After the vote, former President Ion Iliescu, a member of the competing Social Democratic Party (PSD), unexpectedly issued a statement saying Antonescu is "intelligent, his speech is appealing and he is a decent man. … I wish he were a member of the PSD", said Iliescu.
Posle glasanja, bivši predsednik Jon Ilijesku, član protivničke Socijaldemokratske stranke (PSD), neočekivano je izdao saopštenje. Antonesku je "inteligentan, njegov govor je privlačan, a on je dobar čovek. … Voleo bih da je član PSD", rekao je Ilijesku.