President Klaus Johannis requested Prime Minister Victor Ponta to dismiss the Minister of Finance Darius Vâlcov. The president said that he would have expected Vâlcov to resign since the DNA prosecutors ordered the indictment.
President Klaus Iohannis conveyed Sunday a message on the ordering of the criminal prosecution against the Minister of Finance.
"Since the prosecutors of the National Anticorruption Directorate ordered the prosecution gainst the Minister of Finance, Mr. Darius Vâlcov, I would have expected Mr. Vâlcov to resign, understanding that this affects the activity and credibility of the government, which did not happened. In this situation, I am asking Prime Minister Victor Ponta to start the procedure for the removal from office of the Minister of Finance Mr. Darius Vâlcov " President Iohannis says in a press release by the Presidential Administration.
The Finance Minister Darius Vâlcov, is accused of influence peddling, being suspected that as mayor of Slatina, he had intervened in favor of a businessman in the award of contracts, the latter promising 20 percent of the amounts collected.
Prime Minister Victor Ponta wrote Saturday morning on Facebook, that Darius Vâlcov had and will continue to have "a decisive role" in the government's most important project this year: the Tax Code.