EMM News Explorer: Crin Antonescu

[ said]: Certainly, we have pledged a calendar whose optimum form would mean the finalization by the Senate of the amendment bill by the end of this parliamentary session, or, unless possible, in an extraordinary session,

nineoclock 13-MAY-13

[-said]: We won’t be locked in the power-opposition, majority – minority logic, but we’ll seek the broadest consensus possible, politically and publicly speaking,

nineoclock 08-MAY-13

[-stated]: It’s unacceptable for a PNL member to be a member of, to support, to associate himself in any way with a group of people whose founding and fundamental document is completely against PNL, not even against the PNL President as usual,

nineoclock 22-APR-13

[-mentioned]: What I find essential in this moment of the debate and in the future, until regionalisation becomes reality step by step, is to overcome the two topics which seem more interesting now, at least for the media, i.e. how many regions there will exist and what seat towns they will have, on one hand; on the other, who will lead these regions, how their leader will be elected, appointed, nominated or designated, and what attributions they will have,

nineoclock 17-APR-13

[-said]: As far as PNL is concerned, out MPs did not attend the first discussion, only the last, we had several rounds of talks in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, at the level of the party leadership. It is a big law, with a broad legal reach, with many nuances, all these have been discussed and what I would like to say today, in the conclusion of talks and one or two days before the government takes responsibility, is that we all support the premier in this variant and in this taking of responsibility,

nineoclock 15-APR-13

[answered:]: I believe that neither the embassy of Great Britain, nor the embassy of the United States were directly involved in this process, like the European Commission was, for instance. I am curious about what the European Commission says now, because this is where long and complicate procedures were painstakingly conceived – I avoid saying concocted. The fact that the two very preoccupied embassies – and I am glad because they are preoccupied by who leads the prosecutor’s office in Romania – hailed this th

nineoclock 10-APR-13

[-stated]: If someone believes that my political decisions are influenced by this (the presidential bid), he is wrong. If I did not consider breaking up USL now, I never thought – believe it or not – about the Presidency next year and a half, because there is a whole era until then. See the dynamics of these days, I thought about the expectations of these people (the USL electorate),

nineoclock 04-APR-13

[-said]: As Premier Ponta persists on the formula he insisted upon, in the proposals of nominations which he made in agreement with Traian Basescu, PNL no longer takes responsibility for the MJ and for everything that results,

nineoclock 04-APR-13

[-mentioned]: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is an institution that hugely helped us during these 20 years and also helped the Parliament of Romania, the democratic institutions of Romania to form and consolidate after 1990 and you, Mr. President, are a major friend of Romania, a person that personally and wholeheartedly was involved in supporting the cause of freedom and democracy in Romania,

nineoclock 26-FEB-13

[-said]: My mission is to represent liberal values. I’ve already proved that millions of people are behind me, so I do not want to disappoint them in the coming presidential elections,

balkaninsight 25-FEB-13

[-added]: If I don’t win I will step down from the helm of PNL and so this would be the last PNL Congress I took part in as party president,

nineoclock 24-FEB-13

[pointed out:]: There is no limit to the number of terms, but I had in mind the fact that from now until the next Congress, the one in 2016, there will be the presidential elections of 2014, and if I win them I will become Romania’s President, so I won’t be able to be a PNL member let alone PNL President.

nineoclock 24-FEB-13

[said:]: It’s the last time I’m taking part in a Congress, at least as PNL President.

nineoclock 24-FEB-13

[-concluded]: I want this for me, for you, for all of us, for all Romania. So help us God! We will be where we want to be, where it’s our right to be if we have the strength to believe, to fight, to always respect our history, traditions, values,

nineoclock 24-FEB-13

[-stated]: I am, even this time, nervous, not only out of gratitude for the confidence shown, but especially at the thought that this is the last time I am taking part in one of our party’s Congress, at least as PNL President,

nineoclock 24-FEB-13

[-said]: We have a programme, we have a leadership, we have a strategy. I believe almost all things that had to be said and that could be said were said, almost all things have to be done. I hope starting tomorrow we will set out with more confidence, strength, in order to do them,

