Several USR members launch a new anti-Drula platform and prepare a candidate for party leadership. Among the signatories are the initiators of the electoral memorial with the increase of teachers’ salaries by 25%

Several USR representatives meet this weekend in Sibiu, at an event organized by the Courage for Romania team, a team that ran in 2021 in the elections for the National Bureau of USR PLUS, News.ro reports. During the event, the “Manifesto for Courage in USR PLUS” will be launched, a programmatic document through which the initiators say that they intend to reform the party. They announce that they are dissatisfied with the current leadership of the party, headed by Cătălin Drulă.

The meeting will be attended by founding members of the Curaj group, including Braşov Mayor Allen Coliban, MEP Nicu Ştefănuţă, deputies Mihai Poliţeanu and Cătălin Teniţă. Another member of this initiative is Senator Irineu Darău, a former candidate in the October 2021 elections for the party presidency, where he won 10%. The event will announce the Courage group’s approach to the party’s presidency.

Darău, Polițeanu and Teniță are among the initiators of a bill to increase by 25% the minimum wage of all basic salaries for pre-university education staff, without any performance requirements.

The initial members of the group are joined by other MEPs, deputies, senators, mayors, deputy mayors, local and county councilors of the party who sympathize with the team’s values ​​and are dissatisfied with the current leadership and leadership of the party, the statement said.

The Manifesto for Courage in USR PLUS will be presented and discussed at the event, a programmatic document by which the group aims to “reform the party, given that it lives at the risk of breaking and falling into irrelevance.” (Photo: Irineu Darău / G4Media)

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