"It was a strategy error, including the timing thereof. Determinant appears to have been Antonescu's personal interest, related to the presidential candidacy. A fact proven also by the attempt to "move” the party into the EPP by changing its ideology. Just as Basescu did in 2005. Moreover, recent information on negotiations with Traian Basescu, unrefuted by any party, should not be ignored", commented Adrian Nastase on the Liberals' decision to quit the government.
Nastase said about Crin Antonescu that he was one of Basescu’s election artisans back in the 2004 presidential elections. According to Nastase, therefore “he shares the responsibility for a decade of chaos, strife, repeated crises, poverty and international isolation that affected the life of the Romanians".
"He tries to justify the theory of “choosing the lesser evil. "Through the current options, however, he proves that he has chosen the “evil ", simply. Concerning " the manipulation" of 2004, I remind him that he was accomplice to Basescu’s manipulation "tears" and of the allegations of electoral fraud, proven false, in the presidential elections ", Adrian Nastase said.