Nicolae Ciucă, the president of the PNL, admitted on Monday that he was a member of the Communist Party of Rome and said that “every officer of the Romanian Army was a member of the PCR” before the 1989 Revolution. He said “I have never been a communist”.
He answered on Antena 3 a question asked by Marcel Ciolacu, president of PSD, who referred to the statements in which Nicolae Ciucă identifies PSD-ists as “communists”.
“I was never a communist. Before 1989, every army officer was a member of the party, but I was never a communist,” said Ciucă. “Maybe Mr. Ciolacu expected me to answer something else. I won’t lie never, I’m not like them”, the PNL presidential candidate also said.
It is not clear whether Ciucă is referring to a legal duty that officials are accused of being members of the PCR or to practice. Communist state legislation did not require Army officers to be members of the Communist Party.
He also said that he was a member of the PCR since 1986, that is when he was 19 years old.
Ciucă came to the Antena 3 show with his wife and grandchildren.
When asked if he plagiarized in his doctoral thesis, Nicolae Ciucă said: “I did not plagiarize. I prepared my doctoral thesis according to the laws of 2000. It is something that is still being discussed. But I didn’t plagiarize. I presented in my doctoral thesis everything I had gathered as a professional experience in theaters of activity”.
Ciucă also spoke about the relationship with President Klaus Iohannis and said “We are two different people. I am a career military man and have been loyal all my life. I never criticized the leaders, let alone the presidents, even if sometimes I felt it was necessary. I won’t do it now either. I am convinced that they will come to vote for the representative of the PNL and then we will discuss a completely different mandate. Stop trying to yell at them.”
When asked if he would hire Iohannis as a consultant, he said: “I don’t think it will happen. And he had a job, like me. He was a teacher. So, as I know him, I don’t think he will be an adviser to the new president, whoever he is. He didn’t ask me for anything.”
Ciucă explained that during the 1989 Revolution, when the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu escaped by helicopter, he was acting as a guard at the army dormitory in Craiova, he was pulled out of the house- force He said that he was not on the street at all, during the Revolution of December 1989.
Nicolae Ciucă, in an election debate held by Antena 3, was asked what he did during the Revolution and he said: “I was an officer in the 121st Search Battalion Craiova, that is that’s why i said i implemented special missions. On the morning when Ceausescu left the CC Palace, I was on duty at the military dormitory in Craiova that was being built. When he left and flew in the helicopter, we were taken out of the barracks. In the evening of the same day, I went and did security at the development bank, and after that I returned to the barracks and did not leave it. I wasn’t on the street at all.”
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