Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Mircea Geoana bit Cotroceni bait

The PSD (Social-Democrat Party) wants a national union government, but there have been no talks with the PD (Democrat Party). The PSD president Mircea Geoana said it yesterday while talking to some retired Romanians in Bragadiru.
He claimed that, in case the bill against the government passed, there were three possibilities available: a left government, a right government or a multi-party one. He claimed he hadn't talked to the Democrats about it a day before when the new Patriarch had been enthroned.
He didn't even deny a possibility such as future government headed by the same PM, that is Liberal Calin-Popescu Tariceanu, but he argued that the present government was not an option. He commented he wasn't sure about a PSD-PD government to emerge and he neither denied the idea of a national union government to be grounded on this nucleus. He explained: "I can't picture a PSD-PD government. But if the PSD and the PD provide parliamentary support to a government made of members from more parties, this is a different thing".
Ion Iliescu: "A fanciful idea"
Ion Iliescu, an honorary president of the party, described Traian Basescu's idea about a national union government as "a fanciful, unrealistic idea lacking grounds".
Marko Bela, a leader of the Democrat Union of Magyars in Romania (UDMR), is against the idea too, claiming such a solution is needed only at times of crisis, which is not the case in today's Romania. He commented: "A national union government is needed at times of crisis when, regardless of the doctrine, one must give a hand and settle the crisis".

Roxana Andronic & Razvan Gheorghe
Ziua tuesday 2 octombrie 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english

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