Asked to comment on the announcement of the PNL President related to the Liberal MEPs joining the EPP, Victor Ponta said: "A terrible lie. I remember, you have broadcast him a week ago, when he was telling Mr. Verhofstadt that they were Liberals and would always stay as such. I think that for Romania's image this is very bad. It is only in Romania that this happened twice, not once, for a party leader to take his party overnight and move it somewhere else. There is no other precedent to that. "
Ponta said that "people in Brussels, Strasbourg, will not talk about Antonescu, because they do not know who Antonescu is, but the fact that in Romania, for the second time, a party candidates in a way –the PD as socialist , PNL as liberal - and overnight, because leaders decide as such they transfer to another political family…”.
„You should know that traitors and party swingers are allowed into the European Parliament but they are just as despised there as they are scorned in Romania”, Ponta added.
PNL president, Crin Antonescu, announced that on the Monday party leadership meeting, he will propose the PNL MEPs to join the EPP in the European Parliament.