nineoclock 24-FEB-13

[-told]: Gigi, I won’t flatter you, but you have the abilities of a leader, you can’t just be a foot soldier, in PNL you can’t have a leadership position. If you find it suitable for you, you stay as a plain member of PNL,

nineoclock 08-FEB-13

[-stated]: legal cases – editor’s note),

nineoclock 04-FEB-13

[-said]: It’s very clear for anyone that a group of around three people (…) is trying to kick up a row ahead of the congress meeting,

nineoclock 04-FEB-13

[answered:]: We are not taking this into account. Our point of view, as well as the Premier’s point of view, is very clear, and I’ll tell Mr. Basescu what I have been telling him for years: if someone with legal problems, involved in legal cases, surveillance, investigations, should resign, I don’t understand why he has delayed his own resignation for several years (hinting to the

nineoclock 04-FEB-13

[-stated]: It’s just a gesture to cause a row where possible (…). It’s very clear for anyone that a group of around three people (referring to Chiliman, Tariceanu and Moisescu – editor’s note) that have ended up sending even their mayoralty director as PNL’s representative in debates (…) is trying to kick up a row ahead of the congress meeting. These are people that permanently attack, people that are not even answered in kind but that play the victim,

nineoclock 04-FEB-13

[-said]: If some people imagine that these are blanks on paper, which we fill like in crosswords as we please, they are very wrong. (…) This decision can only be changed by those who made it, meaning the congresses of the three parties, because of reasons pertaining to the designated candidate,

nineoclock 28-JAN-13

[-stated]: You are either in collusion with the party’s opponents or you’ve reached such a situation that you no longer realize you’re used by them. I don’t know what’s worse, both are unacceptable,

nineoclock 27-JAN-13

[-stated]: The fact that I am against the exclusion at this time does not mean I do not think that the Statute was gravely infringed, but it’s one of the reasons for which I asked the convening of this Congress, in order to clear these things up and in the hope that by clearing them up we will also avoid exclusions that nobody wants and that are not desirable in any party,

nineoclock 27-JAN-13

[-said]: We, liberals, participated in governments with the Christian-Democrats, with the PD (…), the Liberals were always sad because others had more. The Social-Democrats generally are less communicative, but you will see how unhappy some PSD members are because there are others, too, in the government. If Ponta understands that he is the premier of a grand coalition government, not as president of PSD, then PSD will have enough electoral profit if things go well with the government. The topics of the government

nineoclock 20-JAN-13

[-said]: Everybody would have expected the reason for the rejection to be the negative opinion given by CSM (on November 22; the opinion is consultative and the president has the final say) rather than <<the lack of transparency of the selection process>>,

nineoclock 20-JAN-13

[-said]: The temptation of establishing a chief, excessively speculated by Traian Basescu, must be solved by us. If we make a parliamentary republic, then all the power, all of it will go to the prime minister. Only then will appear the risk of concentrating the power,

nineoclock 20-JAN-13

[said:]: I regret and find embarrassing the fact that people whose name is invoked by Basescu’s propaganda at every step and by master Chiliman recently, do not go public to say <<Yes, this is true: I have the same opinions as Chiliman, or no, this is wrong and Chiliman was struck by some form of amnesia, confusion or something else.

nineoclock 14-JAN-13

[-explained]: If the whole party decided to suspend Traian Basescu last summer and if the whole party has a political stance and votes some decisions, and Andrei Chiliman comes during the campaign and says, precisely like our political opponents, that this was against the rule of law in Romania, that we are an anti-west party, which is precisely the aberrant discourse of Monica Macovei, Traian Basescu, Elena Udrea, I consider this as a betrayal,

nineoclock 14-JAN-13

[-said]: I believe that what is worth of note during this extremely agitated, political turmoil, period, the Senate, in general, made proof of special balance, and to a great extent succeeded, despite the general tumult, in showing a democratic spirit, of civility and political dialogue between various groups of the power and the opposition, even in the most difficult moments,

