PNL Prahova announced on Wednesday through a press release that Iulian Dumitrescu submitted his candidacy for a new mandate as president of the County Council, as president of PNL Prahova. Iulian Dumitrescu is prosecuted by the DNA in a corruption case and announced in February that he was retiring from the position of president of the Prahova county organization.
Other politicians with legal problems are also running on the PNL lists. The most famous cases are in Iași, where the liberal candidates for the positions of mayor and president of the County Council, Mihai Chirica and Costel Alexe, are sent to court in corruption cases.
“The decision was taken following discussions with the mayors and other local elected officials who asked Dumitrescu to ensure continuity at the level of the county administration in the context of projects of over three billion euros from European funds that CJ Prahova managed to attract in his mandate”, the PNL Prahova press release states.
“It was not a simple decision, but, out of respect for the people of Prahoven and for the local elected officials, I decided to run for a new mandate and to provide continuity at the level of the County Council. Together with these people – mayors, vice mayors, local and county councilors -, we managed to do in 3 years in Prahova what was not done in 30 years before. We have contracts with European funds of over three billion euros. We started extremely necessary infrastructure projects: the belts from Comarnic, Azuga – Buşteni, Mizil, Păuleşti, Câmpina. We modernized the County Hospital and today we have the most modern operating theater in Romania. We started works to expand the sewerage and water supply network in 42 localities of Prahova County, worth almost one billion euros. We managed to build the gas network in the towns of Valea Slănicului and the connection to the gas main follows. We equip schools in 59 localities with state-of-the-art digital equipment, furniture, teaching materials and specialized equipment. They are concrete, punctual and measurable things. They are not words, they are not promises, but realities that give the measure of the things I have done for Prahova as the president of the County Council”, said Iulian Dumitrescu, quoted in the PNL Prahova press release.
In relation to the criminal case against him, Iulian Dumitrescu declared that he has the legal and constitutional right to run for office, collaborates with the criminal investigation institutions, considers himself innocent and expects a quick solution from the Justice.
“Regarding the criminal case in which I was involved, I want to tell the citizens clearly: I am innocent, I trust the Justice, I know that the truth will come out and that justice will be done,” he said.
Iulian Dumitrescu is being prosecuted under judicial control by the DNA for allegedly receiving a bribe of 16 million lei out of 47 million requested for a contract with public money.
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