"Victor Ponta has to acknowledge that in the period from 1997-2001 he was an undercover officer of the Foreign Intelligence Service which also accounts for the big lap he made and how he was propelled from the District Prosecutor ‘s Office directly to the General Prosecutor office. This is a fact that I am ready to demonstrate ", president Traian Băsescu said Monday evening on Realitatea TV.
However, if the statement of President Traian Basescu is true, he must have long known about this, and still he appointed Victor Ponta prime minister twice.
Invited on the Daily Summary show, independent candidate in the presidential elections Gheorghe Funar asked rhetorically “why has he been quite about it so far?”, in reference to the president’s allegations.
Ciuvică: Băsescu has read nothing from the file, he kept handing them in to the talk show moderator
GIP President held that the president was even "more pathetic" than Robert Turcescu and stressed that Basescu did not read anything in support of his allegations, from the files he had with him.
"Meanwhile, I could see that Mr. Băsescu was even more pathetic than Turcescu.
Traian Băsescu has not read a single word from the files he had with him. He kept handing them in to the talk show moderator whom he made read from them ", Mugur Ciuvică, chairman of the Political Investigations Group (GIP) said Monday night on Antena 3.