nineoclock 12-DEC-12

[ said]: We hope to get two-thirds of seats and rule without help from any other party. We... hope to have enough seats to rule by ourselves,

balkaninsight 11-DEC-12

[ said]: It is indeed the highest score an alliance has achieved from 1990 until today – but this vote is more than that. It’s a victory against the Basescu regime along with all it has meant,

euronews 10-DEC-12

[-told]: Spain was, and is, an exceptional model of success in terms of European integration, starting from the internal modernisation of the Kingdom and the national plans that were enforced,

nineoclock 01-NOV-12

[-added]: We are very interested by your legislation on the right to work in Spain. We hope that the labour restrictions for Romanian citizens will be lifted at the end of this year,

nineoclock 01-NOV-12

[-stated]: First of all: I won’t regret it. Second of all: I haven’t removed anyone from the party,

nineoclock 22-OCT-12

[-told]: Gigi Becali has his own electorate ...and we have decided we can fight together in this election,

iol 19-OCT-12

[said:]: it is not true that Traian Basescu and his party stand together with Europe at the Parliament Palace [the venue of the EPP congress], because when the Romanian people is symbolically here, one cannot be in Europe without your people. In Europe, without your people, you're nobody or a servant

hotnews 18-OCT-12

[-mentioned]: I was pleasantly impressed, because of late I got used to very biased political statements of European counterparts or officials,

nineoclock 13-SEP-12

[-stated]: The activity, documents and ideas of your commission have been a very important and very interesting subject for a long time. It so happens that your institution and its recommendations were often invoked recently, during a politically tense period in Romania,

nineoclock 11-SEP-12

[-added]: There was talk of serious but non-existing realities, unacceptable things were said about the Romanian government and that doesn’t necessarily have to do with excellent communication on Mr. Basescu’s or PDL’s behalf, it has to do with other things,

nineoclock 10-SEP-12

[-also stated that]: serious disinformation about the situation in Romania, starting with the coup d’etat, the Parliamentary putsch idea.

nineoclock 10-SEP-12

[pointed out that:]: there would be nothing to win by saying everything had to do with PR.

nineoclock 10-SEP-12

[-stated]: I had no way to assess. I received some information on normal issues, most of them concerning foreign affairs. I don’t know whether they got involved or not. I didn’t have a piece of evidence that would have allowed me to state that or to accuse them of being involved,

nineoclock 10-SEP-12

[-stated]: Our PR was poor. Diplomacy, in the sense of channels of communication, was very poor and this problem is the thing we have to take responsibility for,

nineoclock 10-SEP-12

[-mentioned]: I have no problem at all; I’m patiently waiting for any proposal,

nineoclock 26-AUG-12

[-said]: Simply and anecdotally said, yes. I was requested but one thing, which I did not agree to. To bring Basescu back. (…) This was all,

nineoclock 26-AUG-12

[-added]: Depoliticizing the judiciary, although clamored, is still to be finalized,

nineoclock 23-AUG-12

[-stated]: It’s a very important moment, not just for the Ponta Government but for the whole Romanian society. (…) I thank and congratulate Premier Victor Ponta for his proposal (Pivniceru as Justice Minister – editor’s note) and Mrs. Pivniceru for the courage to take this responsibility in the context in which we have been talking for years about an independent and credible judiciary,

nineoclock 23-AUG-12

[-said]: Yes, I did say that if Traian Băsescu isn't dismissed, I will retire from politics

bursa 22-AUG-12

[-said]: We do respect the court decision and Traian Basescu will again become a president. But he returns as an illegitimate president,

news 21-AUG-12

[ said]: I took note of the court decision and as previously announced, we will obey the decision,

deutschewelle 21-AUG-12

[-said]: Romanian citizens choose the way they defend their rights by civil means,

nineoclock 21-AUG-12

[-said]: Today, from a bureaucratic perspective, the Basescu regime is forcing victory, the return of a man who lost legitimacy for the majority of Romanians

hotnews 21-AUG-12

[-said]: For us Traian Băsescu is no longer a president. He is the president of Romania in the legal sense. But the decision of the Constitutional Court has been unfair,

