Romanian Prime Minister cycles for charity before speaking at conference in Bucharest

Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Ciolos accepted the invitation to peddle for a few minutes on a spinning bike in the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel in Bucharest before joining a conference where he was a speaker. Although he was suited up and in a hurry, Ciolos got up on the bike joining the other participants to the event, who were more properly dressed for cycling. He even went with a more difficult setting on his spinning bike. The Marriott Cycling Challenge is a yearly charity event in which the hotel’s team of volunteers invites business people, executives, and hotel guests to cycling sessions and yoga or Pilates classes and donate money for the SOS Satele Copiilor charity, which offers social services for children, and develops educational and counseling programs for children and families in need. After the cycling session, the Prime Minister went to open the Bucharest Forum conference organized by the Aspen Institute. In his speech, he made it more clearly that he wouldn’t join any political party or form one of his own before the parliamentary elections in December. “I will not run in the parliamentary elections this year and I will not join or create a political party because I want to focus my credibility, as much as I have, and my energy on a project that gives meaning to this stability and that can push things forward using all the positive, constructive, and proactive forces that wish to support it and get involved in it,” Ciolos said. He expressed his hope that there was “active live” ahead of him after the elections. The Prime Minister statement comes to end speculations about his possible political involvement, after President Klaus Iohannis asked him to state his sympathy to a political party if he wanted to continue as Prime Minister after the elections. After the President’s statement, Ciolos initially said that he would not run in the elections, but now he went even further by saying that he would not join a political party either. editor@romania-insider.com (Photo source: JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel‎ on Facebook)