Funeriu’s Dream: Presidential Final between Olympians


Daniel Funeriu, who announced that he will run as an independent candidate in the presidential elections in May, ruled out on Saturday the possibility of withdrawing from the electoral race and expressed his desire to face the capital’s mayor, Nicușor Dan, in the second round of voting .

I rule out any withdrawal negotiations because I don’t know what position. I rule this out. I exclude any withdrawal negotiations. I will go all the way with this candidacy. Because, as I was telling you, I think it’s time to put Romania’s big problems on the table and come up with solutions to these problems. I exclude any withdrawal negotiations for any other position. Excluded. Two, I go to the end, (…) to submit these ideas that I bring to public life, to submit them to the electorate’, Daniel Funeriu said, on Saturday, in a show on Digi 24.

He requested the Constitutional Court of Romania to let all the candidates who “do not have a decision in court” run, because the president of Romania must have “democratic legitimacy”.

“You can’t be president at the green table, like Kosovo wanted to beat Romania at football. The president, in order to lead the country, must have democratic legitimacy. And the votes that Georgescu took (…) were because he had no serious competition’, Funeriu opined.

Daniel Funeriu defined himself as a sovereignist candidate, in the spirit of the Constitution, and spoke out against ‘defective systems’ and for ‘correct systems’.

He claims that the ‘solutions’ he proposes differentiate him from Călin Georgescu.

“The solutions, on the one hand, and you will see my program and the people who are next to me, and something else differentiates me in an essential way – I am, without any doubt, an Atlanticist NATO, the European Union and my slogan will be and is” Facing west’. Something else differentiates me, not only from Mr. Georgescu, but, in my opinion, from the other candidates as well: the balance sheet. What did they do in public life’, added Funeriu.

Regarding the general mayor of the Capital, Nicușor Dan, who also expressed his intention to run for the presidency, Funeriu said that he wants a final with him.

I’ve known Nicușor Dan since 1987, when he was in the (Olympiad – no) mathematics batch, I was in the chemistry batch. (…) We used to meet at the camps. (…) It is an electoral competition in which we present ourselves to the Romanians, as I said, with everyone’s record, with everyone’s personality, with everyone’s team, with everyone’s project, and the electorate will decide. My objective is to reduce the chances of the other candidates to win the Presidency of Romania to zero. (…) Any candidate is free to join, to initiate a discussion to join my candidacy. I am ready to have discussions with any other candidates who are in my project’, said the former Minister of Education.

He stated that he has a project, a ‘remarkable’ team and that his funds for the electoral campaign will be known even during the electoral race.

“If the parties came up with a government in which there are people of the quality of those who joined me in this endeavor, Romania would do very well. Let me give you some examples: on Justice – Mr. Agustin Zegrean, former president of the Constitutional Court, everything means economy-taxes – Mr. Gabriel Biriș, health, an essential field, Radu Lupescu’, explained Funeriu.

Regarding Crin Antonescu, the candidate of the current parliamentary majority, Daniel Funeriu believes ‘that this coalition does not want to win the presidential elections by nominating Antonescu’.

“Antonescu is a man of his words, but a country is not governed by words. And by the way, it would be good to have the words in other languages ​​of international circulation as well. I saw that he doesn’t really have them,’ said Funeriu.

Source: www.cotidianul.ro