The PSD (Social-Democrat Party) bill against the government in power has opened new war between the Ion Iliescu, honorary president of the party, and Mircea Geoana, president of the PSD. The senator is angry because the latter commented that the controversial party members, those most fond of power, were afraid of the bill to come. Viorel Hrebenciuc on the one hand and Adrian Nastase together with Miron Mitrea on the other hand have joined the confrontation.
The issue at stake between the three was whether the bill against the government was a good idea or not, since the party lacked a clear strategy. Among growing dissatisfaction and reproaches, the PSD members were in endless meetings yesterday, but they proved fruitless anyway. The only certainty is that the bill got postponed for one more week, although it was supposed to reach the Parliament yesterday. The election of a new Patriarch was the latest reason the PSD leaders invoked.
Ion Iliescu was enraged: "I am an honorary president of the party, I haven't been informed about the bill, no one has asked for my opinion. I wasn't invited to attend the reunion in Bran. If you don't need me any more, I can leave". Then he was critical of Mircea Geoana because of what the latter had said in an interview one day before. In his 40-minute relentless speech Ion Iliescu commented that never before had there been a PSD president to make such statements and threat to expel those members against the bill idea. Party sources claim Mircea Geoana replied that by "controversial people" he hadn't meant PSD members.
But Ion Iliescu did even more than criticize the party president behind shut doors. He told journalists: "It is incautious of him to say such things. It is disloyal and it twists the meaning of dialogue.
And Mircea Geoana announced the bill was postponed in order not to coincide with the election of a new Patriarch. (...)
Roxana Andronic
Ziua Marti 11 Septembrie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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