Saturday, June 16, 2007

Price of suspension





According to the statements the Executive made before the referendum for President Basescu's suspension, the scrutiny should have cost the State's budget about 60 million lei. Other funds were spent by the political parties and by the suspended president, in his quality of "independent candidate". The Romanian Court of Audit has established the amount was about 8 671 082 lei. With the only difference that Basescu had done significant savings from the donations received, as he spend about 40% of them. This is not because his staff wouldn't have known what to spend on the 1 289 906 lei received as a gift by natural and legal persons. It's because PD (the Democrat Party) has covered the weigh of the expenses, as their share represented about 56% of what all the political parties have spent together.

by Dan Coste
Ziua http://www.ziua.net/english

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