AUR sends a former General Secretary of the Government to run for the headship of one of the poorest counties in Romania

Sorin Chelmu, former Secretary General of the Government of Romania, will run for the position of president of the Vaslui County Council.

Originally from Vaslui county, Chelmu presented his candidacy in a press conference held yesterday, March 28. The most important problem of the county, in the candidate’s view, would be the increasing cost that Vaslui residents have to bear for water and sewer services, Vremea Nouă writes.

“I come after more than 30 years of experience in public administration, at the highest level, to my connections that I had and still have with Brussels. In the pre-accession period and in the post-accession period, we contributed to the construction of large projects for Romania, and here I would only mention the payment agencies, financing, guarantee, counter-guarantee mechanisms in agriculture, where the results can be seen today. We are the only segment of the Romanian economy where the absorption of European funds is 100%.

Results that I am proud of, obtained of course in a team, as here, in Vaslui, we will probably need a team, a strong team, which knows how to create the mechanisms, on the other hand, how to attract the funds and from where to attract them, so as to shorten that chain of weaknesses and excessively large bureaucracy, which have blocked Vaslui for the last 34 years. I don’t want to make a black book of the administration of the last 34 years, because the people of Vaslui see and feel it on their own skin. Instead, as I promised, I will make a very clear analysis of what is happening and I will also come up with solutions to the problems that exist today”, said the AUR candidate.