After the Gorj PSD boasted of detaining all members of the Tirgu Jiu PNL municipal organization, the local liberal leader denies the information. PNL Senator Jon Jordake has clarified the local political scandal and claims that “it’s a lie” because “at most 10 people came to them”.

• “PSD is a party of minions, disinformation. This is a cheeky minion.
• Probably out of desperation or to divert attention from the helplessness they feel at this moment and the stammering they speak, they try to create such news. Nothing is true.
• They say 300 people went to them. First, the former PNL organization has 164 individuals who are in a database that can be accessed by anyone who can access the platform. This can be verified. They had nowhere to get so much.
• During the last two months, they tried to show people who would switch to them at various press conferences. As far as I know, and this is also verifiable, there are about 10 people who have switched to the news networks and their outlets. That’s it,” said Ion Iordache, leader of PNL Gorj, in an intervention on Digi24.

He claims he did not discuss the issue with Nicolae Chuke because the Social Democrats are used to taking pictures with PNL mayors or district leaders and boasting that they will join their party.

• “Such situations were constant. This is not the first time I have done this. Ultimately, it is our concern as organizations to do our work legally and politically.
• Unfortunately, instead of focusing all of our energies on the needs of the county, we are forced to respond to this misinformation. How many times they caught our mayors in various poses, posed with them and said that they were visiting them, they do it all the time. Again, this may be the approach they have in mind. We cannot agree with that.
• Even if we discuss the transfer of people from one party to another, we should leave it to the last moment and in this period we should take care of the needs of the communities in which we live”, concluded Ion Jordake, chairman of PNL Gorj.

What is the actual reality on the ground

At the local level, there were changes within the organization after former PNL leader Gorj Dan Vîlceanu was expelled from the party by the decision of the central leadership. Dan Vilčanu lost the head of the organization in 2022, being a supporter of former PNL president and prime minister Florin Kitsu.

When Nikolaj Čuke also took over the leadership of the party, Dan Vilčana was replaced from the positions he held and internal elections were held in PNL Gorj. In November 2022, PNL senator Ion Iordake was elected president of PNL Gorj.

Sources inside the PNL say that among those who have left the organization and joined the PSD are former leader Dan Vilcanu’s staff, people who were supported in public administration positions by the PSD.

“There are local people in various positions and companies with connections in the energy sector, some former and current employees of Dan Vilcanu, or rather people who represent the differences between the two parties at the local level. They are not mayors or deputies of local councils,” said quoted sources.

PSD and PNL have no non-aggression protocol or pact

PSD and PNL, the parties working together in government, do not have a protocol that prohibits recalling members of a partner party.

In connection with HotNews.ro, PNL press secretary Jonuts Stroe claims that “this is a dispute at the local level between the two branches, which does not affect the work of the coalition at the central level.”

“Otherwise, as stated by the president of the PNL Gorj branch, Senator Ion Iordake, the PSD Gorj information is not true. I don’t understand why PSD Gorj is proud on Facebook that it transferred members of another political party, and why it has such concerns, in the context in which it should deal with the real problems of the citizens of Gorj,” said Ionuts. Stroe.

PSD Gorj announced on Facebook on Thursday that the municipal organization PNL Tirgu Jiu has moved with PSD. The team of the municipal organization of the Social Democratic Party is getting stronger, with the registration of almost 300 new members. with the entire leadership of the former PNL municipal organization,” PSD Gorj announced in a post on its Facebook page.

The Social Democrats of Gorje said that members of the Tirgu Jiu Municipality PSD leadership voted to appoint Mr. Adrian Dayana, director of Edilitara, to the position of vice president.

“In practice, this is a move made together by people who no longer identify with the new approach of the Gorier Liberals and have elected a team whose main concern is the development of Tirgu Jiu Municipality and, implicitly, Gorier County,” you note. cited source.