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| MEDIA HEADLINES 16/12/2008 |
| (2008-12-16) |
| Last updated: 2008-12-17 16:53 EET |
“Typically Romanian,” Curentul writes, reporting that on Monday, less than a week after being entrusted by president Traian Basescu with forming a new government, following the parliamentary elections of November 30th, Theodor Stolojan (a Euro-parliamentarian of the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party) decided to quit the job. Stolojan explained his unexpected gesture by the need for the Prime Minister position to be taken over by one of the signatories to the so-called “Partnership for Romania”, under which the Democratic Liberal Party leader Emil Boc and the leftist Social Democratic Party leader Mircea Geoana have agreed to form the future government coalition, with over 70% of seats in Parliament.
Whereas the daily paper Evenimentul Zilei only notes that Romania is the country with “two prime ministers in five days”, Ziua daily paper headlines “Pop! Comes Boc Too”, using a pun to describe the situation, amused by President Basescu’s emergency solution for the Prime Minister position, that is Emil Boc, Liberal Democratic Party leader and mayor of the city of Cluj-Napoca, also seen as the President’s most docile disciple.
The paper enumerates all possible reasons for Stolojan’s unexpected withdrawal, quote : “unofficially, rumors range from a serious disease affecting the former Prime Minister designate, Alzheimer possibly, to Brussels having refused his nomination.’’ End of quote. Other papers give it a more sobre approach, favouring a strictly political reason. So, Stolojan is said to have been, quote “discontent with not being able to handle the alliance with the social-democrats in a credible manner,” unquote, as he would have taken responsibility for ministers nominated not by himself but by parties, and whom he could not have replaced without the parties’ consent.
As former leader of the National Liberal Party and then joining the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party , as head an entire phalanx of national liberal dissidents, Stolojan wouldn’t have succeeded in getting positions for his people. Finally, by invoking the crisis that has gripped Romania, he would not have agreed to keep the populist promises the Social Democratic Party, the PSD and the Liberal Democratic Party, the PDL made to teachers, physicians and civil servants in the election campaign, and which he believed would have exhausted the budget. “He flees again”, Gandul writes, pointing out that in the fall of 2004 Stolojan withdrew from the presidential race invoking health reasons.
Presidential candidate of the then alliance made up of the National Liberal Party and the Democratic Party, Stolojan paved the way for Basescu, who eventually won the election. “ Is Stolojan Out? Never mind, I have Boc”, Cotidianul believes that that was the president’s judgement behind the move, and compares it to “an old Portuguese proverb:” if you don’t have a dog, hunt with the cat.” Less relaxed, the daily paper Romania Libera says that, quote “Stolojan’s unexpected withdrawal and Boc’s appointment as the future Prime Minister nourishes fears regarding political stability” and is a signal that “the PDL-PSD government circus has kicked off.”
Addressing President Basescu, whose battle against corruption and the PSD’s crypto-communist attitude has so far supported, the paper incriminates him: “You were wrong, Mr. President!. You did an injustice to those towards whom you had a moral responsibility and who did not deserve the ignominy of a PDL-PSD government; you did an injustice towards the PDL, whose central-right profile had just started to take shape; towards the intellectuals who have supported you despite your inconsistencies; towards the electorate hungry for justice who gave you and your party their votes.”
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