​Prime Minister Marcel Călăcu called the intention of the Civil Aviation Authority of Romania (AACR) to buy the latest iPhone 15 phones “insensitive”. “They canceled the auction. I do not want to tell you my dialogue with the Secretary of State, who subordinates the authorities. This is not something you can say on TV,” he said.

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  • “The aviation authority canceled the tender. I do not want to tell you my dialogue with the Secretary of State, who subordinates the authorities. This is not something to say on TV. Numbness, that’s how far his head is! I also said yesterday in the parliament: we can implement anything, we have common sense from the family,” said Marcel Cholaku in an interview with Digi 24 on Wednesday.

AACR refused to purchase six iPhone 15 phones and one Samsung S23

Romania’s Civil Aviation Authority (AACR) announced on September 22 that it bought six iPhone 15 mobile phones and one Samsung S23 Ultra phone, the latest flagship phone from Apple and Samsung, according to data from the e-government procurement department. system.

AACR was going to pay 39,178 lei (over €7,800) to Crontrade Group, according to the purchase announcement made by the Banii nîssi community on September 23.

After media coverage of this procurement, on September 25, AACR published an announcement in SEAP that it had “abandoned the procurement.”