The recent appointments to top positions in important state agencies like the National Anticorruption Center, the Security and Intelligence Service or the Acting Prosecutor General are not based on any secret agreements between the bloc ACUM and the Party of Socialists, assures Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Năstase.
"Ruslan Flocea was the best candidate for the head of the National Anticorruption Center, that is why he won the contest. And the Security and Intelligence Service is currently a depoliticized structure”, declared Andrei Năstase during a talk show on TV8.
On the appointment of the Acting Prosecutor General, Năstase said that Dumitru Robu received all the recommendations from the Ministry of the Interior and was the preference of the 78 MPs who voted for him. "Dumitru Robu is neither of Dodon nor of Năstase. He is the product of the current conjunction. I trust that in the coming days he will prove that he is neither mine nor Dodon's, but a man determined to do the job”, the minister said.
Andrei Nastase also says that the three newly appointed state secretaries who also held positions during the Filip government are good professionals: "I cannot dismiss professional people just because they were part of one government or another."
According to Andrei Năstase, Dorin Purice is a professional and has the recommendations of all the institutions in which he has worked. He noted that of the five existing state secretaries, it was Purice who resigned in honor when the head of the ministry changed: "He told me he was forced to campaign for the Democratic Party." In the same context, Năstase said that the Ministry needed "continuity of processes and institutional memory" and that, unlike the former government, he did not put people from his party in government jobs. Andrei Năstase added that "time will come when Dorin Purice and other employees will be confronted with a fair judicial system."
The minister says that the CV of another state secretary, Ianuș Erhan, former deputy head of the Border Police, was passed through several filters: “He is a very schooled man from the inside the system. He was not a state secretary brought in from the party and put there”. About Gheorghe Balan, former deputy Prime Minister responsible for the reintegration of the Republic of Moldova, Andrei Năstase says that "he was a victim of the former government being dismissed because he opposed some concessions that were made to the separatists in Tiraspol".
According to the minister, the process of de-oligarchization does not take place as originally intended, because perceptions were different then. "When you are in the street, in opposition, it is one thing, but when you are in government, it is another. We in the street thought that there would be dragons to face, when in fact we have come to discover that there’s something far worse than dragons", said Năstase.
Andrei Năstase was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interiorin June, giving up the MP seat won in the February elections.
