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| The dilemmas of the vote by mail 24/05/2011 |
| (2011-05-24) |
| Last updated: 2011-05-25 12:47 EET |
Romanian Minister Teodor Baconschi’s performance seems to have become a favourite topic of discussion. After the Senate has debated a motion filed against him by the opposition, the Chamber of Deputies wants to investigate him.
In a pre-election year in Bucharest foreign policy has become a domestic policy issue. On Monday, the Senate rejected with 60 votes for and 67 against the motion filed by the social – liberal opposition against Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi. Through the voice of Liberal Senator Raymond Luca, the initiators of the motion accuse the lack of effectiveness of the Romanian diplomacy:
“Throughout his term in office, Teodor Baconschi failed in successfully representing Romania at European and international level. He damaged the prestige of the institution he runs through his embarrassing political moves and irresponsible statements. The Baconschi period is a period of involution in the Romanian foreign policy.”
The Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Party have also said that Baconschi has politicized the ministry and rendered Romania’s relations with its European partners rather tense. In retort, the Foreign Minister said:
“The document abounds in abusive interpretations, lies and even calumnious statements. It is a mix of petty political declarations and major topical foreign policy issues that should have been approached with more responsibility. We must all admit that only one sentence in your motion, gentlemen, is true, and that is true because it is axiomatic. Indeed, Romania’s foreign policy is not that of the Liberal Democratic Party, it is Romania’s.”
Quite predictably, political pundits have read the results of the voting in relation to the domestic situation. They say that, despite speculations regarding its starting to lose members, the coalition made up of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania and the National Union for the Progress of Romania, maintains its numerical advantage over the opposition.
The Chamber of Deputies has rejected, by vote, the opposition's request to set up a committee to inquire into the Foreign Minister’s statements regarding the law on postal voting. At the latest Liberal Democratic Party’s Convention, Baconschi had stated that the law would bring liberal – democrats one million votes from the Diaspora. Traditional supporters of president Traian Basescu and the Liberal Democratic Party, Romanians living in the Diaspora have not, however, been a bracket to really count on at the polls.
Out of the several millions living outside Romania’s borders, only some one hundred thousand usually cast their votes, also because of the long distances they have to travel to get to the Romanian embassies or consular offices where they are supposed to vote.
That is why, for the rulers, the law settles the issue of the lack of sufficient polling stations abroad. For the opposition, however, the initiative is not the recognition of the Romanian Diaspora’s rights, but an attempt to facilitate rigging for the benefit of the Liberal Democratic Party.
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