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| MEDIA HEADLINES 18/03/2008 |
| (2008-03-18) |
| Last updated: 2008-03-19 20:15 EET |
“It matters little that Liberalism is at odds with Socialism or Conservatism. As long as it secures political power, any alliance is welcome.” That is the conclusion reached by CURENTUL daily paper, after on Monday Liberal Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu announced that the organizations of the National Liberal Party, the PNL were free to decide, at a local level, which party they were to join forces with in the run-off, in order to get the best possible score in the forthcoming elections.
“I can see no ethical considerations liable to prevent the PNL from forming alliances,” Tariceanu said, recalling that their former ruling alliance partners, today's Democratic Liberal Party, “has removed from its statute their previously self-imposed ban on any alliance with the Social-Democratic Party, the PSD in opposition.”
Under the headline “Green light for alliances,” JURNALUL NATIONAL notes that quote “at a top party level, the relationship with the PSD is still a taboo topic,” unquote and the Liberals will publicly admit only their plans to discuss a prospective cooperation for this autumn's parliamentary elections with the tiny Conservative Party, which left the governmental team a while ago. In a move to make the best out of their chance to choose the boat they would sail on, the Social Democrats further fuel the uncertainty.
They have hailed the decision of the Liberals, which are still in power only thanks to their support, but raised the stake, announcing that they do not rule out the co-operation with the Democratic Liberals. The main opposition party has announced that no prohibitions will be imposed by the central leadership as regards local electoral alliances. “The conclusion of a top-level agreement is still on stand-by, for strategic reasons,” reads GANDUL daily paper, which also found perhaps the most tale-telling headline of the day: “PNL-PSD alliance, nearly baked.”
The paper says that actually, quote “the problem of the PNL as far as county-level alliances go, is precisely the Democratic Liberal Party. Liberal leaders fear that the Democratic Liberals will strike a deal with the Social Democrats, before the PNL and the PSD sign a cooperation agreement.” End of quote. ADEVARUL daily paper wagers on the Liberals. While “the PNL and the PSD woo each other, the Democratic Liberal Party sobs all alone,” writes the newspaper, which quotes the leader of the pro-presidential party PD-L, Emil Boc: “There will be no alliances with anybody.
In the local elections, we will be alone against all.” But newspapers report on agreements yet to be sealed by the PD-L and the PSD in major counties such as Ilfov or Constanta. For the time being, “it's smaller parties which take advantage of these feverish searches for possible alliances,” ZIARUL FINANCIAR notes. Quote again “The PNL firmly announced its merger with the People's Action, former president Emil Constantinescu's party, and it plans to carry on talks with the Conservative Party, which last week signed a parliamentary cooperation agreement with the PSD!”
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