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| The Governing Coalition Regroups 03/03/2011 |
| (2011-03-03) |
| Last updated: 2011-03-04 16:46 EET |
The governing parties in Romania have decided to stick together after the parliamentary opposition set up the Social Liberal Union in the run up to the 2012 elections. The leaders of the three parties that make up the governing coalition – the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania and the National Union for the Progress of Romania – were joined by the leader of the MPs representing the national minorities. They signed a co-operation agreement for two years in which they leave the room open for their partnership to continue after the elections.
The stated targets of the coalition are macro-economic stability, social development, the constitutional and administrative reform of the state and passing the electoral and minorities’ laws. The top priority, however, is to achieve economic growth in 2011 and in 2012. The Liberal Democratic Prime Minister Emil Boc believes this coalition deserves to reap the political fruit of the courageous austerity measures it took without giving in to populism. Romanians will start to feel the effects of economic recovery, the Prime Minister has promised.
Emil Boc: “We have saved the country from economic collapse, we’ve stabilized the economy and now we are concluding another agreement to ensure economic growth. Economic growth should bring benefits to Romanians, to all the citizens of this country irrespective of the ethnic group they belong to, because the most difficult part is already history”.
The number two in the government coalition, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania, has openly stated its priorities: passing the minorities law in 2011 and the law on the revision of development regions in 2012.
However, the new leader of the Union of Ethnic Hungarians, Kelemen Hunor, admits that economic recovery is a must: “We believe we should implement measures to ensure a stable, balanced and sustainable growth rate which will bring about an improvement in living standards for each and every citizen”.
While the other national minorities are also waiting for laws to benefit their communities, the leftist National Union for the Progress of Romania, which joined the right-wing coalition, is content with the planned measures aimed at increasing pensions, introducing a solidarity tax and verifying the assets of high-ranking dignitaries. The Opposition believes the co-operation agreement signed by the parties in the governing coalition is nothing but a barter through which the Liberal Democratic Party tries to maintain its leading position. In the first months of 2011, things have become somewhat clearer on the Romanian political scene. The situation of the economy in the next 12 months might influence decisively the fate of Romania’s political actors.
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