“In my view, the situation is more and more problematic for the prime minister, for the government and for the Social Democrat Party. But we must admit that Romania’s image has the most to suffer from this issue,” said Iohannis.
Ponta has been indicted on charges of accessory to tax evasion and money laundering and 17 counts of forgery, the country’s anticorruption department DNA said in a statement Thursday.
Anticorruption prosecutors said in June they were investigating Ponta on several counts of fraud relating to the defrauding of state energy companies Turceni and Rovinari back in 2007 and 2008.
Iohannis called on Ponta to resign from the head of the Cabinet back in June, but Ponta refused.