The president of the PSD, Marcel Ciolacu, said, on Thursday, in Craiova, that the price of energy must enter a regulated system, be a single price, and the governors must come up with a solid package for vulnerable households, so that they can overcome the winter.

“I remain consistent and I believe that energy and the price of energy must enter a regulated system, be a single price. For vulnerable householders, we must come up with a solid package to overcome this winter and this period of crisis energy, where again it is not our fault that someone signed to close certain production capacities. It is not our fault that certain measures were not taken at the right time or, when prices were liberalized, Romanians were told that they would the price goes down. Look, it didn’t go down, it went up,” said Ciolacu.

At the same time, Ciolacu stated in Craiova that the PSD will never allow the Işalnița Thermal Power Plant to close and end up as scrap metal.

“I saw that there are all kinds of plans to switch to gas or photovoltaic generation. Very good, that’s a very good thing. I saw instead this morning that in Germany a wind farm built in 2001 is now underway of dismantling, precisely to expand the exploitation of the lignite mine in the area. I don’t know how good or bad the people in Germany are doing, but this means being dynamic, this means knowing what is happening in your country, this means having leaders who I make decisions in real time, I don’t make decisions based on slogans or what someone else asks us to do,” said the PSD president, according to Agerpres.

On the other hand, he referred to the law initiated by the PSD that allows the construction of small hydropower plants in protected areas, which USR attacked at the CCR.

“Those from the USR saw fit (…) to attack at the CCR the law that we passed through the Parliament, where the Romanian state has already made investments of over 100 million euros. (…) That’s it they can,” said Marcel Ciolacu, in front of more than 600 PSD members.