{"id":1688,"date":"2024-09-16T09:13:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T09:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2024-09-16T09:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T09:13:27","slug":"nicolae-ciuca-confirmed-as-romanian-liberals-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"Nicolae Ciuc\u0103 confirmed as Romanian Liberals\u2019 presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council of the Romanian Liberal Party (PNL) officially designated its leader, <strong>Nicolae Ciuc\u0103<\/strong>, as the presidential candidate. The decision was taken unanimously, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digi24.ro\/stiri\/actualitate\/politica\/congres-pnl-fara-emotii-pentru-nicolae-ciuca-liberalii-urmeaza-sa-l-valideze-candidat-la-prezidentiale-2930317\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digi24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am the candidate of the National Liberal Party in the presidential election, and I feel it is my most important mission so far,\u201d Ciuc\u0103 said.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that the first option of the PNL after the elections is an alliance with the right-wing parties and not with the current ally, the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He acknowledged that the decision to form a ruling coalition with the Social Democrats has caused distrust among the Liberals voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked a lot with people, and I can tell you that those who look at us with distrust tell me the main reason is the political collaboration with the PSD. We talked about it, we did not doubt that we would lose electoral points. We would have wanted to form a right-wing coalition, but political immaturity made it impossible to continue the alliance,\u201d Nicolae Ciuc\u0103 said.<\/p>\n<p>Marcel Ciolacu, the Social Democrat ruling partner of Nicolae Ciuc\u0103, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/ciolacu-confirmed-psd-leader-presidential-candidate-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is also running for president<\/a>. Other candidates are USR president Elena Lasconi, former NATO deputy secretary general Mircea Geoan\u0103, and AUR president George Simion.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential elections will be held on November 24 and December 8.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his presidential campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/romanian-nicolae-ciuca-launches-book-sept-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PNL leader Nicolae Ciuc\u0103 recently released a book <\/a>titled In the Service of the Country. The volume, available for download for free, recounts both the personal and professional life of the general-turned-politician and is meant to publicize his candidacy for the presidency.<\/p>\n\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source:\u00a0<em>Inquam Photos \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquamphotos.com\/users\/georgecalin\">George\u00a0C\u0103lin<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Council of the Romanian Liberal Party (PNL) officially designated its leader, Nicolae Ciuc\u0103, as the presidential candidate. The decision was taken unanimously, according to Digi24. \u201cI am the candidate of the National Liberal Party in the presidential election, and I feel it is my most important mission so far,\u201d Ciuc\u0103 said. He also [&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-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","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=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}