euractiv 21-AUG-12

[ added]: We can not be endlessly ignored, we can not be endlessly trampled,

antena3 21-AUG-12

[-said]: with a friendly eye

nineoclock 19-AUG-12

[-said]: Mr. Traian Basescu is feeling unwell and he won’t be back to Cotroceni,

nineoclock 19-AUG-12

[-asked]: When Mr. Gitenstein suggested to Mr. Philip Gordon, who came here for a visit, a list of interlocutors including the Institute of Christian Policies and Practices, or whatever, which operates close to the PDL <Democratic Liberal Party>, among the Romanian civil society, yet not Pro Democratia or Transparency International (…) when somebody as former president of Romania Emil Constantinescu, a president to whom the United States shouldn’t have an unpleasant memory about (…) cannot find a place on

nineoclock 19-AUG-12

[-said]: Obviously, I would acknowledge the <referendum invalidation> decision, legally speaking, since politically, I would never accept it,

nineoclock 19-AUG-12

[ said]: Basescu's chances of returning to Cotroceni are minimal, I believe in a correct verdict of the Constitutional Court,

antena3 18-AUG-12

[ said]: Nobody will accept it,

antena3 18-AUG-12

[-said]: Given the scale of investigations and the unprecedented methods (taking people out of church) – such a raid of prosecutors has been never seen since the forced collectivisation of the ‘50s – given the fact that the same Prosecutors’ Office did almost nothing in other elections, and by no means at such scale, I think it is necessary and I ask the general prosecutor to provide public explanations about the nature, means and purposes of these probes. (…) The general prosecutor must provide clarificat

nineoclock 16-AUG-12

[-said]: (…) I publicly demand the president of the CSM to call a meeting of this institution, so we can discuss and clarify these matters, and also on this occasion we might talk about an answer to having a stable minister of Justice,

nineoclock 16-AUG-12

[ said]: The discussions were not at all formal. I told Philip Gordon everything he needed and everything he wanted to know. I want to say that his visit was welcome,

antena3 14-AUG-12

[-said]: We talked about stability and legitimacy. In this sense we warned about something that seems to be of little concern for foreign observers, the number, the number of votes expressed at the referendum. I gave a brief history of the figure, the number of votes with which presidents of Romania have been elected presidents since 1990, I have shown that none of the presidents were elected with such a large number of votes, 7.4 million now expressed the president's impeachment, that this figure is very significan

antena3 14-AUG-12

[-said]: My message is: do not be afraid people, Romania is not nobody's country, it can not be ruled by Traian Basescu, in a gangster manner, with threats, insults and intimidation. We are here to fight and we shall fight until the end for law abiding, for civil rights and for your vote

antena3 08-AUG-12

[-said]: State institutions must not allow themselves being intimidated, and I refer mainly to the government, which left the impression – I must say it – of certain timidity and hesitation (…) The government must take all measures so its institutions are not intimidated, and to protect all the citizens of the country against the threats and intimidations used by a Traian Basescu that placed himself outside the law and against the responsibility implied by his official statute. This is what I think the governm

nineoclock 08-AUG-12

[-stated]: Someone (Basescu) who is already on the edge of the law and who attempts a conspiracy against democracy and the rule of law, this is what we see. (…) Nobody – person or institution – that represent democracy in this world, from the US ambassador to the president of the Venice Commission, has the right to participate in this conspiracy which Traian Basescu and his people are organising against the rule of law in Romania,

nineoclock 08-AUG-12

[-also insisted]: coincidence between the decision of prosecutors and the orders given by Traian Basescu.

