Ponta said he wanted to send his party colleagues a clear message that the important project for the presidential elections was not who would take office but the change of the “Basescu regime” and the subsequent actions.
"I just wanted to point out that this is important, not who occupies a certain position. I do not want to go out feet first from politics", Ponta said on the Special Edition show with Radu Tudor.
„ The idea I wanted to express is: attention to the project! The project is that by November we should defeat the regime that some of us have been fighting with for about nine and a half years. The second thing I wanted to convey is that it is not important whether Ponta is prime minister or president, but what we propose to do after wards. Well, Basescu went down. Do we mean to say that everything was perfect in Romania and that Basescu was the only problem? I believe not. I believe we should see what is it that’s not working in the state institutions, what institutions have become so transformed that people do not trust them, what do we do so that Romania should benefit from these moments of economic growth and what do we do with the economic growth”, the PSD leader said.
“I have sent another message, that I do not believe, even after the presidential elections, that all power should be in the hands of one man, the president. Everyday life, the pensions, the salaries are related to the prime minister. If we complained and we disliked that, then he should be a president arbitrator. Many colleagues were shocked when I told them that if I were President, the Prime Minister would not be from the PSD, for the simple reason that the world beyond November should be a different world from the world of Basescu in which there is only one thing: you're either with him or you're against him. If you're against him, you get hurt, you're in trouble, you've got no chance, "Ponta said.
"Those who know me well have noticed in the post a sense of great bitterness and disappointment. I believe that this project, which is a good project for Romania, it's more difficult to be achieved without Antonescu, without some of the liberal colleagues. But that's no reason to abandon it. Rather, it is a reason to believe in it, "Ponta said.
Regarding his political future, the Prime Minister said: "On December 21, 2014 I will be at the gate of the Cotroceni Palace, with many people out there, waiting for Mr. Basescu to come out to the delight of all. I do not know in what capacity I will be there. "
Asked if he will leave from politics this fall, Ponta replied: “I do not believe that I will have finished everything I have to do”
"But I really think that the minute the project I believed in fails or is achieved, I can and I must leave others too. Romania has not started and will not end with me", Victor Ponta added.