PNL slams PSD, blames them for government crisis and 'backstage games'

The National Liberal Party (PNL) has launched a sharp attack against the Social Democratic Party (PSD), accusing them of instigating the current political crisis. PNL claims the PSD violated the governing coalition's protocol and supported a no-confidence motion that led to the downfall of a government they describe as "stable and functional."

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PSD is the last party that can talk about stability or public responsibility. All of PSD, along with AUR, tore down a stable and functional government, not out of care for Romanians, but because that government had become a real threat to their networks of influence and privileges built over years of clientelism.

In a press release, PNL asserted that the PSD cannot claim responsibility or political stability, given their role, alongside AUR, in the government's dismissal. The liberal party alleges that the PSD's actions were driven by a desire to protect their influence and privileges built on clientelism, rather than concern for the Romanian people.

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PSD could not accept the idea of a prime minister not controlled by it. Instead of respecting the rules of an assumed coalition, it chose destabilization.

PNL further contends that the PSD broke the coalition agreement signed a year prior, deliberately causing the government's collapse before the agreed-upon prime ministerial rotation. They suggest the PSD could not tolerate a prime minister not under their control and sought to destabilize the coalition and weaken the PNL.

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PSD violated the governing protocol, signed including by Sorin Grindeanu, and caused the fall of the Government from which it was part, almost a year before the end of the first rotation agreed upon. Romania was pushed into a new political crisis at a time when it needed stability.

Dan Motreanu, PNL's first deputy leader, echoed these sentiments on Facebook, stating that the PSD violated the political agreement, including one signed by PSD leader Sorin Grindeanu. He criticized Grindeanu for allegedly preferring "backroom games" to find solutions after the government's fall, attempting to fracture the PNL and consolidate his own political standing. Motreanu lamented that these actions have pushed Romania into another political crisis when stability was needed.

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Instead of coming up with solutions, he preferred to throw Tomac and Veștea in front of him, to play backstage games, trying to break PNL and consolidate his own political position.