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| POLITICAL PARTIES BRACE UP FOR UNINOMINAL VOTING 22/10/2008 |
| (2008-10-22) |
| Last updated: 2008-10-23 20:14 EET |
A new test, with unpredictable results for the Romanian political class. After 18 years of voting on party lists, on November the 30th Romanians will elect their representatives in the single-vote system. The ruling Liberal party (PNL) relies on the popularity of both well-known politicians, and artists. The Social Democrats (PSD) and Conservatives (PC) rehashed their pre-2004 marriage and sent their heavyweights to constituencies around the country.
The pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) has not abandoned its long-serving leaders, while also recruiting new and supposedly valuable candidates. These are the only three political parties which have runners in all uninominal constituencies. The nationalist Greater Romania Party (PRM) is promoting many women as candidates, while the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania also has candidates in most of the country, although it primarily targets the Hungarian community.
The media already question the political merits of certain candidates and the selection criteria used by political parties. The paper EVENIMENTUL ZILEI puts it bluntly: “Stars in Bucharest, fishy arrangements elsewhere in the country,” and notes that voters in Bucharest are to choose between older or newer politicians and a host of pop and media stars and businessmen. The newspaper COTIDIANUL ranks candidates and parties by more unusual criteria.
For instance, PDL tops the chart of political migrants, with 28 of its candidates having already been members of at least two other political parties. PSD and PNL have lavishly offered secretary and adviser positions to friends and acquaintances, whereas the centre-right nationalist New Generation Party appears to be ruled by leader George Becali’s various relatives.
There is also a top of the most exotic choices for Parliament candidates, which includes pop singers, bodyguards, actors and billionaires, and a top of recurrent candidates, who have never missed a parliamentary seat in 18 years. Some political analysts had long warned that parties were running short of candidates. Today, they argue that this motley crew of professionals, artists and show biz VIPs risks making the election race ridiculous and undermining what was intended to be a means to reform the Romanian political class.
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