Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said on Thursday that President Klaus Iohannis has a chance to become NATO Secretary General and Romania deserves to be represented at that level, News.ro reports.

Čolak was asked after the meeting of the National Political Council of the PSD, what are the chances of Klaus Iohannis to get a leadership position in NATO.

“Romania has a chance. Romania deserves to be represented at the European and NATO levels. Mr. President has a chance,” said Čolaku in the Parliament Palace.

We will remind, on March 12, Klaus Iohannis announced his candidacy for the post of NATO head at a specially convened press conference in Bucharest.

This is in the conditions when Mark Rutte was considered the favorite for the post of NATO Secretary General. The United States, Great Britain and France announced on February 22 that they are supporting the Prime Minister of the Netherlands to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as NATO Secretary General, giving the Dutch politician a strong position to win the post, Reuters writes.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Thursday was the first to react to the March 12 announcement by Klaus Iohannis, saying of his opponent that “he is a wonderful person,” but declined to comment on the Romanian president’s chances.

Also on Thursday at the European Council in Brussels, Klaus Johannis, answering questions from journalists, said that he has an “absolutely normal relationship” with the Prime Minister of the Netherlands and that none of them “want that because of this competition projects or relations, which have been built for years will be damaged.”