Former President Traian Basescu tells Digi 24 that Iohannis’ public declaration of candidacy for the post of NATO Secretary General carries a great risk, because if the Allies decided to abandon Mark Rutte’s candidacy, they would have to do The American side received the message.

“Jokingly, I would say that I never believed that the post of NATO Secretary General would ever be put up for competition, but Iohannis signed up,” Besescu joked.

He renewed his attacks on Mark Rutte, who he said “disrespects Romania and Romanians” and should not be elected.

Basescu says he doesn’t know what chances Iohannis has because he doesn’t have inside information, but he says the president has to rely on some international contacts and have something to offer in the talks he’s leading because otherwise “he’ll be laughed at “. “.

The former president believes that “both success and failure would mean about the same from the country’s point of view, because he would have no real authority, because the troops move their generals, but it would be a blow to his prestige, first. everything, but also for the country.”

Why couldn’t Basescu also announce his candidacy?

Asked by Digi 24 if he had ever considered such a candidacy, Traian Basescu said he could not because he had a suitable government.

“No, I had nothing to take because I had no tools with which to obtain such. The first tool is your own government. I had a government gossiping about me everywhere they could. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, a dictator, did not include me in discussions with partners. They also tried to block all my exits. Remember, we are discussing Ponta’s government,” Basescu said.

President Klaus Iohannis officially put forward his candidacy for the post of NATO Secretary General due to the fears of the Eastern European states that they will remain outside the distribution of senior positions at the level of the North Atlantic Alliance, as well as at the top of the European Union.

At the moment, the candidacy of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte for the post of NATO Secretary General is supported, according to Reuters, by 20 of the 31 member states, including the great powers of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany.

But among many of the alliance’s new members, particularly those bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, the proposal was met with much less enthusiasm, POLITICO reported in a recently published analysis.

“What moral credibility does this guy have?” – said the former president of Estonia, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, noting that the Netherlands did not fulfill its commitment to NATO to spend 2% of GDP on defense during Rutte’s 13 years as prime minister.

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