Prime Minister Marcel Çolaku has reacted for the first time to the resignation of Gabriela Firea as family minister following the horrific asylum scandal, saying it was “very clear” to him that Firea had no direct involvement in the case and that ” everything will not change, but only with a number of resignations.” He also says he expects mayors, district council chairmen, directors of local government agencies or police chiefs who were involved in the shelters in Voluntari and Afumac to “take full responsibility” and “take a step back”.

Cholaku responded with a message posted on Facebook.

He also says that everything will not change, but only with a series of resignations and that “the worst thing would be if this legitimate public outrage was covered by a series of resignations, and behind the scenes everything remained as it was.”

Marcel Cholak’s full message:

“However, only a series of resignations will not change everything”

• “Today I had a discussion in the government with the minister Gabriela Firea on the subject of “shelters of horrors”.
• It is quite clear to me that Ms. Gabriela Firea as a minister has no direct relation to this case. However, in recent days, his lordship has been under enormous pressure due to some of the minister’s employees, whose involvement has already been proven.
• Therefore, until all aspects related to this case are clarified, Ms. Firea has decided to submit her mandate as Minister of the Family.
• I want to emphasize that I appreciate Ms. Fiera’s voluntary gesture.
• But you should not stop there. Now I’m waiting for mayors, heads of county councils, directors of local government agencies or police chiefs who had something to do with the “shelters of horrors” to take full responsibility. Everyone has to take a step back.
• However, a series of resignations alone will not change things. The worst thing would be if this legitimate public indignation was covered up by a series of resignations, and behind the scenes everything remained as it was.
• Real, deep change is needed to fix this horrible system that has corrupted consciousness in exchange for money.
• I assumed it as prime minister. And I will go to the end! I will change things from top to bottom together with my colleagues in the government, the Romanian Orthodox Church and other cults in Romania, as well as civil society. I have no mercy for those who destroyed the lives and souls of defenseless people!”.

Family Affairs Minister Gabriela Firea resigned on Friday, she also removed herself from the post of president of PSD Bucharest. Firea announced her resignation in a lengthy Facebook post in which she says she is “completely innocent,” continuing to claim she is a victim and that there was an “all-out war to destroy her” and less to find out the truth. “: “There was only one interest: to pour as much dirt as possible on me, as much misinformation as possible, to put media pressure on me and my husband, to put me on a pillar of shame with one goal.”

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Gabriela Firea resigned at the end of the government’s discussion with Prime Minister Marcel Čolaku.

The resignation comes ten days after investigators raided the Voluntary and Afumac asylums of horrors, and after numerous revelations about Gabriela Firea’s ties to Stefan Godei, the patron of two homes for the elderly.

Gabriela Firea has been the Minister of Family Affairs and Equal Opportunities since November 25, 2021, since the inauguration of the PNL-PSD government led by Nicolae Chuke.

In her message, Gabriela mentions Stefan Godey without naming him, she talks about “that defendant” who followed Ligia Gheorghe, her friend and former adviser, “as a driver, as a good person in everything.” Firea says Ligia Gheorghe supported Godey in setting up the association, but he was unaware of the violations and neither was she.

Firea continues to claim that there was a ten-day “total war for its demolition” with one goal – not to enter the race for the capital’s mayor’s office.

She says she is stepping down as minister “with great regret, but with determination and with her head held high” through no fault of her own, and that she has made the decision to leave the government “so that the Prime Minister can work quietly on a good economy”. . and social projects for Romanians and for PSD and PNL ministers to present their work.’