The PSD leader Victor Ponta said that the Prime Minister treated it like a compliment that President Traian Basescu feared him as a possible future president of the country, but conveyed to him: "You cannot get away from what you fear the most!"
„Mr. Băsescu’s statement, I took it as a compliment because it means I am the only one he is afraid of", PM Ponta said.
" The fact that I am the only one he is afraid of is a good thing, I am proud of it and my pledge is a quoatation of Traian Băsescu: You cannot get away from what you fear the most”, the prime minister added.