Ponta – Antonescu confrontation: » betrayed ‘, “I didn’t sit unemployed”
The candidate of the electoral alliance « Romania, before! » At the presidential elections, Crin Antonescu, and the independent candidate Victor Ponta had, on Tuesday evening, an exchange of replies on the topic of each of them.
Crin Antonescu was invited to Victor Ponta, who said that « he copied, betrayed », to specify whether at the time he was a spokesman for the candidate Mircea Geoană, in 2009, he granted another candidate.
« He betrayed three parties, two governments, at least one country, I do not know exactly the loyalty to the Serbian state, » said Antonescu about Ponta, at the electoral debate organized by public television at Cotroceni Palace.
Victor Ponta replied that he always worked, he was unemployed « no day, no ten, no ten years. »
« People know what I did. First of all, as prime minister I know what I did in a PSD-PNL coalition-the Conservative Party, namely I took a country in crisis, a country with pensions and salaries cut, with 24% VAT and we managed to take care of people. In 2025, Romania goes in a totally wrong direction, a wrong direction for the citizens of the country, but also from outside, which is why their vote was for change on November 24. crisis.
« When you are the only party president in Romania who give you the salary of the public money of your party, it is easy to never be unemployed, » replied Crin Antonescu.