nineoclock 08-AUG-12

[-said]: I don’t think that this sad show I was mentioning should be taken into consideration by the members of the government and by us, all. The respective person, who obviously enjoys complete media attention and maybe even more, acts of an unacceptable way – insults, threats, attempts to intimidate the Constitutional Court, the members of the government, the institutions and people that have the official quality in the Romanian state to act and answer the Constitutional Court,

nineoclock 07-AUG-12

[-explained]: I’m acting president, interim president as a result of a special political situation. I believe we can talk about a political crisis, but first of all this crisis does not influence the negotiations because the government has a political programme, has commitments and vision, and the political crisis, which I hope will be over by the end of this month, does not influence, does not affect these talks,

nineoclock 07-AUG-12

[-responded]: I have no explanation for such a statement,

setimes 07-AUG-12

[-said]: I wholeheartedly agree that Mr. Rus had all reasons to resign. I noticed the skidding related to my name, because I never was among those who made public comments against Mr. Rus. This is about the capacity of the prime minister and of the ruling coalition to operate these replacements

nineoclock 07-AUG-12

[ said]: It comes as a surprise that my name was quoted,

xinhuanet_en 06-AUG-12

[answered:]: That’s what it looks like. I’m saying this because I see it.

nineoclock 05-AUG-12

[-stated]: I’m interested for these institutions to work at the Presidential Palace not in order for them to work for me, to tell me who Mr. Basescu meets. Let’s see what can be done for this country’s affected relations and image, because they play a role or could play a role. Let’s see what happens – because you ask me of a certain service (SIE – editor’s note) – we have to understand nevertheless the mechanism through which Romania’s image was destroyed in just two weeks through an organized, coor

nineoclock 05-AUG-12

[-stated]: In what concerns the General Prosecutor, and the head of the DNA who was mentioned in international communiqués, I want to point out once again: the General Prosecutor is appointed at the Justice Minister’s proposal, with the approval and evaluation of the Superior Magistracy Council (CSM) and, at the end of this circuit, with the President’s approval. So the President is not the one who initiates this process, the President is not the one who finds the person, so to speak, the President has the last s

nineoclock 05-AUG-12

[-stated]: I was discrete since I did not budge a single Presidential aide from there. However, since we are now dealing with a new interim president, with a month and a half in which the presidential institution nevertheless has to work, it seemed elementary to me to dismiss Mr. Basescu’s aides – between us, it would have seemed elementary for them to resign because if Mr. Traian Basescu returns he obviously can bring them back,

nineoclock 05-AUG-12

[-stated]: Hundreds of thousands of people, every evening and in almost every important city, gave these signs, in January-February, that the solution consisted of early parliamentary and presidential elections. We wouldn’t have reached this point. Now, if this referendum hadn’t taken place, if this suspension hadn’t taken place, in the autumn we would have risked seeing violent protests,

nineoclock 05-AUG-12

[ said]: There will be a final ruling of the court and we will know whether or not there will be an early presidential election, on September 12. This does not mean that there will be instability in Romania until then,

antena3 03-AUG-12

[ said]: The Court has a heavy burden on its shoulders and it shouldn’t be that way. In fact, faced with the result of the referendum, Traian Basescu should have resigned,

euronews 02-AUG-12

[ said]: Basically, President Basescu has been impeached. He should resign,

gulf 01-AUG-12

[-added]: In legal terms, we expect and respect the verdict of the Constitutional Court,

nineoclock 01-AUG-12

[-stated]: What I know are the moral obligations of Traian Basescu towards the citizens of Romania, I know how he infringed them, but I will not elaborate. As for USL, I am absolutely sure that nobody has any kind of obligation – moral or of another kind – towards Traian Basescu,

nineoclock 01-AUG-12

[-stated]: I know what I say and, in the 20 years since I am in politics, I have always known and meant what I stated. I already made a firm decision, in conformity with all the principles I observed and observe in politics, and I will announce it at the right time,

nineoclock 01-AUG-12

[-said]: These (the official results of the referendum) are almost subsidiary, compared to the big message the Romanian people gave today (Sunday), that it is a people which has nothing more to learn, from anybody, in terms of democratic elections and democratic participation,

nineoclock 31-JUL-12

[-told]: We will wait for the official results of the Central Electoral Bureau in a democratic and civilized manner. We will wait for and we will all respect the decision of the Constitutional Court,

china 31-JUL-12

[-told]: We will wait for the official results of the Central Electoral Bureau in a democratic and civilised manner. We will wait for and we will all respect the decision of the Constitutional Court,

chinadaily 30-JUL-12

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