Basescu se medijima obratio kao "muž i otac, a ne predsjednik", nakon što je u jednom novinskom izvještaju optužen za dugovanja jednoj banci oproštena dok je on bio ministar transporta.
Basescu addressed the media as "a husband and father, not as president" after a newspaper report accused him of having debts to a bank forgiven while he was the minister of transportation.