Friday, October 05, 2007
* ROMANIA's WONDERS *
Saligny Bridge – Cernavoda – It was inaugurated in 1895, after 5 Years of construction, and is constituted of two metallic bridges with an total length of 330 meters.
President is rude again
Romanian President Traian Basescu hasn't given up his dirty language. After "faggot", "pussy" and "filthy gypsy", yesterday he told a female journalist: "Of course. I'll come straight to your office and we do it".
President
Basescu has never made a secret of his disdain for journalists. The words quoted above are words he used to call some journalists. But there are also statements with indecent hints. Yesterday while in Branesti, Romania, the President was asked by a female journalist if he was making a statement in Bucharest on the failure on the bill against the government. And he answered: "Of course. I'll come straight to your office and we do it".
The President took various TV shows and interviews for opportunities to express his opinion on journalists: "The press is more hungry for shows than politicians are. Many a time journalists provoke the show or do away with it. I can give a list of 10 journalists who would starve to death, were there no politicians".
Liberal senator Puiu Hasotti: "Bad manners"
"To be ironical is one thing, typical of the clever people. But bad manners are something else. One mustn't mistake one for the other".
Democrat senator Radu Berceanu: "No sexual connotation"
"Some people prove a certain sexual call. I watched the recording on TV and I can only say the President gave a right answer to the journalist's question. It had no sexual connotation".
Lavinia Sandru, deputy from the National Initiative Party: "He is constant"
"He is constant. Because of such statements he has obviously lost women's support. The National Council against Discrimination should take action".
Political analyst Stelian Tanase: "A truck diver style"
"There can be two possible explanations. One is related to his temper and reminds about his noisy young years. The second one is that people like his truck driver style, part of electoral calculations. He releases anti-capitalist messages against the educated class, but people appreciate it. People don't pay attention to such speech and the impression left is that it is normal for journalists and educated people to be aggressed, even verbally. After offending the Antena 1 journalist in the referendum day, he popularity was not at all harmed".
Anca Hriban & Cristian Andrei
Ziua friday 5 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
President
Basescu has never made a secret of his disdain for journalists. The words quoted above are words he used to call some journalists. But there are also statements with indecent hints. Yesterday while in Branesti, Romania, the President was asked by a female journalist if he was making a statement in Bucharest on the failure on the bill against the government. And he answered: "Of course. I'll come straight to your office and we do it".The President took various TV shows and interviews for opportunities to express his opinion on journalists: "The press is more hungry for shows than politicians are. Many a time journalists provoke the show or do away with it. I can give a list of 10 journalists who would starve to death, were there no politicians".
Liberal senator Puiu Hasotti: "Bad manners"
"To be ironical is one thing, typical of the clever people. But bad manners are something else. One mustn't mistake one for the other".
Democrat senator Radu Berceanu: "No sexual connotation"
"Some people prove a certain sexual call. I watched the recording on TV and I can only say the President gave a right answer to the journalist's question. It had no sexual connotation".
Lavinia Sandru, deputy from the National Initiative Party: "He is constant"
"He is constant. Because of such statements he has obviously lost women's support. The National Council against Discrimination should take action".
Political analyst Stelian Tanase: "A truck diver style"
"There can be two possible explanations. One is related to his temper and reminds about his noisy young years. The second one is that people like his truck driver style, part of electoral calculations. He releases anti-capitalist messages against the educated class, but people appreciate it. People don't pay attention to such speech and the impression left is that it is normal for journalists and educated people to be aggressed, even verbally. After offending the Antena 1 journalist in the referendum day, he popularity was not at all harmed".
Anca Hriban & Cristian Andrei
Ziua friday 5 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Social-Democrats may reach government
The leaders of the PNL (National Liberal Party) have not denied the idea of allowing Mircea Geoana's Social-Democrats to join the government after the election of MEPs takes place. PNL sources say there will follow some changes in the government. The ministers likely to be replaced are foreign minister Adrian Cioroianu, education minister Cristian Adomnitei, Justice minister Tudor Chiuariu and Mihai Voicu, a minister in charge of relations with the Parliament.
