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The debacle – Sorin Rosca Stanescu – Ziua – read here -
style="font-weight:bold;">Romanians invalidated the referendum. Carelessness was their response to Traian Basescu's noisy and threatening statements, allegedly made on behalf of the very Romanians. The sanction set by people was more severe than I had expected. And Traian Basescu is now replying to it by a rough idea: the mechanism of the referendum and of elections in general is not good for it allows 20% of the population to govern for 80%. This is a boomerang idea, since he himself became a President of all Romanians due to votes from only 27% of citizens. Were he constant, he should go all the way, like he said he would, with the French pattern: resign at once, like Charles de Gaulle did, after the French had dismissed his referendum. If Traian Basescu's end is now starting, so to speak, how can this state of things change the results of the Euro-election ?”.

POLITICS

The clod effect – D.I. – Ziua – read here -
“The electorate scolded the President of Romania Traian Basescu by their disinterest in the referendum on the uninominal vote system. Romanians sanctioned the PD (Democrat Party) too, by crediting the Democrats less than opinion polls had estimated. The party headed by Emil Boc didn't even get 30% of the ballots. Therefore the President's pains to get the nation's "blessing" for the uninominal vote system failed. Even if the Democrats are fetching today a project on the uninominal vote based on the President's pattern, the head of state may have to promulgate the government's version, but only if the Constitutional Court decides in December 5 that the latter version is constitutional“.

PRM breaks to pieces – Razvan Gheorghe – Ziua – read here -
“Because he isn't brave enough to take his party's failure in last Sunday's Euro-elections on him, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a president of the PRM ("Greater Romania" Party), announced the party would step back from the Parliament. At the same time he asked Lucian Bolcas, the executive president of the party, to write him a letter begging him to change this decision, PRM sources claimed yesterday. And he did one more thing yesterday: after talking to Lucian Bolcas in private, he kicked deputy Daniela Buruianu out of the party, claiming she had made " awful statements" to the press”.

PIN president resigns – R.I.P. – Ziua – read here -
“The results of last Sunday's Euro-election in Romania have led to significant changes at the top level of parties who failed to get 5% in the scrutiny. Cozmin Gusa, a president of the PIN (New Initiative Party), resigned yesterday and he summoned the national assembly of the party for December 15 in order to arrange domestic elections”.

Conservatives' leader forgot his promise – Cristian Andrei – Ziua – read here -
“All the leaders of the PC (Conservative Party) were supposed to resign after the party's failure in Sunday's Euro-election and the leaders of those local branches who didn't even get 7% were to do the same. It was the PC president Dan Voiculescu who had said it just a week before”.

LATEST

President proposes Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu should head SIE – Ovidiu Banches – Ziua – read here -
“Yesterday before setting out for Spain the President of Romania Traian Basescu announced the presidents of both Parliament Chambers that his proposal was that Liberal Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu should be appointed a chief of the SIE (Foreign Intelligence Department)”.

Romanian President visits Spain – Adrian Ilie – Ziua – read here -
“The President of Romania Traian Basescu started his visit to Spain yesterday, when welcomed by King Juan Carlos of Bourbon and Queen Sophia to El Pardo Palace. He is also going to meet with the leaders of the Romanian community there”.