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He also said that the President should play the role of a cohesion factor when the state institutions are so not pleased with things. Oprescu reminded that he stands not only for an independent president, but for an independent Premier and a government of technocrats too, for, in his opinion, the political parties do have such specialists they could offer support to.

‘That’s why we need a moratorium to ensure a political majority [...], with many saying it would only be temporary, but I have never seen anything more permanent than the temporary’, Oprescu said, referring to the idea of a semi-presidential republic.

In his opinion, ‘the political parties could name real technocrats, and not technocrats to only be manipulated by them, following that the minister to name their secretaries of state and that would be all’. ‘After that, we will eliminate the political elements from all the structures, for political parties should not be in school, should not be in the healthcare system, should not be in the forest sector or in the justice one’, Oprescu added.

He also said that the parties do know people of very good quality, with whom he could work very well, in case he would become President, while in the same time rejecting the idea of him being disadvantaged because of not having a political parties behind him to back his actions.
‘The moratorium would force the parties to support and respect an understanding. And if not, the President will intervene, so that to make stringent necessary matters be accepted by the Parliament.

The President should not tyrannize over Parliament, but it should discuss with it, for the Parliament behaves in the same manner in which the President himself/herself behaves’, Oprescu also said, while pleading for a two-chamber Parliament, which will maintain, in his opinion, ‘a certain equilibrium’. ‘A two-chamber Parliament represents an important thing, for it brings an equilibrium. I agree there should not be so many MPs, but I think two chambers mean a certain equilibrium [...] I believe in normality, in harmony’, Oprescu said.