Friday, November 23, 2007
* DAILY NEWS *
EDITORIAL
Victory and failure – Sorin Rosca Stanescu – Ziua – read here -
“Even if the Euro-elections lack direct effects on the great political confrontations to emerge once with the local and parliamentary elections, they still give some important clues, first of all of psychological nature. As seen, Romania's population obeys the "give it all to the winner" principle. It means a party winning a competition, no matter the type of competition, has got a call for scoring extra points later. This is why, although they had barely won elections, Traian Basescu and the "Truth and Justice" Alliance became beneficiaries of huge figures in terms of credibility right after taking over. The credibility points they got were significantly greater than those obtained in elections”.POLITICS
President to appoint SIE chief next Monday – Anca Hriban – Ziua – read here -“The President of Romania is to announce his choice for a new chief to rule the SIE (Foreign Intelligence Service) next Monday, one day after the Euro-election and the referendum take place. Although he has already decided, the President wouldn't give the name of the person to take the seat still empty after Claudiu Saftoiu's resignation“.
Vitiated scrutiny – Razvan Savaliuc – Ziua – read here -“The results of Sunday's election are very likely to be erroneous. In the NET Consulting system there are severe deficiencies allowing for manipulation to be interpreted as computer mistake”.
President reproaches government for "embarrassing trick" – Adrian Ilie – Ziua – read here -“The President of Romania Traian Basescu reproached the government yesterday for having included unconstitutional points in the uninominal vote law project deliberately. The head of state mentioned the existence of the extra national lists to be posted in polling stations, which he described as unconstitutional. He argued: "One can't vote for people whose names are written on the walls. It is a trap. They wanted someone to deny the law so that the implementation of the uninominal vote system would be postponed till after 2008" ”.
PM criticizes "kings of asphalt" – Razvan Gheorghe & Magda Severin – Ziua – read here -“The "kings of asphalt" protected by Cotroceni Palace monopolize all the building works in Bucharest and this is why traffic gets at a standstill. This is what the Romanian PM Calin Popescu-Tariceanu claimed yesterday, assailing the Romanian President Traian Basescu and the Democrat mayor of Bucharest, Adriean Videanu, one more time. The PM said it at the opening of the second car passage in Baneasa quarter”.
LATEST
How much are the Euro-deputies ? – R.I.P. – Ziua – read here -“According to the leaders of the PIN (National Initiative Party), Romania's 35 representatives to the Parliament of Europe would spend more than 82 million Euro in 5 years. The party demanded that each such Euro-deputy should provide "a public report" at the end of mandate. The party officials claimed yesterday that none of the 35 Euro-deputies had delivered such a report that far”.
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