The presence of some Social-Democrats in the government would mean reliable parliamentary support for the Tariceanu Cabinet and the end of the dispute on the state budget, the same sources claim.
The PNL deputy Emilian Francu admitted it yesterday that the Liberals were planning a "larger" government for after the election of MEPs. (...)
The Liberal PM
Calin Popescu-Tariceanu told the PNL leaders last Wednesday that he might agree to a "larger governing structure" after the election of MEPs, sources add. The PM is also claimed to have advised the Liberals to refrain from making official statements against the Social-Democrats and target Cotroceni Palace and Emil Boc's Democrats instead.
Razvan Gheorghe
Ziua friday 5 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
The presence of some Social-Democrats in the government would mean reliable parliamentary support for the Tariceanu Cabinet and the end of the dispute on the state budget, the same sources claim.
The PNL deputy Emilian Francu admitted it yesterday that the Liberals were planning a "larger" government for after the election of MEPs. (...)
The Liberal PM
Calin Popescu-Tariceanu told the PNL leaders last Wednesday that he might agree to a "larger governing structure" after the election of MEPs, sources add. The PM is also claimed to have advised the Liberals to refrain from making official statements against the Social-Democrats and target Cotroceni Palace and Emil Boc's Democrats instead.Razvan Gheorghe
Ziua friday 5 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
PSD leader wants to expel four members
Mircea Geoana, president of the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), is trying to save himself after the failure of the bill against the government. The PSD leaders decided yesterday to withdraw party support and open procedures to expel from the party the following members: 
Ion Solcanu, Razvan Theodorescu, Dan Mihalache and Alin Theodorescu. The four were officially reproached for their public statements against the PSD bill, but not for their ballots against the bill.
Mircea Geoana didn't dare criticize senator Ion Iliescu, an honorary president of the PSD, although yesterday the latter kept on accusing party heads and all the sanctions they set. Still Ion Iliescu's fate may be decided by the executive committee of the PSD due to meet next Saturday in Brasov. Party sources claim they may talk about expelling Ion Iliescu from the party. (...)
Roxana Andronic
Ziua friday 5 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Ion Solcanu, Razvan Theodorescu, Dan Mihalache and Alin Theodorescu. The four were officially reproached for their public statements against the PSD bill, but not for their ballots against the bill.
Mircea Geoana didn't dare criticize senator Ion Iliescu, an honorary president of the PSD, although yesterday the latter kept on accusing party heads and all the sanctions they set. Still Ion Iliescu's fate may be decided by the executive committee of the PSD due to meet next Saturday in Brasov. Party sources claim they may talk about expelling Ion Iliescu from the party. (...)Roxana Andronic
Ziua friday 5 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
Postponed final
The government, that is the winner in the history of bills against the government, gets nothings, whereas the losers, that is the President, the PD (Democrat Party) and the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), are trying hard to blame the failure on each other. The assault against the Liberals isn't over yet. The 2nd Tariceanu Cabinet can still be shaken at least twice before the mandate is up. What is next ?
While Mircea Geoana's credibility as a leader is harmed, the PSD may still be at advantage due to the defeat of the bill. It is so because public opinion has finally learned that the left, represented by the most important parliamentary party, has decided to use attributions and behave like a true opposition party. The this time serious attempt to overthrow the government is an argument for those longing for a change to head the PSD in elections. Such an advantage, paradoxically emerging from defeat, would have been even greater had Mircea Geoana not committed the mistake of involving his party in an alliance with the PD and with President Traian Basescu, an alliance which is abnormal. The distance between the Socialists and the Conservatives is maximum, at least in ideology terms. Unless everything is a joke and unless what we see is the show on the return to the mother ship, that is the Front for National Salvation.
There is another strange element. Had the bill passed, the great loser wouldn't have been the PNL (National Liberal Party), who would have got a good chance to get back their electorate from the opposition, but the PSD, who would have missed the time fit for an ascent that only a party in the opposition can get when its adversaries' mandate is over. The great winner wouldn't have been the PSD, but Traian Basescu. He would have helped the PD get power and leave both the Socialists and the Liberals behind.
