322 alliance works perfectly

- The failure of Romanian Democrats' bill against the government surprised no one. The document's fate was already sealed when it reached parliamentary debate.
As they were fully aware of the failure, the leaders of the PD (Democrat Party), Emil Boc one of them, preferred strolling along the Parliament lobbies pensively, while the opposite side was relaxed. Social-Democrat Viorel Hrebenciuc and Liberal Radu Stroe were in one corner, smilingly exchanging advice on how to decorate their houses. The Romanian PM was also smiling when reaching the Parliament and he said he didn't feel the slightest nervousness at the coming votes.
"Let's not resemble states like Venezuela and Cuba"
PM Tariceanu told the MPs that he was sad and ashamed of the reasons for such a bill against his Cabinet, within the background of a political crisis caused by "a character taking himself for God's envoy on earth", but embodying the beginning of dictatorship. He claimed it was President Basescu who destabilized state institutions and turned Presidency into a terminator, but not into a player. The PM opined the Parliament was to choose either responsibility or demagogy, either achievements or populism, either Romania's real problems or words.
He argued: "I have never wanted to be part of a fragile system, of one of the nations where political continuity depends on the mood of a character who takes himself for God's envoy on earth and forgets that Romanians voted for us to govern the country." He insisted he was taking pride in the government's accomplishments, although they were enjoying no great popularity and although the state of hospitals and of the health system wasn't satisfying. The PM scored: "I don't represent God, which would be blasphemy. I am just trying to find solutions and work to serve citizens. I have done my best to serve citizens and the country." And he had a message for the President and the initiators of the failing bill: "I will never agree to an institutional structure that will make Romania resemble states like Venezuela, Cuba or the ex Soviet republics. In democratic European states with Germany, France or Italy as political models, the distribution and use of power are balanced. Any other approach relying on demagogy and populism leads to dictatorship".
"We must stick together"
The Romanian PM reminded that the government forced to modify the components got a positive vote from the Parliament last spring in order to continue the activity. The PM asked the PM to leave petty interests aside and release a message of responsibility, maturity and solidarity in order to meet people's claims. Tariceanu mentioned his personal intention to leave politics aside for the time being and focus on his obligations as a PM. He confessed he had been wrong to focus on politics too much. He also claimed that the National Liberal Party he was a head of was going to promote a pattern of social European solidarity to help every citizen lead a decent life. He concluded: "The power is in citizens' hands, not in the pockets of some 2-3 chaps. We must stick together. Let's work and build a European Romania together".

by Raluca Papadopol, Adrian Ilie & Razvan Gheorghe
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