Ciolacu, after Clotilde Armand threatened to send him “back to the pretzel”: “Get a good lawyer, because he broke the law”

Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu reacted, on Thursday, to the statements of the mayor of District 1, Clotilde Armand, telling her to get a good lawyer because she “obviously broke the law”.

Asked in a press conference in Timişoara how he comments on the statements made by the mayor of District 1, Clotilde Armand, when submitting his candidacy for a new mandate, the prime minister replied: “I am not commenting, she is a lady, first of all. In my opinion, he should get a good lawyer, because he clearly broke the law. To take money as a mayor, from European funds, I have never heard of it until Mrs. Clotilde”.

The Mayor of Sector 1, Clotilde Armand, told Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu on Thursday that she will not back down and will fight PSD-PNL and the “interest groups” around them.

“I have a message for Marcel Ciolacu: Marcel, look at us carefully: We are the ones who will send you back to the pretzel shop. I am waiting for you here. I stand unmoved in the face of the PNL-PSD lynchings paid for with public money and in the face of the mess you made against the residents of District 1. You can merge, you can bind yourself with chains, you can also put Klaus Iohannis as a candidate for District 1 , that we will not give you permission to steal this City Hall. Today, here, we are all united to fight with you and the interest groups around you, with the state institutions that you use for electoral purposes against those who still believe that this country is not you and your combiners”, he said the mayor of Sector 1.

Clotilde Armand, sent to court

Clotilde Armand was sent to court by the prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the District 1 Court in the case in which she is accused of appointing herself a project manager in an anti-corruption program.

The file started from a notification by the National Integrity Agency, which accused Clotilde Armand of appointing herself project manager and simultaneously exercising the position of mayor of Sector 1 and the remunerated position of project manager, thus not complying with the provisions of art. 87, para. (1), lit. k) from Law no. 161/2003.

The prosecutor’s office attached to the District 1 Court announced on Thursday the prosecution of the mayor of District 1, Clotilde Armand, for committing the crime of “using the position to favor certain persons”.

“From the evidentiary material administered in the case, it emerged that, during the period May 2022 – August 2022, as Mayor of Sector 1 in the Municipality of Bucharest, being in the exercise of his duties, as a result of the issuance of Disposition no. 715/18.02.2022 by which he was appointed manager of the project “Improving local administrative capacity regarding the development, implementation and promotion of anti-corruption measures”, MySMIS project code 152134, SIPOCA code 1151, based on a single criminal resolution, the defendant Armand Clotilde – Marie – Brigitte issued four orders that produced material benefits for himself, benefiting from increases in monthly allowances in the total amount of 18,720 lei (gross income)”, it is stated in a press release issued on Thursday by the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the 1st District Court.

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