Friday, November 23, 2007
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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”.
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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”.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
* DAILY NEWS *
EDITORIAL
Presidential boycott – Sorin Rosca Stanescu – Ziua – read here -
“Traian Basescu's insistence to boycott the uninominal elections in 2008 looks like stubbornness, although he keeps on saying he intends to promote the radical version of this system. How come I am accusing the head of state, given his official statements ?”.POLITICS
Constitutional Court to decide on government's uninominal vote system – Anca Hriban & Razvan Gheorghe – Ziua – read here -“In order to avoid promulgating the new electoral law that would make Sunday's referendum pointless, the President of Romania Traian Basescu invoked the unconstitutional nature of the law version promoted by the Tariceanu Cabinet in the Parliament“.
Referendum 'sabotaged' – Adrian Ilie – Ziua – read here -“According to the President of Romania Traian Basescu, the referendum meant to suspend him and the coming referendum on the uninominal vote system differ substantially in terms of the number of voting citizens required for the scrutiny to be validated. The President has argued: "If we read the law, we can see that the President might have been dismissed if 2 our of 3 Romanians voted for it. The referendum in May 19 would have been validated. Now when people are asked for opinions, the lawmakers have set a very difficult requirement: the presence of 9,1 million electors" ”.
Romanian PM: PNL-PSD government is mere speculation – Razvan Gheorghe – Ziua – read here -“Yesterday the Romanian PM Calin Popescu-Tariceanu avoided making comments on the information rumoring that after November 25 there would emerge a government of the PNL (National Liberal Party), the PSD (Social-Democrat Party), the PC (Conservative Party) and the UDMR (Democrat Union of Magyars in Romania). He argued he wouldn't comment on speculation coming from newspapers serving Presidency. "I am not a political analyst and I don't comment on such speculation", he pointed”.
'Dragon' Operation – Ziua – Ziua – read here -“In his article "44 Years of Kremlin Deception", published by ZIUA and the Human Events review simultaneously, General Pacepa denounces the KGB scenario on the assassination of Kennedy”.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
* DAILY NEWS *
EDITORIAL
The electoral bleeding – Sorin Rosca Stanescu – Ziua – read here -
“Never before in Romania's history has there been such a great number of citizens, actually millions, to leave the country and settle, most of them, in EU states so that they can work and get a new life. Or in other cases, to beg in streets and steal. We don't know whether this dramatic movement is reversible or not. Will they return ? How many of them will return ?”.POLITICS
Parliament to revise Criminal Procedure Code – R.I.P. – Ziua – read here -“The President of Romania Traian Basescu announced yesterday that he was demanding the Parliament to revise the modifications on the Criminal Procedure Code. He reproached the MPs for modifying the law draft so that public interest would follow after the interests of possible criminals“.
Business with Presidency – George Tarata & Marian Ghiteanu – Ziua – read here -“One branch of the Net Consulting, the company providing the soft equipment for Sunday's election of MEPs, got some hundreds of millions ROL from Presidency Administration”.
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Economy minister: 2008 will be the year of energy privatization – G.M. – Ziua – read here -“According to the Romanian economy minister Varujan Vosganian, 2008 will be the year of privatization in energy. Yesterday he argued: "2007 was the year of the energy strategy, of the energy market's development and modernization. 2008 must be the year of privatization" ”.
Most Powerful Romanians Top released – Roxana Andronic – Ziua – read here -“ "Banii nostri" (Our Money) review released a top of the most powerful businessmen and most influential people in Romania. President Traian Basescu is top of the list. Dinu Patriciu is no. 1 in the businessmen category and Sorin Ovidiu Vantu is rated as the most influential Romanian”.
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