{"id":123,"date":"2024-05-17T06:15:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=123"},"modified":"2024-05-17T06:15:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:15:17","slug":"romanian-liberal-leader-nicolae-ciuca-confirms-plans-to-run-for-president-this-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Liberal leader Nicolae Ciuca confirms plans to run for president this autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Romania&#8217;s Liberal Party (PNL), <strong>Nicolae Ciuca<\/strong>, formerly prime minister and currently co-president of the country&#8217;s ruling coalition, confirmed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digi24.ro\/stiri\/actualitate\/politica\/nicolae-ciuca-sansa-pnl-este-sa-aiba-candidat-la-presedintia-romaniei-2794881?mc_cid=764a16acfd&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digi24<\/a> firm plans to run in the presidential elections this autumn. This should boost the party&#8217;s score in the parliamentary elections, he implied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our chance [for getting a good score in the parliamentary elections] is to have a candidate for the Presidency of Romania. As such, the National Liberal Party, at this moment, has a decision that we are consistent with, I don&#8217;t think that anything will change after [European and local elections on] June 9,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Social Democrat (PSD) prime minister Marcel Ciolacu, the other co-president of the ruling coalition, is already a firm presidential candidate as well.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of competing against his partner Ciolacu, Liberal leader Ciuca said previously that &#8220;we are going to competitors \u2013 not enemies,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antena3.ro\/politica\/nicolae-ciuca-lupta-marcel-ciolacu-alegeri-prezidentiale-competitori-nu-adversari-709485.html?mc_cid=764a16acfd&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antena 3<\/a> reported<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a matter of competition between the two parties. You saw that prime minister Marcel Ciolacu also confirmed that the government&#8217;s activity is running smoothly despite the electoral campaign, each of the ministers being responsible for the activity they carry out at the government level,&#8221;\u00a0Ciuca commented.<\/p>\n<p>No decision on joint lists for the parliamentary elections was taken, but after the partially failed initiative of joint lists in the local elections, such a scenario is highly unlikely.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos\/Sabin Cirstoveanu)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Romania&#8217;s Liberal Party (PNL), Nicolae Ciuca, formerly prime minister and currently co-president of the country&#8217;s ruling coalition, confirmed for Digi24 firm plans to run in the presidential elections this autumn. This should boost the party&#8217;s score in the parliamentary elections, he implied. &#8220;Our chance [for getting a good score in the parliamentary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}