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New tensions have emerged between PNL and USR PLUS, at the Timiş county level, negotiations between the two sides are on hold for the second time, after Timişoara Mayor Dominic Fritz convened the City Council for Monday, and the agenda It is the election of deputy mayors. Alin Nica, president of PNL Timiş, says that the two parties did not negotiate these functions, while Mayor Dominic Fritz showed that he announced that he will call the meeting for the election of deputy mayors by validating the last two local councilors to replace those who retired , reports news.ro.
“I was surprised that the mayor has already called the meeting for Monday with the election of the deputy mayors on the agenda, when we did not finish the negotiations. I don’t know how to take this attitude, in full negotiation. I interpret that I do this from positions of strength. Where they won in the county, they (USR-PLUS- no) don’t want to be a majority with us, which seems strange to me. Our suspicions are that they prefer PSD or PRO Romania. Like in Lenauheim, where he supports a PRO Romania candidate, or in Giroc (where the mayor is a social democrat, no), where they agreed to vote for the USR deputy mayor. I gave them the opportunity to put vice mayors in Biled and Lenauheim, but they said they didn’t want to, according to another candidate from PRO Romania. They also rejected the offer to have two deputy mayors in Timisoara. I don’t know what their arguments are, but they seem to be very rigid on this matter. Like the last time they broke the protocol, it may be lack of experience or lack of patience. I see that it is not a singular issue where negotiations are blocked, it also happens in Alba and Vaslui ”, said on Friday Alin Nica, president of PNL Timiş, at a press conference.
The leader of the Liberals of Timiş declared that the proposal to elect the deputy mayors on Monday is incomprehensible.
“I am patient. But we will not give in to principles … I told them that we give them the maximum responsibility in Timişoara, we also vote for their projects. I don’t know, I’m waiting. It would have seemed normal to me that, if they had two deputy mayors, us , the PNL, we had two vice presidents in the Diputación ”, said Alin Nica.
In response, Timişoara Mayor Dominic Fritz wrote on his Facebook page that he is surprised by Alin Nica’s surprise, especially since he announced that by validating the last two local councilors, he will propose the election of deputy mayors.
“Alin Nica began to attack me in the press and on Facebook, although we had agreed to abstain from public statements until the end of the negotiations. He accuses me of convening the City Hall for Monday. I am surprised by Alin Nica’s surprise, because I told him with a subject and I preach that I will call a meeting when the mandates of the two deputies are definitively validated. No surprise! I have always played cards face to face, although some interpret it as a weakness. I believe that truth and honesty are the weapons more powerful, even in politics. Yes, I want to implement once what the people of Timisoara decided in the elections, almost 2 months ago, “wrote Fritz.
The mayor also shows that it is “completely irresponsible” to postpone the election of deputy mayors, when lately the rate of contagion by COVID-19 is increasing and there are other problems to be solved in the city.
“It is completely irresponsible to postpone the first meeting of the Timişoara Local Council and the election of deputy mayors when the infection rate in the last two weeks reached almost 8 per thousand in the city. It is not just Covid-19, there are still major emergencies to be solved, like Colterm, and the City Council has a duty to start offering people quality public services: cleaning, sidewalks, to restart the Cultural Capital project. The people of Timişoara are waiting for solutions and let’s get to work with everyone Engines running. The mayor’s office in a city like Timişoara cannot function with just one-third of the executive team provided by law, ”Fritz also wrote.
Dominic Fritz also wrote that it is incomprehensible why Alin Nica delays the election of deputy mayors and vice presidents of the CJ.
“On Wednesday afternoon, we met with PNL to continue negotiations in order to have stable majorities in Timişoara and Timiş. The vote on September 27 naturally leads to the solution of some right-wing majorities USR PLUS – PNL with a deputy mayor and a vice president in the Provincial Council of each party. It is the natural solution and it is incomprehensible that Alin Nica delays it with all kinds of political tricks when we are in a dramatic situation due to the epidemic and its effects on people’s lives. I don’t know what political calculations he made, but we cannot afford to keep a city and county in a political stalemate because a man has not decided, a month after the start of negotiations, what he and the acting president of the NLP want to do. . Timiş and president of the CJ, “Fritz also wrote.
In conclusion, the mayor called for the responsibility of all those elected in local and county government forums.
“I understand that it is an election campaign for parliament. But the locals have already left. The people of Timişoara and Timiş also voted for us to cooperate and find solutions. I call responsibility to all elected councilors in the Local Council of Timişoara, to all parties, NLP, PSD and Pro Romania, so that they start working together to get out of this crisis well, now ”, Dominic Fritz also wrote.
Dominic Fritz convened the plenary session of the Timişoara Local Council on Monday, and the election of the deputy mayors is on the agenda.
The meeting is announced even if USR PLUS has not reached an agreement with PNL to form a majority for the local government.
Negotiations initially stalled when the role talks were reached. Then USR broke protocol and Dominic Fritz announced that he is willing to make an alliance with PSD or PRO Romania, for the majority in the Local Council of Timişoara.
Later, the liberals and the USR resumed the negotiations, after a visit to Timişoara, by Prime Minister Ludovic Orban who announced that PNL will form an alliance with USR PLUS, in Timiş, but these negotiations remained without a concrete result for the moment.
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