Barna, reaction to the USR-PLUS candidacy scandal: The rules aren’t just great. Principles should not be used only when it suits you – Policy

Increasingly criticized for the absence of “heavy names” on parliamentary lists, Dan Barna claims that the selection rules are the same as in 2016 and that he has no way of intervening in the process at the branch level.

“The reproach that I have to face is that I did not violate the decision of the Arbitration Commission in the case of my colleague from the Diaspora and I did not modify that decision that binds us. (…) We must follow our rules. The rules aren’t just great. The principles should not be used only when they give you a good account, “said Dan Barna, in a speech at Digi 24.

The USR leader commented that the tensions in the branches represent “the natural noise of a functional democracy.”

“Fortunately or unfortunately, neither I nor Dacian Cioloș have the luxury, the opportunity to say that this is the list of USR-PLUS parliamentarians, we thought for a couple of days, we shook hands, these are the candidates. Our colleagues need to gain support and convince their branch colleagues. It is normal to have dissatisfaction, the vote of the branch is the one that decides. The method was known to all the candidates, it is exactly the procedure of 2016. No one has changed now. They knew they had to get the support of the subsidiary to receive a notice of integrity from the Refereeing Commission. The rules were known, “he said.

Barna also said that USR is not a party in which lists are made “from the pen” of the president and a small circle.

Included in the lists of ineligible MPs, several RSU MPs accused political games. These are, among others, Emanuel Ungureanu, Mihai Goțiu, Florina Presadă or Vlad Alexandrescu.