PSD President Marcel Ciolacu has announced to his colleagues that he is considering resigning in the coming days, before the parliamentary elections on December 1, party sources tell Digi 24. while an Elena Lasconi – Călin Georgescu final in the second round of the presidential elections is taking shape more and more clearly.
UPDATE 11:55 Marcel Ciolacu is considering resigning from PSD leadership, according to some political sources, after he lost in the race for Cotroceni, being defeated by both the independent candidate Călin Georgescu and the USR candidate Elena Lasconi, according to the results after centralizing votes from 99.98% of precincts.
Asked on Friday if he would resign as head of the PSD, if he does not enter the second round of the presidential elections, Marcel Ciolacu replied: “Definitely, yes!” Categorical!”.
ORIGINAL NEWS: Marcel Ciolacu was overtaken by Elena Lasconi in the electoral race, after the exit polls ranked him, on Sunday, at the closing of the polls, in first place.
Since the change in ranking, Ciolacu has not made any public statement, being silent in the entire PSD camp.
If Marcel Ciolacu officially misses entering the second round, he can mark a negative first in the history of the largest party in the country: becoming the first candidate of the Social Democrats who does not reach the final for the position of president of the country.
On Monday morning, USR officially asked him to announce his defeat in the first round of the presidential election, stating that Elena Lasconi entered the second round, “with an advance of several thousand votes” in front of him.
Marcel Ciolacu is outranked by Elena Lasconi with almost 2,000 votes, at the time of publishing this news.
“It's a result that represents an earthquake first of all for the PSD. For them it is a negative historical event. It is for the first time, after the Revolution, that they fail to enter the second round”, stressed Digi 24 journalist Andreea Dumitrescu.
She specified that this happened “under the conditions in which they believed from the very beginning, before starting the campaign, and even more so during the campaign, that they had the ticket to the second round guaranteed. There were even discussions about shifting votes from the PSD to the candidate they would have liked in the second round.”
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