the presidential election. “Certainly, we would continue on the path we were hired on,” he noted.