BUCHAREST, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila insisted on Thursday that she will not resign as long as she has the support from her party and from the ruling coalition.
"Under no circumstance will I resign, not as long as I have the support of the party's leader, as long as I am backed by the ruling coalition and I have your support," Dancila, who is also executive chair of the main ruling Social Democratic Party, told a meeting of the Social Democratic Organization of Pensioners.
"I am a responsible person...I have a responsibility to the citizens of Romania, to Romania, to keep the right track so as not to create instability in my country...I want to carry further this mandate we set off with," she added.
"The estimates of the National Institute of Statistics were released and I saw that we have economic growth, the fact that Romania is on a good path, and this good path Romania is moving along is backed by the governing program," said the first woman prime minister in Romania's history.
Obviously, her remarks were in response to the president's new criticism that the government and the ruling party "have no solution for a good, efficient ruling."
President Klaus Iohannis renewed his call for the resignation of the prime minister late Monday, stressing that "the resignation of Mrs. Dancila is imperative so as to make room to some responsible, competent persons."
The president announced late April that he withdrew confidence from the prime minister and publicly asked for her resignation, arguing that the latter "cannot handle the position of prime minister of Romania and is thus transforming the government in a weakness for Romania."
It was believed that Dancila's failure to inform the president about the government's plan to relocate the country's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and about her recent visit to Israel were the premise that President Iohannis made such an unexpected statement.
"I do not see any reason to resign as long as I have the support of the ruling coalition, as long as I think I have had good results in the three months," responded Dancila on the same day.
Disagreements have persisted for years between Romania's presidency and the ruling coalition led by the Social Democratic Party.