The joint candidacy of the PSD and the PNL in the 2024 presidential elections may be a political project, but it is difficult to implement, said Social Democrat Vasile Dinku, Minister of National Defense, according to Agerpres.

“This could be an option, even if it was not done in Romanian politics, rather the same type of political forces had separate candidates, as was the case in 2000, for example, when two candidates ran from the right, that was also the time , when Traian Basescu and Crin Antonescu were also candidates, in 2009. Therefore, it is difficult to do in Romania. However, it can also be a political project. However, I doubt, as I know in both parties, that each party will not have the ambition to promote its own ideology through its own candidate, because at the end of the day, the importance of the presidential election does not depend on how you manage to lead Romania after that through the office of the president, because the president of Romania still has semi-presidential powers,” said Vasile Dincu on Prima TV on Saturday.

According to him, a presidential candidate is the best message that can be sent to a society that “doesn’t really have a political culture.”

Vasile Dincu drew attention to the fact that party leaders are running for president in Romania.

“I think that when our prime minister was voted the president of the party and when he was brought to this important dignity, there was this candidate project. In general, in Romania, as you have seen, party leaders are the ones running for president. It is very difficult to attract a candidate from outside,” says Vasile Dinku.

He noted that Marcel Cholaku is the favorite candidate for the PSD presidential election.

“Marcel Cholaku is an honest politician, he belongs to another generation of politicians. I could say that, seeing the experience of other leaders, he is the only one who has proposed something that is common sense, that when he is no longer president, he would like to be able to stay in the party, which has not happened to other people, and go quietly home. (…) I think that Marcel Çolaku is currently our most empowered representative who can become prime minister in 2023 and then, depending on what we establish, based on research, based on the vision of the potential , based on the strategy that we will develop, we will see if we can actually find, we can convince the party to be someone else, say, outside the party. At the moment, we can consider that our president is the favorite for the candidacy, even if he frankly says that any option is open,” Dinku added.