Promise: In power in 10 days' time

Yesterday morning Mircea Geoana, a president of the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), asked his MPs to vote for the bill against the government, promising that the PSD would negotiate with the PD (Democrat Party) on a "multiple inspiration" government, party sources say. "The PSD may be in power in 10 days' time", he promised the PSD senators and deputies.
The PSD leader even claimed President Traian Basescu had been on TV to lobby for the bill after having talked to him in order to make preparations for the next step to be taken after the bill. They say Mircea Geoana told party officials: "I've just talked to the PM on the phone and he says he is making no deal with us for fear of Basescu". Therefore, he went on, the only solution left for the PSD is a national union government with the PD, a version negotiated last evening between the PSD and the PD. (...)
Nicolae Vacaroiu, a speaker for the Romanian Senate, claimed in his turn that there was an agreement between the PSD and the PD on the making of a "multiple inspiration" government. He said he didn't know about a written protocol or about the number of future ministers from the PD.
The PSD spokesman Cristian Diaconescu denied it at once, claiming there was no deal until the bill failed. Most Social-Democrats were claiming there was no protocol reached between the PSD and the PD and that Nicolae Vacaroiu probably wanted to scare the Liberals.

Roxana Andronic
Ziua thursday 4 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english