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| THE WEEK IN REVIEW 31/10/2008 |
| (2008-10-31) |
| Last updated: 2008-11-02 18:18 EET |
On the run down:
- The election campaign for the parliamentary election due on November 30th started on Friday.
- The Tariceanu government's decision to postpone the implementation of the 50% salary rise law has made the opposition Democratic Liberal Party file a censure motion.
- The Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation is celebrating its 80th anniversary.
October 31st is the first day of the parliamentary election campaign in Romania. There are approximately 3000 people running for the 452 parliament seats, through a ballot due to be held on November 30th and for the first time organised based on the uninominal voting system. Romanian citizens who will be abroad on election day, as well as the 450 thousand students currently living outside their places of residence will not be able to cast their votes, because, in keeping with the uninominal system, voters can only vote for the candidates in their own constituencies. The Greater Romania Party's attempt to cancel the decision under which the government established the uninominal colleges was submitted by the Court of Appeal to the Constitutional Court, after the magistrates admitted the unconstitutionality exception raised by the opposition party.
The emergency ordinance issued by the Tariceanu government to postpone by at least 6 months the implementation of the law on the teaching staff's 50% salary raise, which has made teachers threaten with an all out strike, has given the Liberal Democratic Party a very good excuse to file a censure motion and thus overshadow the 2009 draft budget, which has been just adopted by Government. The motion titled “Education stays, government leaves” was signed by 132 parliamentarians, representing most political parties. Its initiators say the government must be punished for 'defying the legislative and generating a large scale social crisis”. The main opposition party in Romania, the Social Democratic Party, which voted in favour of the law, reads the democrat-liberals' gesture as a scheme aimed at forcing a postponement of election day through a potential fall of the government. Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu believes that the motion is in reality a matter of serving party interests.
“As we all know, a motion is filed for a definite purpose. In this case, it's more than obvious that the purpose is serving party interests, because we are just one month ahead of elections. And this motion is not able to solve anything now.”
The motion is due to reach Parliament on November 4th, to be discussed on the 10th. Romanian President Traian Basescu has launched an appeal to trade unions to given up the strikes they've planned for this month:
“I am ready for talks that would assure trade unions that the next government will be open for discussions about reform in exchange for money. At the same time, I call on trade unions to give up their planned strikes in November, because they could affect a process that takes place every 4 years: the elections. I simply believe the timing is not right. I therefore call on trade unions to postpone their protests until December.”
The Romanian head of state's decision to promulgate the law on the 50% pay rise for the teaching staff has triggered a 15% drop in the transactions carried out at the Bucharest Stock Exchange, which was temporarily closed and negatively influenced the national currency. Later, the situation calmed down a little. On the other hand, though, Standard&Poor's has reduced Romania's rating, which translates into potentially more expensive foreign loans for this country. In exchange, the National Bank of Romania has announced the country is not in a situation in which it is forced to resort to loans from the International Monetary Fund. In Romania, the world financial crisis has started to slightly affect small and medium sized enterprises in particular, but also several big companies, which have already planned to downsize their activity. The General Manager of the Dacia Renault plants, Francois Fourmont, has announced that the plant in Mioveni will not be able to reach its target of 310 thousand cars produced this year. The president of the Car Makers' Association in Romania, Constantin Store, has stated that the hundreds of companies that make spare parts could be affected, because they are linked to the big world car makers as well.
On November 1st the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation celebrates its 80th anniversary. The events organised on this occasion, which have taken place the entire past week, have included concerts, award galas organised for the people that have had a say in the development of the public radio and round tables attended by radio specialists from all across Europe. The National Bank of Romania has launched an anniversary coin and a postal stamp devoted to this anniversary.
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