PSD's Dragnea: I strongly believe PSD-ALDE should have common candidate at presidential elections

Social Democratic Party (PSD) Chairman Liviu Dragnea reiterated on Sunday the idea that PSD and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) must have a sole candidate at next year's presidential elections. 

He told private TV broadcaster Antena 3 that he doesn't know who the candidate of this alliance will be, that "no name must be uttered." 

"I have said in CEx [the National Executive Committee, e.n.] and I will keep saying it, I am also saying it publicly, my opinion is that we should have a common candidate. I have the experience from USL [Social Liberal Union, e.n.]'s core. I was one of the four who built USL. When USL fell apart, somebody else won. I strongly believe there must be a common PSD-ALDE candidate, following that when we decide to make the announcements, we establish who has the greatest chance on behalf of these two. No name must be uttered now for a very simple reason: very well made analyses must be carried out," Liviu Dragnea affirmed. 

The PSD leader voiced the conviction that the current president, Klaus Iohannis, will not obtain a second mandate in 2019. 

"What I am absolutely convinced about is that Iohannis will no longer be Romania's president as of 2019. He hasn't done anything, man!" Dragnea underscored.