{"id":6155,"date":"2025-08-01T12:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6155"},"modified":"2025-08-01T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T12:01:25","slug":"romanian-former-prime-minister-marcel-ciolacu-considering-candidacy-for-buzau-county-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6155","title":{"rendered":"Romanian former prime minister Marcel Ciolacu considering candidacy for Buz\u0103u County Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister and Social Democratic leader <strong>Marcel Ciolacu <\/strong>stated that he does not rule out a candidacy for the presidency of the Buz\u0103u County Council, after rumors to that end.<\/p>\n<p>PSD Buz\u0103u president Romeo Lungu had previously told journalists that discussions are underway for the former prime minister to run for the Buz\u0103u County Council leadership. \u201cIt would be a great honor for us, the organization, for former prime minister Marcel Ciolacu to be able to run on behalf of PSD for CJ Buz\u0103u,\u201d said the PSD Buz\u0103u president on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Ciolacu said that a candidacy \u201cis possible. I do not rule it out,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.g4media.ro\/exclusiv-marcel-ciolacu-despre-o-eventuala-candidatura-la-sefia-consiliului-judetean-buzau-posibil-nu-exclud.html?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=exclusiv-marcel-ciolacu-despre-o-eventuala-candidatura-la-sefia-consiliului-judetean-buzau-posibil-nu-exclud\">G4Media<\/a>. The former prime minister is currently a member of parliament elected on the PSD Buz\u0103u lists.<\/p>\n<p>The position became vacant after Lucian Roma\u0219canu, who won the 2024 elections, resigned to join the European Court of Auditors. Currently, the position of interim president of CJ Buz\u0103u is held by Social Democrat Adrian Petre, the vice president of the County Council. New elections will probably take place in September.<\/p>\n<p>According to G4Media.ro sources, current party leader and close ally of Marcel Ciolacu, Sorin Grindeanu, would not agree with Ciolacu&#8217;s candidacy, and is allegedly attempting to discourage him.<\/p>\n<p>Ciolacu resigned as head of the Social Democratic Party, the largest in the Romanian legislature, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/romania-presidential-elections-2025-exit-polls-show-bucharest-mayor-lead-both-candidates-claim\">presidential elections were won by the pro-EU independent mayor of Bucharest, Nicusor Dan<\/a>. The candidate backed by the former ruling PSD-PNL-UDMR alliance, Crin Antonescu, didn&#8217;t make it to the second round of the elections, and this led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/ciolacu-resigns-may-2025\">Marcel Ciolacu&#8217;s resignation <\/a>as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Ciolacu is, however, currently battling complaints about his tenure as prime minister. Vlad Gheorghe, formerly a member of the reformist opposition party Save Romania Union, or USR, and now leader of the extra-parliamentary opposition party DREPT, announced on Thursday, July 3, that he has filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/marcel-ciolacu-criminal-complaint-state-budget-deficit-july-2025\">criminal complaint<\/a> against former prime minister Marcel Ciolacu &#8220;for lying about the state of the economy and budget deficit.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Social Democrats are also part of the current government, but they denied responsibility for the deficit created by past administrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:radu@romania-insider.com\">radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Inquam Photos | Octav Ganea)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister and Social Democratic leader Marcel Ciolacu stated that he does not rule out a candidacy for the presidency of the Buz\u0103u County Council, after rumors to that end. PSD Buz\u0103u president Romeo Lungu had previously told journalists that discussions are underway for the former prime minister to run for the Buz\u0103u County [&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-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","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=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}