Romanian Pres Says Foreign Affairs Min Is Uneducated

Basescu said that he took several trips with Cioroianu and he can say that Cioroianu has a big education deficit. The head of state reiterated saying that Cioroianu’s mentioned education deficit is “huge.”

He explained that he had several talks with Cioroianu, which convinced him on the minister’s education.

"As soon as the president says something, he (Cioroianu t.n.) tries to prove how much he knows and he speaks ten times more than the president. Or, for example, I was at a meeting with Romanians, there was a questioned asked about the consulate issues, which are serious in Spain, like they are everywhere for that matter.

The foreign affairs minister is absolutely insolent when it comes to respecting the citizens, while the ministers are trying to defend it and moreover to build a clientele of ambassadors and consuls. Bu returning to the example, I ask the minister to clarify a matter and he, with the president by his side, ventures in a long speech that made me stop him. The president was there, he needed a short answer and that was that. The president is the interlocutor," Basescu said.

Asked if the Government should maintain Cioroianu in the position of foreign affairs minister, Basescu said that Cioroianu "is not a good foreign affairs minister.”