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| MEDIA HEADLINES 10/12/2008 |
| (2008-12-10) |
| Last updated: 2008-12-11 15:50 EET |
What seemed to be the most unlikely coalition of all before the elections is now very close to being confirmed. The pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party (PDL) and the left-wing alliance of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Conservative Party (PC) are on the verge of finalising a governmental formula backed by about 70 per cent of the Parliament members. What do central newspapers believe about that?
The daily COTIDIANUL writes that in 2004 president Traian Basescu promised a crusade against the corrupt members of PSD once they were removed from power only to bless the marriage of his favourite party with the Social Democrats today. In turn, the daily ZIUA reviews the war of words waged over the years by the Liberal Democratic leader Emil Boc against his Social Democratic counterpart, Mircea Geoana. “For the past eight years, PSD has grown into the arch-enemy of PDL, and their enmity seemed impossible to overcome. But since everything is allowed in love and politics, in this case one step was enough to go from hatred to love,” writes the newspaper.
There seems to be no alternative for the PDL-PSD tandem, and the daily EVENIMENTUL ZILEI finds that what the two are actually seeking at this point is quote “a math formula for splitting the cake” unquote. The two parties are said to have negotiated over governmental positions, with the most heated debates sparked by the ministries with the largest budgets. But according to the daily ROMANIA LIBERA, there are some thorny issues in the relation between PSD and PDL: the justice system and how it should run, taxes and social issues.
And there is one more problem: the presence of the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) in the new governmental coalition. PDL had promised the ethnic Hungarians that they would be part of the new government, even before the talks with the Social Democrats, who vigorously oppose the idea. COTIDIANUL warns that quote “without UDMR in the opposition, there can be no motions to censure, and a PSD-PDL-UDMR majority would generate such imbalance between power and opposition in Parliament as never before in post-communist Romania.”
The reconstruction of the first post-communist political structure, the National Salvation Front, 20 years later, is also criticised by columnist Tia Serbanescu in the newspaper CURENTUL: quote “after 19 years of reforms, pluralism, multi-party system and all other transition buzz words, we're back to the state-party of the '90s. No more anti-corruption prosecution, no more reform of the justice system, no more access to former political police archives,” the commentator bitterly notes. But according to a poll commissioned by the newspaper JURNALUL NATIONAL, although the PSD – PC – PDL alliance may not be to everybody's liking, it is supported by most Romanians.
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