Given such arguments, at the end of this bill soap opera Mircea Geoana looks discredited. His adversaries can now regroup and wait to proceed to the final offensive after the election of MEPs, in case the PSD's score is poor, which is likely. He has thus weakened the Liberals even more. He has consolidated the belief of his own electorate that to get power again may not be such a far away objective. But the written alliance with the PSD may be a weak point. The PD has demonized the Socialist left much too much. Collaboration with the PSD, whether in power, as written in the Protocol, or in the opposition, can't avoid negative effects and splits among the adepts. The PD leaders have once again proved their lack of moral sense.
But the President keeps silent. Except for offending a female journalist yesterday, he is refraining from statements on the failure of the bill, although he was extremely active on it. Why is Traian Basescu silent ? Out of political instinct. He is aware that, if he speaks up now, many things will be blamed on him. But if he does nothing, it is Mircea Geoana who will be blamed instead.
The 2nd Tariceanu Cabinet and the PNL in particular are in great difficulty. If they can be victorious when taking responsibility for the uninominal vote law to come into force in 2012 it is not known. It is neither known whether the budget passed or not.
There are at least two circumstances under which the 2nd Tariceanu Cabinet may collapse. If will happen unless the Liberals start thinking about a majority 3rd Tariceanu government. It would be achieved not due to the Liberals' president, because he has lost his call for negotiations. If such majority is established with the PSD, then Mircea Geoana shouldn't attend the talks. For all these reasons I think the new denouement will be not before, but after the election of MEPs.
Sorin Rosca Stanescu
Ziua friday 5 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
While Mircea Geoana's credibility as a leader is harmed, the PSD may still be at advantage due to the defeat of the bill. It is so because public opinion has finally learned that the left, represented by the most important parliamentary party, has decided to use attributions and behave like a true opposition party. The this time serious attempt to overthrow the government is an argument for those longing for a change to head the PSD in elections. Such an advantage, paradoxically emerging from defeat, would have been even greater had Mircea Geoana not committed the mistake of involving his party in an alliance with the PD and with President Traian Basescu, an alliance which is abnormal. The distance between the Socialists and the Conservatives is maximum, at least in ideology terms. Unless everything is a joke and unless what we see is the show on the return to the mother ship, that is the Front for National Salvation.
There is another strange element. Had the bill passed, the great loser wouldn't have been the PNL (National Liberal Party), who would have got a good chance to get back their electorate from the opposition, but the PSD, who would have missed the time fit for an ascent that only a party in the opposition can get when its adversaries' mandate is over. The great winner wouldn't have been the PSD, but Traian Basescu. He would have helped the PD get power and leave both the Socialists and the Liberals behind.
Given such arguments, at the end of this bill soap opera Mircea Geoana looks discredited. His adversaries can now regroup and wait to proceed to the final offensive after the election of MEPs, in case the PSD's score is poor, which is likely. He has thus weakened the Liberals even more. He has consolidated the belief of his own electorate that to get power again may not be such a far away objective. But the written alliance with the PSD may be a weak point. The PD has demonized the Socialist left much too much. Collaboration with the PSD, whether in power, as written in the Protocol, or in the opposition, can't avoid negative effects and splits among the adepts. The PD leaders have once again proved their lack of moral sense.
But the President keeps silent. Except for offending a female journalist yesterday, he is refraining from statements on the failure of the bill, although he was extremely active on it. Why is Traian Basescu silent ? Out of political instinct. He is aware that, if he speaks up now, many things will be blamed on him. But if he does nothing, it is Mircea Geoana who will be blamed instead.
The 2nd Tariceanu Cabinet and the PNL in particular are in great difficulty. If they can be victorious when taking responsibility for the uninominal vote law to come into force in 2012 it is not known. It is neither known whether the budget passed or not.
There are at least two circumstances under which the 2nd Tariceanu Cabinet may collapse. If will happen unless the Liberals start thinking about a majority 3rd Tariceanu government. It would be achieved not due to the Liberals' president, because he has lost his call for negotiations. If such majority is established with the PSD, then Mircea Geoana shouldn't attend the talks. For all these reasons I think the new denouement will be not before, but after the election of MEPs.
Sorin Rosca Stanescu
Ziua friday 5 october 2007 http://www.ziua.net/english
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