Gabriela Firea and Florentin Pandele were the main characters of the “collective interview” on Realitatea Plus, which was presented by the producer Anka Alexandrescu. Mayor Voluntary has vowed to expose those who “directed and co-ordinated” the asylum of horrors scandal in the summer when his wife was forced to resign as family affairs minister under public pressure.

Realitatea Plus appears to have already started the election campaign through an interview broadcast on Christmas Eve with protagonists Gabriela Firea, PSD senator, and her husband Floretín Pandele, mayor of Volunari, also a member of the formation led by Marcel Çolaku. The interview appeared after an interview held at the home of the capital’s mayor, Nikusor Dan.

Director Anka Alexandrescu began her intervention with a “collective interview”, saying that an important election year is approaching, in which there will be four rounds of elections, and she wants politicians to be known through the prism of their human qualities.

Anca Alexandrescu said she tried to “be objective” and changed her opinion of Florentin Pandele after moving to Voluntari, the city where the husband of the PSD chairman of Bucharest has been passive for more than 20 years.

The interview was held in the house of the Firea-Pandele couple from Voluntari, where the children of the two politicians were also present, in a room with a piano on which there were icons.

Anka Alexandrescu emphasized that this interview is about “children, family and good things”, and at one point the Firea-Pandele family decorated a Christmas tree.

“Bee” and “Mr. Candidate”

During the discussion, Florentin Pandele said that Gabriela Firea’s nickname is “Albinutza” and Mayor Voluntari’s “Mr. Candidate”, according to the PSD senator, who claimed that they live a normal life, but her life partner does not. agrees with this statement, saying that he is troubled by what some of the press are writing about.

Pandele said two children were affected by the scandal in the summer in the context of the revelations about the shelters of horrors in Voluntary, the mayor emphasized that “it was all a big trick, a donut that was supposed to appear”.

“I have not forgiven and I cannot forget. And I didn’t forgive either,” Pandele said. “But you won’t take revenge,” Alexandrescu interjected. “As a Christian, you must love your neighbor as yourself,” continued Mayor Voluntari. Then Gabriela Firea emphasizes: “He will not take revenge! He never took revenge.”

“If I ever get the chance, knowing those who directed and coordinated this story, I know it very well…” Pandele continued, only to be cut off by Firea, “Because mine alone is avenged, says the Lord,” referencing to a verse in the Bible. The man promised to disclose information after the election.

Pandele said the friends were not with the Fiera-Pandele couple during the summer.

“Gigi Bekali was one of the few who came out and defended us,” Mayor Voluntari said.

“Many have gone into their shells,” Fiera declared at once.

Pandele complained that his family was “cut down” for five months.

• Becali trying to protect his girlfriend: Gabriela Firea is innocent / She made a mistake by telling a lie that she didn’t know the man (Godea) / She tried to hide him…

In early November, PSD leader Marcel Çolaku said that Gabriela Firea “maybe” run for mayor of the capital, again saying that at the time there was no decision by the party about another candidate and that the discussion was premature.

Scandalous asylums of horrors

It will be recalled that in July Gabriela Firea suspended herself from all positions in the party and resigned from the position of Minister of the Family after the scandal with the “horror asylums”.

After public pressure over an employee’s involvement in the Voluntari shelter scandal, Fiera announced her resignation in a lengthy message posted on Facebook in which she said she was “completely innocent” while continuing to claim she was a victim and that there was a “total war , to destroy” him “and less to find out the truth”: “There was only one interest: to pour as much dirt on me as possible, as much misinformation as possible, to put pressure on me from the media and my husband, let us be put on a pillar of shame with one goal.”

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

Gabriela Firea, at the start of the horrific asylum scandal, said Godey was never his driver.

Stefan Godey, one of the patrons of the horror shelters, was chosen by Gabriela Firea in October 2018 to go with her on a 6-day delegation to Madrid as a driver, along with Ligia Enake, the then mayor’s adviser and others. city ​​hall employees, an investigation by the Bucharest Media and Bulletin Investigation Center revealed in November.

According to the source, Godey no longer went to the delegation due to medical reasons, but the intention remains.

At the beginning of November, the leaders of the PSD drew attention to the meeting of the National Political Council that the term of Gabriela Firea’s self-exclusion from all positions in the party had expired.

In other words, Firea has been politically rehabilitated within the party and returns to the post of president of PSD Bucharest and member of the party’s leadership forum as first vice president.

As soon as she resumed her duties in the group under the leadership of Marcel Čolaku, Gabriela Firea announced on Monday that she would file a lawsuit against the television station Romania TV, where she was often invited in the past, accusing it of a “media lynching” and that she participates in the “new scandal” in the context of violations found in the affairs of people with disabilities in Ilfov County.

Pandele: “Do you know how much I have to pay on Romanian TV? Ask Sebi Geet how much I have to pay”

In July, the mayor of Voluntari, Florentin Pandele, had a nervous breakdown during an interview he gave from his office to a Romanian TV channel.

Gabriela Firea’s husband accused the PSD of failing to protect the former family minister in the horror asylum scandal, and even of the Social Democrats seeking to end the political career of the former mayor. Bucharest.

Pandele then went live on Romanian television for more than four hours and said he “must be paid” to appear on the TV channel founded by fugitive Sebastian Gitze.

After Victor Chutaku brought it to his attention, Pandele returned and claimed he was “joking”. Pandele was a constant presence on Romanian television throughout the horror asylum scandal.