Sorin Oprescu's arrest has triggered a tidal wave of reactions from Romanian politicians. President Klaus Iohannis said that Oprescu's preventive detention is a sad event but also a sign of the anticorruption struggle making headway. Traian Băsescu said he didn't expect Oprescu to be a bribe-taker. The interim president of the ruling Social Democratic Party, Liviu Dragnea, said he was sorry for the ordeal Oprescu was going through and voiced concern over the party's candidate in the forthcoming election for Mayor of Bucharest.