PSD's Dragnea: Plan exists to overthrow current gov't by 1 January 2019

Chair of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, major at rule, ed. n.) Liviu Dragnea on Sunday night told the private TV broadcaster Antena3, that there is a plan for the Government to be overthrown until 1 January, because the takeover by Romania of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union would subsequently foil such a scenario. 

'Yes, absolutely yes [there is a plan to overthrow the gov't by 1 January, ed. n.]. It is see-through, one doesn't need much information, one only needs patience and put all of the puzzle pieces on the table, with declarations, actions, external statements. The taking over by Romania of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union means in fact the takeover by Mrs. Prime Minister Viorica Dancila and the ministers of the gov't, because - with all that pressure on Iohannis's behalf in Brussels - it has been decided that the Prime Minister and the Gov't are those who must manage all of these things, and not the President. With this gov't entering 2019, it cannot be overthrown any longer, it cannot be contested, the lie cannot be carried on indefinitely,' Dragnea stressed. 

He added that in 2019, when the presidential election is due, Klaus Iohannis would like to have 'certain services which would further play throughout Justice, so he could use them for blackmailing, making pressure, threatening' and protecting the people who help him. Dragnea said that in the following year the economic results of the governing will be 'more obvious'. 

Referring to the tension within the party these past days, Dragnea specified that they were not stirred by 'an electoral photo of a certain moment'. 

'It is, on the other hand, a round the clock race - now, and that is the reason why things such as this surface and will probably continue to; hopefully, they won't surface within the party, but it is not impossible - an around the clock race with this nasty system. Why's that? One of the laws of Justice is in force. I mean, the Supreme Court [High Court of Cassation and Justice, ed. n.] says it is not - a debatable thing, there, why, what are the reasons, why the only court of law in Romania does not enforce. Another law of the three laws of Justice - the contestation wasa rejected at the Constitutional Court and [President, ed. n.] Iohannis must sign it into law. Next week, I believe the CCR has to address the third law of justice, I don't know what they [the CCR, ed. n.] will do; then the Criminal Codes are to be sent back in Parliament. We are to kick off debates on the amendments to the national security Laws, a package of laws that is dearly hurting them, the secret services and Iohannis,' Dragnea affirmed. 

He specified that the amendments to the national security Laws will aim at bringing the services 'into their midst', so that 'they won't lose time in courts of law and prosecutors' offices. The Protocol and Guard Service (SPP, ed. n.) either, it won't stay in tactical fields, because Pahontu (SPP's head, ed. n.) has been frolicking for years now through courts of law and prosecutors' offices. We do have the Pension Law that must be adopted this autumn, the Lobby Law..." 
'And, should all this happens and we are still ruling at 15 December, they will have totally lost the game,' Dragnea stressed.